Category: New Release
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Album Review: Hawthorne Heights ‘Hate’
Hate is Hawthorne Heights‘ first release on their own Cardboard Empire imprint since their departure from Wind-up Records. It is only the first installment of a trilogy of EP’s the band plans on releasing. Each will arrive every 4-5 months while they embark on a string of tours in between. On first listen, I kept…
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Album Review: Dan Andriano In The Emergency Room ‘Hurricane Season’
It’s appropriate that 2011 has already seen a disc of acoustic Alkaline Trio hits, ‘Damnesia‘. While the group has never been strangers to stripping things down and unplugging, it was refreshing to hear a different approach to old favorites for an entire album. It also helped to prepare us for the solo debut from the…
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Album Review: Iwrestledabearonce ‘Ruining It For Everybody’
Iwrestledabearonce defy classification. Any sincere attempts to do so will either be woefully vague and inaccurate or will border on a run-on sentence. Their second full length for Century Media, ‘Ruining It For Everybody’ will ruin a lot of things for a lot of people. Many fans of straightforward metal will continue to be enraged…
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DVD Releases 7/19/11
Whether it’s comedy, science fiction/addiction drama or terrible action, any and all of these moods can be satisfied by the offerings that arrive on DVD July 19th. Limitless – Bradley Cooper is still riding high on ‘The Hangover.’ Here, he plays a downtrodden writer (a redundant statement if ever there was one) named Eddie who…
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‘Rango’ and ‘Arthur’ released on 7/15/11
July 15th is a rare creature indeed: a Friday release date. The two entries may actually earn some attention for themselves, which is always a desirable attribute. Why these particular titles were chosen is anybody’s guess, but oh well. Rango – Johnny Depp is always a huge draw, even as the voice of an animated…
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Album Review: Alkaline Trio ‘Damnesia’
Damnesia is album number eight for everyone’s favorite battery-powered punk band, the Alkaline Trio. Loaded with acoustic versions of some of their most well known and beloved songs along with two new ones, “Olde English 800” and “I Remember a Rooftop”, the collection also includes a cover of the Violent Femmes’ “I Held Her in…
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Upcoming DVD Releases 7/12/11
With summer’s greatest holiday behind us, we can get back to focusing exclusively on new movies. This week offers up a thriller, some horror, an inexpensive comedy and a few foreign films. The Lincoln Lawyer – Matthew McConaughey stars as a lawyer who operates out of his Lincoln Town Car. He is researching a murder…
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Upcoming DVD Releases 7/5/11
Welcome to July, everyone! With all of these releases being due out the day after the 4th of July, there is a good chance that a lot of you will still be stuffed from your weekend barbecues and in no mood to actually be productive members of society. Perhaps you stayed up late watching/playing with…
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