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Luis Dubuc, aka The Secret Handshake, has released one of this year's biggest surprises. Coming from virtually nowhere, this collection of songs was recorded by Dubuc in his own home studio. If you are looking for an album that proves you can make a great album without a big budget and a big name studio then here it is. While Justin Timberlake and Beyonce spend millions just on mixing their albums, they could have been spending their money better by buying Dubuc's songs. The Secret Handshake is a clever mix of Emo, Electronica, and Hip-Hop (musically, there is no rapping on the album) relying primarily on the electronic aspect but including minimal piano, drums, and natural vocals.
Duran Duran surprisingly launched a successful reunion a couple of years ago featuring all their original members. Perhaps even more shocking is the fact that the album that came from it, Astronaut, was every bit as good, if not better, than the band's best works (which for me include the wedding album, Notorious, and Seven and the Ragged Tiger). After the dust settled from the reunion guitarist Andy Taylor once again exited the band leaving them a four piece on the experimental Red Carpet Massacre.
Chase This Light, the latest offering from the now comfortably major label Jimmy Eat World, has its work cut out for it. After the stellar self-titled album (aka Bleed American) put the band on the mainstream map, they lost a lot of steam with the more experimental Futures. If you have hesitated to give this album a chance, let me encourage you to get back in the water. It's safe again. Jimmy Eat World are back to making big, anthemic emotional statements that will surely please any fan of self-titled or Clarity.
Queensryche, a hard rock band renowned for such intelligent works as Operation: Mindcrime and Empire and such classic metal albums as The Warning and Promised Land, floundered throughout much of the late nineties and early new millennium. The band has experienced a revival since switching labels to Rhino Records a few years ago and the latest in their barrage of new albums is entitled Take Cover. This album of cover songs follows the warmly received Operation: Mindcrime II and, yet another, "best of" album.
Billy Talent has been around the block a time or two now, having received a big push with their debut self-titled album and critical acclaim for their creatively titled (Billy Talent II) sophomore effort. They're a punk infused rock band that gets pretty easily lost in the crowd, constantly swaying back and forth between enjoyable and annoying. This is the kind of band that it's easy to have a love/hate relationship with. Now comes 666: Live, which walks on both ends of the street.
For a time it seemed as if Progressive Rock had gone the way of the dinosaur - after all, they had a lot in common: both are big, intimidating, and kind of scary. Still, there are bands valiantly keeping the dream alive, not the least of which is Glass Hammer, who deliver some pretty impressive prog on their new release, Culture of Ascent. After nine studio albums and one live release, Steve Babb (bass guitar, various keyboards, programming and backing vocals) and Fred Schendel (assorted keyboards, synths, programming, arrangements, acoustic guitar and backing vocals) have once again assembled some familiar band-mates plus two new additions, and a few notable guests to prove that there's still plenty of life in the Prog-rock genre.
Remix CDs are like movies; it's very rare that the sequel's better or even just as good as the first. Each uses the same theme and content, adding and taking away here and there, to tell the main message a different way. It's an attempt to further a piece of art, but often times it fails. Michael Brook's Bell Curve avoids this trend and accomplishes more than simply being the companion piece to Brook's 2006 work RockPaperScissors it is meant to be.
Seattle underground horror rockers Schoolyard Heroes return with their third record, Abominations, their first for the Stolen Transmission label. If you have never heard Schoolyard Heroes before and you love bands like The Misfits, Blitzkid, and others that focus their attention on horror movies than you should not miss this album because it's probably the best the genre has offered since Misfit's American Psycho record.
While some of us aren't quite old enough to remember, there was a time when variety shows were all the rage. And when the holidays rolled in, the variety show was given an additional boost of steam as the producers pulled out all the stops to make things special. There were also special "specials," if you will, featuring performers who stepped into the television limelight to broadcast their own brand of holiday well wishing. The Man in Black, Johnny Cash himself, was one such artist to take such a path with two consecutive Christmas specials in 1976 and 1977. In conjunction with the Country Music Hall of Fame, the Shout Factory has endeavored to bring these classic specials to life once again.
When Paul McCartney released his sophomore solo project, Ram, in 1971, the title referred to an animal with big horns, and ‘memory' was a mental process that would become less reliable as a person got a bit older.