Rock Around the World

Prescott Curlywolf Mercury Records. NR
Six Ways To Sunday.

Look for this album to hit the streets on May 7th.
Internet Listening Pleasure: Spaceman, Long Way Down, Lorraine, Marjorie Daw, Ironsides, Worst Case Scenario

Scott Thomas Mercury Records. NR
Shine Like You.

Listening to this music may remind you of Jeff Buckley and Grant Lee Buffalo.
I Think you will enjoy this album when it hits the street on May 7th.
Internet Listening Pleasure: Strange, Wonderful, The Name.

Imperial Drag WORK. NA
Imperial Drag.

Dick Dale Beggars Banquet. NR
Calling Up Spirits.

George Michael DreamWorks. NR
Older.

Butthole Surfers Capitol. NR
Eliectric Larry Land.

Cocteau Twins Capitol. NR
Milk & Kisses.

The Specials Virgin. NR
Today's Specials.

Peter Wolf Reprise. NR
Long Line.

King's X Atlantic. NR
Ear Candy.

The Wallflowers Interscope. NR
Bringing Down The Horse.

The Scorpions Atlantic. NR
Pure Instinct.

Porno For Pyros Warner Brothers. NR
Good God's Urge.

Slayer american recordings. NR
Undisputed Attitude.

Moonshake CZ/Zoo. NA
Dirty & Divine

Carefully crafted samples that fit sans guitar into any urban backdrop of your choice.
Internet Listening Pleasure: Exotic Siren Song, The Taboo.

Super 8 Hollywood . NA
Super 8

Super 8 reminds me of early Living Colour. Bronx Style Bob's voice is a soulful pleasure to hear and the music this band makes has a nice groove that is On The One.
Internet Listening Pleasure: King Of The World, Heaven's Don't Cry, Natural.

Soundgarden A&M. NR
Down On The Upside

Everyone is in for a big treat with this album.
Internet Listening Pleasure: Pretty Noose.

Prong Epic. NR
Rude Awakening

Have you ever felt the torque of a pretty powerful engine propelling a car that you were in that you felt your body receding into the seat you're sitting in through no force of your own? Well, there are cars out there with torquey V8s and especially the V12s that can do that to you. Prong's latest album has unquestioned Torque. This is a sonic quarter mile, where seemingly every song, pushes you farther and farther back into your seat til you're pinned to it, strapped in until this Power Trio, with help from Charlie Clauser and a heck of a mechanic/crew chief in Terry Date, let off the throttle somewhere after Proud Division ends and the chute pops. To top things off, if you've got a CD-ROM, there's an extra bonus for you since this album is CD Extra/Enhanced CD.
Internet Listening Pleasure: Controller, Rude Awakening, Unfortunately, Face Value, Slicing, Mansruin, Innocence Gone, Close The Door, Proud Division.

Holy Barbarians Beggars Banquet/Reprise. NR
Cream

It is so very good to have the Voice of Ian Astbury back on the scene. Astbury CAN SING, so this album was glorious respite for me to live with for a week, feeding my ears with the rich textures of this new band fronted by one of the most gifted vocalists to come out of the 80's, wade through Grunge, and come back to the scene with some of the best sonic gems I've heard in a while.
Internet Listening Pleasure: Dolly Bird, Cream, Blind, Space Junkie, You Are There, Bodhisattva.

Spin Doctors Epic. NR
You've Got To Believe In Something

I can't help but wonder what the sessions were like for the Spin Doctors to be knocking around with Kootch. The sound on this album is a joy for the ears. If you've got a CD-ROM, this is another one of those fine, CD Extra/Enhanced CDs.
Internet Listening Pleasure: House, She Used To Be Mine, Where Angels Fear To Tread, If Wishes Were Horses, Sister Sisyphus.

Neville Brothers A&M. NR
Mitakuye Oyasin Oyasin (All My Relations)

The Titans of Tipitina's are back with an album that highlights each gifted brother's talents handily, especially Cyrille's powerful soulful voice balanced by Aaron's legendary angelic vocal tone. Makes me wanna reach for an Abita or a Blackened Voodoo. Dig, I know what it means to miss New Orleans. Everytime I hear the Nevilles, my heart grows just a little heavy for the Big Easy. Man, where can I get a decent Muffaletta in L.A.? Somebody tell me.
Internet Listening Pleasure: Love Spoken Here, Holy Spirit, Saved By the Grace Of Your Love, You're Gonna Make Your Mama Cry.

The Tragically Hip Atlantic. NR
Trouble At The Hen House

Put this album on after a night of raging. It might help you make the segue in to sleep.
Internet Listening Pleasure: Ahead By A Century, Flamenco.

The Suicide Machines Hollywood Records. NA
Destruction By Definition

Internet Listening Pleasure: New Girl, Our Time, Vans Song.

Pantera EastWest. NR
The Great Southern Trendkill

Going about as roaring lions, seeking out whom they might devour...Another full tilt Terry Date production.
Internet Listening Pleasure: Drag The Waters, 13 Steps To Nowhere, Living Through Me (Hell's Wrath), The Underground In America.

The Cure Fiction/Elektra. NR
Wild Mood Swings

Strange Attraction is the song that does it for me.
Internet Listening Pleasure: Club America, This Is A Lie, Strange Attraction, Round&Round&Round, Return, Bare.

Beth Hart Band 143/Lava/Atlantic. NA
Immortal

I got bumped from Kenny Wayne Shepherd's gig at the Troubadour in January to the Dragonfly gig...fortuitously for me, since I never would have heard Beth Hart, if it was not for the bump...That night, I think I was definitely more struck by Beth and her band, than I was by the KWS performance.

Beth has got a synthesis of Janis Joplin and Grace Slick shooting through her rail-thin body. What ever drives this lady, she leaves it all up there on the stage and walks off with little left for herself, you dig? She expends energy like she's tapped in to the spirit of Otis Redding.

Dig this album. Beth's band Rocks! Part of that Rockin nature can be attributed to the care taken by some heavy weight producers. The troika of Hugh Padgham, David Foster, and Mike Clink have handled this Artist right down to the songs they jockeyed.

Promotion should spin the shit out of "Isolation".


Internet Listening Pleasure: Isolation, State of Mind, Binging.

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