The Bronx
The Bronx
Island The Bronx's third self-titled album continues where the last album left off. The band has certified its position in the music world as one of the punk bands still making punk music. Combine harsh, growling vocals and fast, furious guitars with some angry punk lyrics and you have The Bronx, the last bastion of punk. While you're waiting for that new Bad Religion album, The Bronx should do more than tide you over.
B+ - Chris Partlow Clutch
Full Fathom Five
2007/2008
Weathermaker Music It's hard to believe that Clutch is still as unknown as it is. With a near-perfect catalogue, each album taking on a different style, Clutch has become the last true rock 'n' roll band out there. Full Fathom Five is a collection of live songs, ranging from the band's early stoner rock recordings to its newer southern rock sound. It's a collection sure to please any fan, and if you haven't heard of them yet, there's no better time than now to start listening.
A- - C.P. Eagles of
Death Metal
Heart On
Downtown As many have rather astutely pointed out, the Eagles of Death Metal, indeed, consist of neither eagles nor death metal, but instead a very pleasantly tongue-in-cheek take on alternative-flavored sleaze-rock. The duo's third album Heart On is a fine and giddy follow-up to its excellent Death by Sexy that continues its time-honored tradition of making a mockery of a genre that is too ridiculous to take seriously anyway.
B - Ben Shanbrom Hinder
Take It To The Limit
Universal Republic Continuing to follow in the drunken footsteps of post-grunge predecessors Buckcherry and Theory of a Dead Man, Hinder plows forward with another heaping helping of hedonistic hard rock. Little has changed since the band's polarizing debut, as evident from the first track "Use Me," where vocalist Austin Winkler eagerly describes his willingness to be taken advantage of for, ahem ... "pleasure's sake." If rock music wasn't ever meant to be more than sex, drugs, and rock 'n' roll, these guys never got the memo.
D- - B.S.
Spring Break
