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In a scene increasingly littered with mallpunk junk, California's 1208 is a rock & roll life raft. Pumping out music with an edge and an intensity sorely lacking in the genre these days, this South Bay-reared quartet effortlessly teeters between melo... read more
In Gustave Charpentier's famous opera, "Louise," the title character leaves her home in a small French town, seeking love and happiness in the city of Paris. It is the simple story of a girl becoming a young woman and the difficulties she encounters ... read more
Trading Snakeoil For Wolftickets is Gary Jules' second album. It gives space to Gary's ghostly timbre, his delicate guitar playing and his vivid stories about HIS Los Angeles. Not the LA of Hollywood and shine and glitz and emptiness, but the downt... read more
For New Found Glory, it's not just a matter of having a chance banner year or fluke popular album that has kept the act at the forefront of the pop-rock scene. It's more like a banner career - built through the efforts, determination and talent withi... read more
Rap is still with us. While the past has brought with it sometimes disturbing, bland or questionably talented rappers, interesting and credible rap artists continue to emerge as well. 2004 will reveal the latter with the solo debut of Barak Records' ... read more
Jacksonville, Florida, has enjoyed a long and stirring rock and roll tradition. From the time the seminal guitar crunch of Lynyrd Skynyrd first put this vibrant city on the rock and roll map, J-ville has played an integral role in the on-going evolu... read more
Where do Soil fit amidst the modern age of superficial hard rock heroes and fleeting, nu-metal fancies? They don't-And that's the beauty of the Chicago five-piece. Unlike many of their contemporaries-who have more piercings than they do hooks, and lo... read more
It has been five years since The Stranglers last studio album but, at last, the long-awaited and much-anticipated 'Norfolk Coast' is finished and scheduled for release on Roadrunner Records on 16th February 2004. The album will be preceded by the rel... read more
