I’m half Swedish. I’m seriously fully half Swedish, yet I can’t say I’ve ever heard much reference to “Swedish music.”

It wasn’t until The Soundtrack of Our Lives (T.S.O.O.L., as they’re known in the states thanks to Dick Clark suing them for copyright infringement) brought their mega-hit “Behind the Music” to the states that I had […]

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Picking up the leftovers from At the Drive-In, Cedric Bixler and Omar Rodriguez formed the Mars Volta and have proved the best bands CAN start from doggie bags.

As you listen to a track from TMV, you’ll hear mystical psychedelic rock and free jazz forms, but if you listen close enough, you’ll find yourself on a […]

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Sunshine, a kickass band formed in a suburb outside the 15th century Czech Republic town of Tabor in 1994, aren’t all puppy dogs and lollipops.

A post-punk vibe stoked with influences ranging from Joy Division, the Cure, Mudhoney and the Rapture, the group sounds like something you would never hear coming from the United States watered […]

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By far the best compilation of John “Ox” Entwistle to date, “So Who’s the Bass Player” – The Ox Anthology” sports 38 tracks across two discs.

The album showcases the best tracks from his late century classics “Smash Your Head Against the Wall,” “Whistle Rhymes” and “Rigor Mortis Sets In,” and then follows Ox into the […]

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