Label: Vagrant Tracks: 11 Released: 2006 Rating: 5 The album starts on a good note, and actually is pretty consistent throughout. The sound has a cool, laid-back rock ballad feel, and reminded me vaguely of the days when I’d listen to Our Lady Peace for hours on end in a melancholic trance. The Lemonheads weren’t… Read more »
On October 10th, voters in the Yukon decided to stick with their existing provincial government. On that day, they re-elected Dennis Fentie, leader of the Yukon Party. The win makes two in a row for the party, something that hasn’t happened in the Yukon Territory since 1989 when the New Democratic Party pulled off a… Read more »
Label: Roadrunner Release Date: July 2006 Tracks: 14 Rating: 2 In the beginning, Punk rock came from a warped interpretation of the New York Dolls, or at least that’s what I’ve been told. Punk crashed onto the scene in the early 1970s in the form of the Sex Pistols, led by a far-sighted fashion designer/band… Read more »
On Monday at 10:36 a.m. local time, North Korea performed its first nuclear test on its own soil. The international community has since been subject to media images of the North Korean army marching in an alarmingly Nazi-reminiscent style. Now the United States, among other nations, has called for immediate sanctions. The U.S. has been… Read more »
Label: Interscope Records Tracks: 12 Rating: 6 I haven’t listened to an AFI album since The Art of Drowning, released in 2000. Having missed their 2003 release, Sing the Sorrow, I was unaware that the band had evolved somewhat and created not one, but several variations of their original sound. While I could stretch myself… Read more »
Today, the U.S. has suffered its third shooting in one week, with a particularly horrific incident in a one-room Amish school in Pennsylvania. A man who called himself “Roy” walked into the school earlier today and told all the male students to leave the schoolroom. He then tied-up the girls and opened fire. The death… Read more »
Label: Fat Wreck Chords/G7 Welcoming Committee Tracks: 12 Rating: 7 This isn’t a new album, but there were vicious rumours surrounding its release. Since I had not looked into the matter previously, I felt that it was about time I did. What rumours are these, you ask? When released in late 2005, Potemkin City Limits… Read more »
As of this Tuesday, US and Canadian airports will be allowing air passengers to carry certain cosmetics and liquids with them on board, providing these items are in a sealed, clear plastic bag. Security officials claim they know what they’re looking for in terms of terrorist explosives and have let airline passengers carry certain, briefly… Read more »
I thought, when I went vegetarian, I would avoid all those particularly nasty bacteria that cause food poisoning. No raw or questionable meat, no germs, no diarrhoea, no food sickness, right? Apparently not. A batch of spinach, imported from the United States, is the alleged culprit in an E. coli infestation. The infestation has spread… Read more »
Label: Dreamworks Tracks: 13 Rating: 5 The first time I listened to this album, I was confused, to say the least. Despite a strong start, these tracks seem to bear no real relation to one another and show very little resemblance to the passionate, energetic tunes of Revolutions per Minute (2003). Listening to the third… Read more »