Just in time for Christmas, here’s a list of recent releases for those of you who are literally waiting until the last minute to finish up your holiday shopping. We’ll cover a wide array of genres and artists, so soak it in, get off the damn computer, and finish up that shopping, procrastinator! …
Q-Tip - Open
J Records (Release date N/A)
Hip-Hop
Way back in 2002, Q-Tip tried to release a sophomore album. Kamaal the Abstract featured live instruments accompanied by more singing than rapping, and was promptly shelved, but not before review copies were sent out to media outlets.
Q-Tip secured a release from his label, [...]
Live at the Astoria plays out as a greatest-hits collection, with a solid sampling from the group’s back catalogue. The recording is fairly crisp, with hardly any crowd interference (which you’ll either like or dislike depending on what you’re looking for in a live album). …
While perhaps not quite at the level of Opeth or Dream Theater, Dir en grey is Japan’s answer to the aforementioned bands, proving it with a solid decade-long career and this, their seventh studio album. …
A year too late, this video compilation of live performances and artist interviews from the 2007 Warped Tour has finally hit shelves, and unfortunately does its best to underwhelm fans. …
Hot on the heels of Anthems for the Damned, Richard Patrick has put together a Web-exclusive album of remixes offering what he calls a more industrial take on Filter’s first new album in five years. …
Throwing Early Man’s latest EP onto the stereo is like activating a time machine. The band somehow manages to perfectly encapsulate the raw energy of Metallica’s Kill ‘Em All and other early thrash pioneers and, in doing so, they accomplish…
Close to a decade-and-a-half in the making, Guns N’ Roses’ latest effort, Chinese Democracy, finally hit shelves over the weekend. But even before its release, the album had managed to polarize a listening public. …
The only way that Corgan was going to achieve what he wanted with these residencies was to keep in mind that for every two people who just wanted to hear the old hits, there were a few young (or old) fans who still cared, and play the hell out of the new songs for them and them only. …
Eagles of Death Metal are Jesse “Boots Electric” Hughes and, moonlighting from Queens of the Stone Age, Josh “Baby Duck” Homme. And Eagles of Death Metal are rock, bottled. Take a little ’70s strut-groove cock rock, mix it with some ’80s style hedonism, and you’ve got EoDM in your glass. …