Album A Day: Disturbed – The Sickness

Artist: Disturbed Album: The Sickness Release Date: March 7, 2000 I haven’t listened to The Sickness in a really long time, mostly because I remember this album as the one where David Draiman makes disturbing monkey sounds, but also because I tend to prefer the vastly underrated Believe or Indestructible. But then I remember this [...]

Album A Day: Garth Brooks – In Pieces

Artist: Garth Brooks Album: In Pieces Release Date: August 31, 1993 So my roommate Justin and I have determined that our goal in life is to become supreme dictators of music, and in so doing enact a long list of new rules to better the world of music. These rules kind of read like Bill [...]

Album A Day: The Raconteurs – Broken Boy Soldiers

Artist: The Raconteurs Album: Broken Boy Soldiers Release Date: May 16, 2006 Usually a side project is a mechanism for an artist to expand his own ego by taking the lead on another project. But leave it to Jack White to turn the norm on its head. With The Raconteurs, Jack White primarily serves as [...]

Album A Day: John Lennon – Walls and Bridges

Artist: John Lennon Album: Walls and Bridges Release Date: October 4, 1974 And once again real life meets the Album a Day series head-on, as today marks John Lennon’s 69th birthday, making Walls and Bridges a fitting contribution to solo/side project week. A friend asked me why I chose Walls and Bridges out of all [...]

Album A Day: Rob Thomas – Something to Be

Artist: Rob Thomas Album: Something to Be Release Date: April 5, 2005 Behold, the rare solo album that’s at the very least as good as the band that spawned it. Something to Be lacks the largely safe, low-risk-low-reward sound of Matchbox 20′s early albums, with Rob Thomas instead opting for a wider step. Tracks like [...]

Album A Day: Box Car Racer – Box Car Racer

Artist: Box Car Racer Album: Box Car Racer Release Date: May 21, 2002 I was about to call Box Car Racer the red-headed stepchild of Blink 182, but then I realized that all 3 side projects spawning from Blink were essentially the bastard children of the band. On the upside, Box Car Racer stayed fairly [...]

Tuesday Night Roundup: 30 Seconds to Mars, Vampire Weekend, Plus Bootlegs and Free Music

Welcome all, once again to the Tuesday Night Roundup. This week, a new single from a band everyone loves to hate, some bootlegs and freebies from around the interwebs, and our first glimpse at what music 2010 will offer us. =So, I know everyone hates 30 Seconds to Mars, but like with so many artists [...]

Album A Day: A Perfect Circle – Thirteenth Step

Artist: A Perfect Circle Album: Thirteenth Step Release Date: September 16, 2003 Originally I had this planned out to be a nice little piece about how I always underestimate Maynard James Keenan and keep selling him short, and how A Perfect Circle continues that trend. But apparently real life has come to the conclusion that [...]

Album A Day: Taylor Hawkins & The Coattail Riders – Taylor Hawkins and the Coattail Riders

Apparently my subconscious decided that this week was devoted to solo albums and/or side projects. Artist: Taylor Hawkins and the Coattail Riders Album: Taylor Hawkins and the Coattail Riders Release Date: March 21, 2006 For those not playing along at home, Taylor Hawkins is the drummer for the Foo Fighters. On the one hand, Hawkins [...]

Album A Day: Thom Yorke – The Eraser

Artist: Thom Yorke Album: The Eraser Release Date: July 10, 2006 Now, far be it from me to suggest that something Thom Yorke is involved with isn’t particularly good… but Thom Yorke’s solo album The Eraser isn’t particularly good. At least not in comparison to other things Radiohead has done. In the nicest possible way, [...]