Holy White Hounds “Sparkle Sparkle” Independent There are few bands in the metro that have grown as much and as quickly as the Holy White Hounds. Three short years ago, [...]

Sara Routh “Black Sheep” Independent The best ideas are often the simplest ones, and “Black Sheep” is a deceptively simple EP. For five songs, all you get is Routh and [...]

Scott Cochran “I’ll See You in the Moonlight” Independent If Scott Cochran is not the best blues bassist in the state, he is certainly in the picture. Known mostly for [...]

Motorhead “Bad Magic” UDR There is an old saying that goes, “Once you have listened to one Motorhead album, you have listened to every Motorhead album.” It’s not completely without [...]

Bon Jovi “Burning Bridges” Mercury “Burning Bridges” is, at its very heart, a bit of a lazy cash grab. As the band members get set to formally move on without [...]

Dr. Dre “Compton” Interscope Dr. Dre is officially an old man ranting at clouds in “Compton,” his first album in 16 years. But, like most everything else Dre has done [...]

MarKaus “White Mans Burden” Independent “I’m graded at what I’m made of/I’m the realization of what Reagan was afraid of.” So goes the opening line of verse three in the [...]

Titus Andronicus “The Most Lamentable Tragedy” Merge Let us start with the most glaringly obvious: “The Most Lamentable Tragedy” is long. Stupid long. Twenty-nine tracks, 93-minutes long. It is so [...]

Kasey Chambers “Bittersweet” Warner “Bittersweet” is Australian-born Kasey Chambers’ first solo album in four years, and her first music of any kind since splitting with husband Shane Nicholson in 2012. [...]

Lamb of God “VII: Sturm und Drang” Epic Lamb of God has been a bit snake bitten of late. Most notably, there was vocalist Randy Blythe’s legal troubles in Prague, [...]