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Umphrey’s McGee returns with their fifth studio album in their storied decade-plus career. Death by Stereo , which was released on September 13, is a varied collection of tunes spanning multiple genres from garage punk to metal to progressive rock to country to funk to 70s R&B and 80s synth pop.

Highly Recommended I can't stand listening to the radio anymore because the music industry just doesn't seem to get it. Locally there's only one rock station left, and all I hear are the same 20 some-odd tunes played over and over again. Flip the station and I'm barraged with 'today's greatest hits', a selection of tunes that are too simplistic - The same beat is looped from beginning to end ...

If you play hard enough, you don't have to play long. That was the lesson from the 72-minute performance by Iggy and the Stooges on Sunday night at the packed Riviera Theatre. The quintet's aural blitzkrieg was brief but violent, briskly paced and brutally loud. The 16-song concert included all eight tunes from 1973's proto-punk classic, "Raw Power."

Doomriders – Darkness Comes Alive (2009) [ Death Wish ] // Grade: A To be honest, I wasn’t a huge fan of Doomrider’s last CD, Black Thunder . Something about it not fulfilling all the hype and not really satisfying my craving for some post-Converge and Cave In tunes. I grew up listening to Converge and Cave In, so I expected some of the brutal breaks along the lines of Petitioning the Empty Sky and Until Your Heart Stops . After listening to Black Thunder I wrote off Doomriders

Spinal Tap Back From The Dead Artist2Market Following the release of 1992’s Break Like The Wind , Spinal Tap is indeed back from the dead with Back From The Dead . Commemorating the 25th anniversary of the Marty DiBergi-helmed documentary This is Spinal Tap , the album features re-recorded classics and some new tunes that’ll easily persuade you to dump the rest of your music collection into the garbage bin as it simply doesn’t get any better than this. Although most of the reworked mat