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Matt Skiba & The Sekrets Babylon Century Media Records May 8 , 2012 TRACKLISTING 1. Voices 2. All Fall Down 3. Luciferian Blues 4. Haven't You? 5. The End of Joy 6. You 7. Olivia 8. Falling Like Rain 9. How the Hell Did We Get Here? 10. Angel of Deaf --- Check out my full review for Indulge-Sound.com XoXo c.

The Used Vulnerable Hopeless Records March 27, 2012 Is Vulnerable a bad album? No. However, by the standards The Used have built, it’s somewhat disappointing. Read my full review at ACRN.com XoXo c.

Anti-Flag The General Strike SideOneDummy Records March 20, 2012 TRACKLISTING 1.Controlled Opposition 2. The Neoliberal Anthem 3. 1915 4. This Is The New Sound 5. Bullshit Opportunist 6. The Ranks of The Masses Rising 7. Turn A Blind Eye 8. Broken Bones 9. I Don't Wanna 10. Nothing Recedes Like Progress 11. Resist 12. The Ghosts of Alexandria ---- As long as there has been something to question in the band's lifespan, Anti-Flag has been there to question it. That still rings true on The General Strike . Read my full review for ACRN.com XoXo c.

Gotye Making Mirrors Universal Republic January 31, 2011 (US release) TRACKLISTING 1. Making Mirrors 2. Easy Way Out 3. Somebody That I Used To Know 4. Eyes Wide Open 5. Smoke and Mirrors 6. I Feel Better 7. In Your Light 8. State of The Art 9. Don't Worry, We'll Be Watching You 10. Giving Me A Chance 11. Save Me 12. Bronte --- Gotye's Making Mirrors has the power to make listeners experience and feel many things, but can the art rock catch on with a broader audience? Read my full review for ACRN.com --- XoXo c.

Anthony Green Beautiful Things Photo Finish Records January 17, 2012 TRACKLISTING 1. "If I Don't Sing" 2. "Do It Right" 3. "Moon Song" 4. "Get Yours While You Can" 5. "When I'm On Pills" 6. "Can't Have it All At Once" 7. "Big Mistake" 8. "Love You No Matter What" 9. "How It Goes" 10. "Just to Feel Alive" 11. "James' Song" 12. "Blood Song" 13. "Lullaby" ___ Read my full review for ACRN.com ___ XoXo c.

Misfits The Devil's Rain Misfit Records October 4, 2011 TRACKLISTING 1. The Devil's Rain 2. Vivid Red 3. Land Of The Dead 4. The Black Hole 5. Twilight of the Dead 6. Curse of the Mummy’s Hand 7. Cold In Hell 8. Unexplained 9. Dark Shadows 10. Father 11. Jack The Ripper 12. Monkey's Paw 13. Where Do They Go? 14. Sleepwalkin' 15. Ghost Of Frankenstein 16. Death Ray _____ With detached appendages like monkey paws and mummy hands all outstretched at listeners in The Devil’s Rain, they might find that little actually grabs them. Read my full review for ACRN.com _____

Taking Back Sunday Taking Back Sunday Warner Bros. Records June 28, 2011 TRACKLISTING 1. El Paso 2. Faith (When I Let You Down) 3. Best Places to Be a Mom 4. Sad Savior 5. Who Are You Anyway? 6. Money (Let It Go) 7. This Is All Now 8. It Doesn't Feel a Thing Like Falling 9. Since You're Gone 10. You Got Me 11. Call Me In the Morning _______ Rating: 7/10 Key Tracks: "This Is All Now," "Best Places to be a Mom," "Money (Let It Go)" ______ Last March, Taking Back Sunday’s line-up took the least expected turn. Matt Rubano, their bassist of seven years, and Matt Fazzi, their guitarist for the short New Again era, were suddenly out. I doubt a single fan expected then that those members would be replaced by Shaun Cooper and John Nolan, the bassist and guitarist/vocalist respectively, from TBS’s Victory Records debut Tell All Your Friends . It wasn’t an early April Fool’s joke as many fans had assumed. The old TBS ...

Destroy Rebuild Until God Shows D.R.U.G.S. Sire February 22, 2011 TRACKLISTING 1. If You Think This Song Is About You, It Probably Is 2. The Only Think You Talk About 3. Graveyard Dancing 4. Mr. Owl Ate My Metal Worm 5. Sex Life 6. Laminated E.T. Animal 7. Stop Reading, Start Doing Pushups 8. I'm The Rehab, You're The Drugs 9. I'm Here To Take The Sky 10. The Hangman 11. My Swagger Has a First Name _______ Rating: 8.5/10 Key Tracks: "If You Think This Song Is About You, It Probably Is," "Graveyard Dancing" & "Laminated E.T. Animal" _______ To start the picking-apart of D.R.U.G.S. , the debut album from Destroy Rebuild Until God Shows (also D.R.U.G.S.), it is appropriate to introduce the parts that make up the whole of this much-needed savior-monster of a supergroup: Craig Owens, vocalist formerly of Chiodos ; Matt Good, guitarist and vocalist from From First To Last ; drummer Aaron Stern from Matchbook...

Bayside Killing Time Wind-Up Records February 22, 2011 TRACKLISTING 1. Already Gone 2. Sick, Sick, Sick 3. Mona Lisa 4. It’s Not A Bad Little War 5. Sinking and Swimming on Long Island 6. Seeing Sound 7. The Wrong Way 8. On Love, On Life 9. The New Flesh 10. Killing Time _______ Rating : 7.5/10 Key Tracks : "Mona Lisa," "It's Not A Bad Little War" & "Sick, Sick, Sick" ______ Four tracks into Killing Time , I knew Bayside 's latest effort would be my favorite of their albums. Past releases have featured strong tracks as singles that were the few I kept around as iTunes library-worthy while I found the albums as whole works to grow monotonous by the end. However, Killing Time is an album from which I could see myself hanging onto more than a few tracks permanently. It doesn't hurt that it is a mere 10 tracks long and is able to hold interest through all. Bayside, while staying true to the sound of the e...

First of all, I want to preface this review with a huge thank you to Warner Brothers Records for being so kind as to fly me and Brandi from My Chemical Freak to California for the listening party. I can't thank you enough for inviting me to be a part of this event! That having been said... Do you have your rayguns ready, motherfuckers? Get in the car. Quick. My Chemical Romance Danger Days: The True Lives Of The Fabulous Killjoys Warner Brothers/Reprise November 22, 2010 Track-by-track 1. “Look Alive, Sunshine” The introduction to the album and the first time the listener hears narrator Dr. Death Defying's smooth Zone jargon. “Look Alive…” is exactly what you hear at the beginning of the “Na Na Na…” video , and – as you know if you have seen it – the two tracks blend perfectly. 2. “Na Na Na (Na Na Na Na Na Na Na Na Na)” The first single from the album and a song that many of you have probably already heard. I, having heard it in the context of the r...

Senses Fail The Fire Vagrant Records October 26, 2010 TRACKLISTING 1. The Fire 2. Saint Anthony 3. New Year’s Eve 4. Safe House 5. Coward 6. Landslide 7. Headed West 8. Lifeboats 9. Nero 10. Irish Eyes 11. Hold On Read my full review on ACRN.com XoXo c.

Matt Skiba Demos Asian Man Records August 10, 2010 TRACKLISTING 1. You Didn't Feel a Thing 2. Angel of Deaf 3. I Can't Believe You 4. Haven't You? 5. How The Hell Did We Get Here? 6. Cradle To The Grave 7. Red, White, and You 8. Radio Vienna 9. S.O.S. 10. Nausea (Cruel and Unusual) 11. Into Thin Air 12. Merry-Go-Down [13. Field of Darkness] 14. Special 15. Razor Blade Blues 16. Magicland Matt Skiba's first full-length solo album sets a dark mood and allows fans a look at the rawest form of his art. Read my full review for ACRN.Com! XoXo c.

Avenged Sevenfold Nightmare Warner Bros. July 27, 2010 My Rating: 8.5/10 TRACKLISTING 1. Nightmare 2. Welcome To the Family 3. Danger Line 4. Buried Alive 5. Natural Born Killer 6. So Far Away 7. God Hates Us 8. Victim 9. Tonight The World Dies 10. Fiction 11. Save Me 'Nightmare,' perhaps Avenged Sevenfold's darkest and most refined album to date, pays a clear tribute to the tragedy that preceded its recording. Read my full review for ACRN.com! XoXo c.

The Gaslight Anthem American Slang SideOneDummy June 15, 2010 TRACKLISTING 1. American Slang 2. Stay Lucky 3. Bring It On 4. The Diamond Church Street Choir 5. The Queen of Lower Chelsea 6. Orphans 7. Boxer 8. Old Haunts 9. The Spirit Of Jazz 10. We Did It When We Were Young "It’s the scene of rusting away and nostalgia that American Slang’s sound evokes: a sound both expected and unexpected from the New Jersey band that worked with producer Ted Hutt on Slang and whose previous album paid a more punk-marinated ode to the past." Read my full review for ACRN.Com! XoXo c.

Against Me! White Crosses Sire June 8, 2010 My Rating: 8/10 TRACKLISTING 1. White Crosses 2. I Was a Teenage Anarchist 3. Because of the Shame 4. Suffocation 5. We're Breaking UP 6. High Pressure Low 7. Ache With Me 8. Spanish Moss 9. Rapid Decompression 10. Bamboo Bones "White Crosses" is a decent release carried by its lyrics but without many surprises. Read my full review for ACRN.com XoXo c.

Hawthorne Heights Skeletons Wind-Up June 1, 2010 TRACKLISTING 1. Bring You Back 2. Nervous Breakdown 3. End of the Underground 4. Drive 5. Gravestones 6. Broken Man 7. Last Few Words 8. Abandoned Driveways 9. Picket Fences 10. Here I Am 11. Hollywood & Vine 12. Unforgivable 13. Boy My fellow Ohioans Hawthorne Heights certainly have not pigeonholed themselves with their latest release. Read my full review for ACRN.com XoXo c.

Coheed and Cambria Year of the Black Rainbow Sony April 13, 2010 TRACKLISTING 1. One 2. The Broken 3. Guns of Summer 4. Here we are Juggernaut 5. Far 6. This Shattered Symphony 7. World of Lines 8. Made Out of Nothing (All that I am) 9. Pearl of the Stars 10. In The Flame of Error 11. When Skeletons Live 12. The Black Rainbow Coheed and Cambria's 5th studio release becomes an audio journey, assisted by soaring choruses and intense guitar mixed with a fantasy-enhancing electronic sound that is reminiscent of blasting enemies in an epic game of laser tag. Read my full review for ACRN.com XoXo c.

Alkaline Trio This Addiction Heart & Skull/ Epitaph February 22, 2010 TRACKLISTING 1. This Addiction 2. Dine, Dine My Darling 3. Lead Poisoning 4. Dead On the Floor 5. The American Scream 6. Off The Map 7. Draculina 8. Eating Me Alive 9. Piss And Vinegar 10. Dorothy 11. Fine Deluxe Edition Bonus Tracks 12. Kick Rocks 13. Those Lungs 14. This Addiction (acoustic) 15. Dine, Dine My Darling (acoustic) 16. Dead On the Floor (acoustic) 17. Fine (acoustic) 'This Addiction' proves that the men of Alkaline Trio can both stay true to their original style and take risks. Their hearts and livers have yet to dry up, and -- judging by this album -- the trio still has plenty more blood, heartache and booze-riddled lovesickness to offer. Click here to read my full review! XoXo c.

Story of the Year The Constant Epitaph Records February 16, 2010 TRACKLISTING 1. The Children Sing 2. The Ghost Of You and I 3. I’m Alive 4. To The Burial 5. The Dream Is Over 6. Remember A Time 7. Holding On To You 8. Won Threw Ate 9. Ten Years Down 10. Time Goes On 11. Eye For An Eye Click here to read my full review! XoXo c.

The Bouncing Souls Ghosts on the Boardwalk Chunksaah Records January 12, 2010 Track listing : 1. Gasoline 2. Never Say Die / When You're Young 3. I Think That the World... 4. Ghosts on the Boardwalk 5. Airport Security 6. Badass 7. The Mental Bits 8. Dubs Says True 9. Boogie Woogie Downtown 10. Big Eyes 11. We All Sing Along 12. Like the Sun Read my full review here. XoXo c.