rock

Secretly Canadian Where have all the guitar solos gone? Ten years ago, they were as obligatory as drunken women flashing the stage, but now they are a rarity. The trend is growing, and most prominent with many of the roadhouse rock bands that are emerging. Catfish Haven is certainly one of the better ones, and […]

Bloodshot Always melodic, never mundane, “Zoysia,” the latest CD from Festus, Mo.’s The Bottle Rockets, finds the band adding political commentary to its usual humorous blue-collar anecdotes and anti-love songs. The result is an expansive Southern rock masterpiece that is both literate and homespun, with touches of irony throughout.   The first four tracks’ “Better […]

Geffen It’s hard to hate an album when the hottest bassist in rock history tells her daughter “you keep me coming home again” while Thurston Moore and Lee Ranaldo tightly wind the baby’s stationary with deft riffs, classic Sonic Youth guitar atmospherics  and drums that rumble and subdue with ease.   But this album isn’t […]