Rock

What's left of the Berlin of David Bowie and Iggy Pop? With this question in mind, James Eleganz imagined his second collaboration with Larry Mullins alias Toby Dammit (Iggy Pop, Swans, Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds), artistic director and mate since "The...

What's happening in the streets? This right here, a celebrated engineer Yas Inoue and DJ Takaya Nagase come together in the studio and rework the Voltage Brothers rare groove jam 'Happening In the Streets' with a cleverly put together edit with filters,...

Whatever sense of unity bound a hodgepodge of underground American punk sounds in the 1990s like a Duct-tape wallet began to come unglued by the end of the decade. A couple years into the new millennium and the emo scene that once had enough space for a...

WHAT, ME WORRY? is Yukihiro's fourth solo album originally released in 1982 on the YEN Label launched with Haruomi Hosono and Alfa Records. In addition to Japanese musicians Haruomi Hosono, Ryuichi Sakamoto, Kenji Omura and Hiroshi Sato, additional album...

What would metal have been without the input of brothers John and Criss Oliva. "Sirens", "Hall Of The Mountain King" or "Gutter Bullet" are just a few examples from the legendary Savatage discogrophy. Handful Of Rain (1994, the first and only Savatage...

What would it be to see the future? To understand ourselves and our communities in the scope of time? "Ellapsis" isn't afraid to ask these questions. Sonically, it's not really shoegaze, it's not really emo, but exists in the liminal space between, with...

What was available to unknown hard rocking dreamers like Umbra in Denver in 1971-72? Weekend gigs. Nothing but weekend gigs. But there was an upside to that: bands like Umbra could mix original material in with covers, and make enough money to survive...

What turned out to be Elvis Presley's final Nashville session brought music that was originally overlooked. The original recordings found their way on the holiday themed Elvis Sings the Wonderful World of Christmas (1971), the gospel He Touched Me...

What transpires from this album, besides the psychedelic blues with a touch of jazz and sometimes a component of garage (for example the fantastic arrangement of "River Deep, Mountain High") is the great technical preparation of the music performers...

What Separates Me from You is the fourth studio album by American metalcore/pop punk band A Day to Remember, and their third for Victory. Originally planned for release in late-October 2010, the album was delayed by a few weeks until mid-November. The...

What Matters Most - Ben Folds - "More than anything, I wanted to make an album that was generous, that was useful," says Ben Folds. "I want you to finish this record with something you didn't have when you started." Indeed, Folds' masterful new...

What Kind of Blue Are You?, Winter's sophomore release with Bar/None Records, is an emotional excavation of Samira Winter's purest self. It's another stunning work in a canon that's established her as one of Los Angeles' most enduring,...