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Devo – Something For Everybody

September 29, 2010

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Extended Play Tuesday (on wednesday!): Tigger Clarkson, The Sweet Kill, The Doggs

August 04, 2010

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Sniff ‘n’ the Tears – Fickle Heart

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Time of the New Order – Featuring Bad Lieutenant, Kites with Lights, Fear of Night and Ceremony: A Tribute to New Order

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Ripple News - M Pop Muzik, the Remix Album hits the Stores

November 21, 2009

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Flashback to Tomorrow - Shark Speed and Erase.Release

September 07, 2009

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Flashback to Tomorrow: People and Gala

August 03, 2009

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War Tapes - The Continental Divide

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The Beat - S/T

January 02, 2009

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The Fixx - Ink

November 10, 2008

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The Angels (Angel City): Face to Face

Nobody will deny that AC/DC 's riffs can shatter concrete and that their boogie rocking blues makes for some good times, but if you're searching for something with lyrical content beyond songs about women's butts and groupies with the clap, Angel City is the band for you. Amazingly huge and known as the Angels in Australia , they had to adopt the moniker Angel City in America due to the dying glam band, Angel fronted by Greg Guiffria. This nomenclature schizophrenia would torment the band throughout it's existence, once forcing them to take up the unruly moniker of The Angels from Angel City . But don't let the name confusion steer you away from what they have to offer. No matter what they called themselves The Angles knew how to rock and Face to Face , a compilation of the best songs from their two prior mega-platinum Australian releases, is a great place to lose yourself in their particular brand of madness. The key to Angel City (the Angels) were ...

The Angels (Angel City) - Dark Room

Previously, we'd already posted on these hallowed pages a review of The Angels Face to Face , a devastatingly powerful album that married the passion and intensity of the Sex Pistols with the rock and roll riffs of AC/DC . In truth, it's difficult to tell which is the quintessential Angels album, their first American release Face to Face or their follow-up Dark Room . The Australian version of Face spent an unprecedented 77 weeks on the Aussie charts, and Dark Room followed it by immediately going platinum. In America, however, The Angels still struggled to find an audience. The problem was no one knew how to classify the band. Too punk for heavy metal, they were too rock for punk and too heavy for new wave. As singer Doc Neeson put it. "Punk. Heavy metal. New Wave. We're a rock and roll band. Those other words confuse me." Indeed, The Angels were a rock and roll band, and Dark Room , rocks in fine form. Like Face to Face , Dark Room has the same propul...

Bang-Bang - Life Part II

Sometimes everything that could possibly go wrong for a band goes wrong: the wrong look, the wrong music, the wrong time. Certainly, this was the situation for Bang-Bang , a marketing and promotion team’s worst nightmare. Emerging from the glam and sleaze scene of West Hollywood in the mid-eighties, it seems that everything Bang-Bang did was wrong. Just look at the cover of their only album, Life Part II , and you can see part of the problem. Their look, a glammed out fusion of tailored designer suits and more hair than one had ever seen losing a battle with Aquanet, was more in tune with Duran Duran or a glammed out Japan than the exploding hair metal scene in LA. Unfortunately, those who bought the album expecting bouncing, happy, eighties dance cuts were in for a rude surprise. Their music, a fascinating hybrid of sleaze rock, glam and eighties new-wave wrapped up in songs about reincarnation, religious alienation and the loneliness of love, was far too dark to be Duran Duran...

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