Search for the Hidden Gem (2010 – vol#2)
With football season climatically over, and really who would have thought the Saints at 20-1 to start the season would win it all, I can now turn my attention to the Olympic spectacle that is curling. If I could only remember where I put my lucky broom I’d be batting a thousand. Clandestine Self-Titled www.clandestineband.com [...]
Rob Zombie :: Hellbilly Deluxe 2
Label: Roadrunner Records Release Date: February 2nd, 2010 My rating points: 7 out of 10 Track Listing: Jesus Frankenstein (5:22) Sick Bubble-Gum (3:44) What? (2:48) Mars Needs Women (4:59) Werewolf, Baby (4:00) Virgin Witch (3:39) Death And Destiny Inside The Dream Factory (2:19) Burn (3:04) Cease to Exist (3:39) Werewolf Women of the SS (3:01) [...]
Overkill :: Ironbound
Label: E1 Metal Release Date: February 9th, 2010 My rating points: 8 out of 10 Track Listing: The Green and Black (8:12) Ironbound (6:33) Bring Me The Night (4:15) The Goal Is Your Soul (6:40) Give A Little (4:41) Endless War (5:41) The Head and Heart (5:10) In Vain (5:12) Killing For a Living (6:14) [...]
Crippled Black Phoenix :: 200 Tons of Bad Luck
Label: Invada Prog rock and post rock have in some ways travelled along similar lines, but in different time frames. Prog was an early 70′s genre, bred out of post psychedelia. Post rock came out of post punk/new wave of the late 70′s. early 80′s and developed through the late 80′s into the 90′s. However [...]
Gov’t Mule :: By a Thread
Label: Provogue Records I would have to say the latest release from Warren Haynes and the boys is the Mule’s best studio album to date. “By A Thread” touches all their familiar bases and then some. It’s a work of remarkable variety and maturity which never loses sight of the band’s southern rock roots. Proceedings [...]
Ozzy Osbourne (book signing event)
Book Soup – West Hollywood-CA Date: 02/02/10 A little girl, who must have been around 2 or 3 years of age at the most, was wearing a shirt that said ‘Ozzy Rules’, pretty much summing up the general opinion among the huge crowd that had gathered on the Sunset strip outside the Book Soup today. [...]
Broken Teeth :: Viva La Rock Fantastico
Label: Perris Records Broken Teeth return with their latest slab of pure uncut rock fury with, ‘Viva La Rock Fantastico’, and just like their previous outings, this one is a rattlesnake with one bad ass attitude. The new album is a power-chord bonanza that is sure to get your blood pumping in no time flat! [...]
Outloud
Label: Phantom Domestic OUTLOUD is a brand new Greek-American melodic rco band with strong 80s vibe. The band’s self-titled debut release, is probably one of the biggest surprises in the genre of melodic hard rock scene as it brings together some of the greatest musicians from the US and Greece; FIREWIND’s Bob Katsionis (keys-guitars) and [...]
Bruce Kulick
Cat Club, West Hollywood CA 02/01/10 Bruce Kulick did a short show to celebrate the release of his latest solo album ‘BK3′ here at the Cat Club tonight, probably the smallest club on the Sunset strip which made for the most intimate atmosphere you would ever be a part of. Quite a few familiar faces [...]
King’s Tonic
Good songs sing with only a single guitar More than 200 shows on 3 continents – even a lot of signed bands from Germany do not have a tour record like this. Still the pop punks of King’s Tonic have never had a record deal: “Because nowadays – economically understandable – labels will not invest [...]


















