Tucson Weekly Rhythm & Views

In a recent conversation, Stefan George said he's tried to avoid having his recordings serve as some kind of audio journal. "But that's pretty much what this has turned out to be," he continued, reflecting on the intense personal nature of Cloth, much of which focuses on the recent loss of family and friends.

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With its sixth studio album, Liebe Ist Für Alle Da, Berlin's Rammstein once again delves into a morbid sonic realm of disaffection, chaos and torture with11 industrial-metal tracks. The lyrics are in German, thank God, so you can't understand what sadistic acts vocalist Till Lindemann plans on inflicting upon female… Continue

I've always found Weezer irksome, but I can't deny the pleasures of Raditude.

Take "Can't Stop Partying," one of the tracks destined to be a single and make appearances on soundtracks galore for future teen comedies and hour-long dramas on the CW (if they can shoehorn it in under Leighton Meester's stranglehold… Continue

With Neon Indian, 21-year-old Alan Palomo makes roots-pop music for the Internet age. He creates with the hands-on imagination of a gamer, and his sound—including his mostly incomprehensible vocals—is entirely a product of electronics. Neon Indian is his third music project, and one of the others, the geek-electro VEGA, is sti… Continue

Anachronistic acts make easy targets. They're not innovators; they're acolytes, interested in re-invoking the halcyon days of a particular moment just for revelry's sake. In the case of Wolfmother, that moment mostly begins with the early proto-metal of Led Zeppelin and ends around the late-'70s Bon Scott era of AC/DC. They d… Continue