Music Review: Magnum - Into The Valley Of The Moonking

Magnum still producing the magic.

Music Review: Utada – This is the One
Utada provides a solid R&B; album with an Asian twist.

Coquettish – High Energy Politics (CD)
Off the top of my head, there have been three good “punky” Japanese (or Japanese-American) bands that I’ve been introduced to before Coquettish: The Polysics, Peelander-Z and Laughing Cunts. Coquettish makes four, as their style of music is influenced by the hardcore punk of the mid-nineties, specifically Rancid. Rancid seems to be a big important to Asia and Japan, as China’s biggest punk export, Brain Failure also takes heavily from the general sound that Rancid put forth. However, Coquettish

Music Review: Soundtrack - (500) Days Of Summer
Sixteen songs that will brighten those long days of summer.

Music Review: Post Grad (Soundtrack)
Soundtrack to Post Grad provides a great variety of styles and artists!

Music Review: Holly Williams – Here with Me (Mercury Nashville)
It’s one thing to be Shooter Jennings or Justin Townes Earle, but being the Granddaughter of country music legend Hank Williams and the Daughter of the hard-living, hell raising outlaw and legend of sorts Hank Williams Jr., well that’s a whole other mountain to climb. Like her half-brother Hank Williams III, Holly Williams takes the fundamentals laid down by her ancestors and burns her own brand on the work. Here With Me is much more a country record than her previous release for Universal S

The Cooper Temple Clause – Kick Up the Fire, and Let the Flames Break Loose (CD)
The Cooper Temple Clause has no idea that brevity is a good thing, with their average song being over five and a half minutes. As such, Loose doesn’t have songs as much as it has pieces with individual movements, demarcated when The CTC decide to go on a different tack. The Spartanness of the beginning of “Talking to a Brick Wall” moves into a Placebo/Oasis style of vocals, supplied by Ben; the entire track seems to me to be an aural rehash of Fiona Apple’s “Criminal”, down to the distorted drum