Posted on July 17, 2009 by James Brown
Mastodon has been a band that I’ve never really been able to get a grip on, honestly. These Atlanta based metalheads haven’t exactly been on my playlists too often, until one of our new writers actually told me to get in a good listen to them. Needless to say, I did. Crack the Skye is [...]
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Posted on July 16, 2009 by James Brown
As most of you know, Rush is a band that’s almost without equal. Seriously. other than King’s X and Motörhead, name another three man band that kicks this much ass. You probably can’t name too many. Let’s also add to the list of credits to this group. They’ve influenced everyone from the eclectic Primus to [...]
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Posted on June 19, 2009 by James Brown
I’m going to let you folks in on a little secret. How long can you keep it? Oh wait… It’s on the internet. Then, here goes. I’m not a practicing Christian, per say. However, I’ll admit to being in the fan club of this group. You can say what you want about me. But Jars [...]
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Posted on June 11, 2009 by James Brown
This album suggestion comes courtesy of thefuseproject, one of the brilliant football fanatics over at Avoiding the Drop. Now, what does footie and soul have in common. Both are the beautiful items of their respective fields. Football/soccer is known as the beautiful game. Soul is known as the beautiful songform. None personifies that more than [...]
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Posted on June 7, 2009 by James Brown
When people hear the name of Thousand Foot Krutch, TFK for short, it’s one of two reactions. Profound love is shown to the group, or much derision is shown to the group for being Christian rock. But the irony is, those folks who shortchange TFK for being a Christian band are missing out on a [...]
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