I just got done listening to Mandy Moore’s latest single “I Could Break Your Heart Any Day Of The Week” and I cant believe I can’t get a refund on that 3 minutes and 15 seconds of my life. The only good thing about this song was the video and even that was a little cheesy and disappointing. Through the whole video it shows off some really cool slow-mo shots of people getting their asses kicked, while Mandy Moore sits on the side lines badly lip syncing the song, wearing a curious looking trench coat. Sounds kinda cool, right? (except for the bad lip-syncing). Then walks in UFC superstar, “The…

Paul Epic strikes me as the kind of guy who will jump out of a moving car if it meant he would be helping out a friend. He also seems like he would throw someone out of a moving vehicle if he didn’t like the cologne they were wearing. Paul Epics’ debut album is titled South Of Heaven, North Of Hell and is released on Full Effect Records. I am a musician. I want to tell you that because I am very much against labeling another musician by saying he sound like someone else. That being said, Paul Epic is an amazing singer and songwriter. He has an insane amount…

Out on Mean Buzz/Adrenaline Records, “Sweat It Out” is the third full-length release from Nashville, Tennessee, released in September of this year. OK there really isn’t any way to do this nicely, so let’s just do it. This isn’t a very good record, at all. Seemingly embracing the more prevalent dancey and hip aspects of mainstream-appropriated indie music that has grown in popularity over the past few years, the Pink Spiders’ effort here doesn’t really do anything other than retread on already beaten-down-to-dirt ground. It’s the combination of attempts at being both “raw” and “rock ‘n roll” (if the multiple references to girls, sleeping on the floor, drugs, and tequila…

By Ace Diamond Something Old: Heavy Metal Soundtrack 1981 I recently gave this one a spin on my headset. There is a lot of stuff one here that is very classic. Most notably are the versions of “heavy metal” by Sammy Hagar and “the mob rules” from Black Sabbath. The mixes are way different than the record album version. in the case of Black Sabbath, it is a known fact that this version is from a totally separate recording session and it includes the “E5150″ intro as part of it. Over all I would say this is something every Metalhead should have in their respective arsenals. Something New: Kreator Live…

By Iwai Zavala Evanescence’s sophomore album, “the open door” hit the stores on October 3, 2006. The CD contains 13 songs: 1. Sweet Sacrifice 2. Call Me When You’re Sober 3. Weight of the World 4. Lithium 5. Cloud Nine 6. Snow White Queen 7. Lacrymosa 8. Like You 9. Lose Control 10. The Only One 11. Your Star 12. All That I’m Living For 13. Good Enough Spookier than ever, “The Open Door” features more classy and delicate songs than Evanescence’s previous album “Fallen”. Also, the CD contains a song about Amy Lee’s younger sister who died suicide at are 16. The song, track 8 “Like you”, tells a…

SOMETHING OLD: MEAT LOAF BAT OUT OF HELL CBS/EPIC 1978 I know I will be getting tons of shit for what I am about to say. I think the pair of Jim Steinman and Meat Loaf as musicians and songwriters belongs in league with the likes of Lennon/McCartney, Stanley/Simmons, Page/Plant, Tyler /Perry, and Jagger/Richards.Steinman/Loaf has never gotten the credit they are due. As to the music on this LP,Every damn song on here is a bona fide classic, 35 million times over. I hope Jim & Meat are enjoying having the last laugh. SOMETHING NEW: BLACK SABBATH THE DIO YEARS RHINO 2007 OK, so I guess by now it is…

NG26 a UK band with much to offer listeners and fans alike. Motivation, passion, talent, originality, and a unique style of music unlike no other. The band was formed in 1998, as a cover band. Consisting of two sets of brothers: Chris Topley -lead vocals, Jon Topley- drums, Rob Shaw-bass guitar/ b. vocals, and Rich Shaw- guitar. Influenced by bands such as: Metallica, Disturbed, Alter Bridge, Kiss, Guns N’ Roses, Pink Floyd, Incubus and Slip Knot. The band put forth, days, weeks, months and years of time and dedication to their ultimate passion…..MUSIC! Slowly developing their sound and style into what it is today…..totally ground breaking, kick ass music that…

SOMETHING OLD: VAN HALEN OU812 WARNER BROS. RECORDS 1988 I hate Van Hagar. If David Lee Roth is not singing on it, it ain’t Van Halen. This album sucks. After Roth, Van Halen turned into a lame and sappy pop and power ballad band, and as you all know I hate ballads. This abhorrent piece of crap starts off with “MINE ALL MINE”-a song in which spam-bone-ched-head, I mean Sammy Hagar, is fucking preaching. I don’t wanna hear preaching, and the Sammy era VH was loaded with preaching and whining, such as the next horrid power ballad, “WHEN IT’S LOVE”. “A.F.U.(NATURALLY WIRED)” is the only song on this album that…

SOMETHING OLD: OZZY OSBOURNE DIARY OF A MADMAN EPIC 1981 Hey everybody…..I know I ain’t piped in in a few months. I’ve been busy helping with making a movie called “CARNIES”, which is being directed by our own Brian Corder, and is being produced by his Father, my bass guitarist, Mr. John Corder, and stars my best friend Bill Schulz as “Siniscargo” as well as myself, Ace Diamond, as “The Wild Man From Borneo”………be on the lookout. I’ve also been writing new music as well as performing a concert, and I am still in pre-production for my new cd, which will be recording soon. It should prove interesting with OZZFEST…