Radiohead

Radiohead was one of the few alternative bands of the early '90s to draw
heavily from the grandiose arena rock that characterized U2's early albums.
But the band internalized that epic sweep, turning it inside out to tell tortured, twisted tales of angst and alienation. Vocalist Thom Yorke's pained lyrics were brought to life by the group's three-guitar attack,which relied on texture -- borrowing as much from My Bloody Valentine and Pink Floyd as R.E.M. and Pixies -- instead of virtuosity.

Formed by school friends in 1986, Radiohead did not release their first single
until 1992. "Creep", from their debut album Pablo Honey (1993), became a worldwide hit, the grunge genre then at the peak of its popularity.

Radiohead were initially branded as a one-hit wonder abroad, but they caught on at home in the UK with a second album, The Bends (1995), earning fans with their dense guitar atmospheres and frontman Thom Yorke's expressive singing.The band's third album OK Computer (1997) propelled them to greater attention;
popular both for its expansive sound and its themes of modern alienation,
it has been acclaimed by critics as a landmark record of the 1990s. With Kid A (2000)
and Amnesiac (2001), Radiohead reached their peak global popularity even as
their music became less conventional.

From May to June 2006, Radiohead toured England and major cities in Europe and North America.Radiohead premiered 10 new songs on its 2006 tour: "Bangers 'n' Mash", "Open Pick", "15 Step", "4 Minute Warning", "Spooks", "Bodysnatchers", "Go Slowly", "Videotape", "Down Is The New Up" and "All I Need". According to interviews, these represent only part of the newly written material. Radiohead will spend the rest of the year recording their new material in preparation for a new release in 2007.Official site

Modern Music Radiohead albums:
radiohead - pablo honey
radiohead - bends
radiohead - ok computer
radiohead - kid
radiohead - amnesiac
radiohead - hail to thief
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Top 10 Radiohead Songs

Lambchop - Damaged

This is the tenth album for the very large Nashville band led by Kurt Wagner.
"Damaged"(2006) continues in the quiet and haunting tradition pioneered on the past three Lambchop albums ("Is A Woman", "Aw C'mon", and "No You C'mon").

Rating:7.5/10
Modern Music Review:
Opening three powerful wistful tracks Paperback Bible(a long song which can change your state of mind),Prepared (wonder orchestra tunes),The Rise And Fall Of The Letter P(airy guitars which belong th other world)...

It is certain you'll like the album if you are interested in slow tempho Chamber Pop.
"Damaged" depicts melody of loneliness with its lyrics,music portrays wheather of country somehow. "A Day Without Glasses" is a song that features atmospheric alternative country and piano combinations.

There are strong connection between songs and compositions. Listening the entire
album without a brake explains 'why you should love this album?'.

'A profound melancholy suffuses the elegant and often sublime Damaged'.The Guardian

Independent pianos, trembling vocals..."Damaged" is as moving and accomplished
an album as this band has ever made. Including melodic songs like "Beers Before The Barbican"
and "I Would Have Waited Here All Day" makes "Damaged" standout album by Lambchop.

MM picks:The Rise And Fall Of The Letter P,I Would Have Waited Here All Day
Official Lambchop site
Also you may like:
Tindersticks - Curtains

top new modern rock songs

1.Bonnie 'Prince' Billy - cursed sleep
2.Steely dan - Do it again
3.Sleepy jackson - god lead your soul
4.Luna - Lovedust
5.Tv on the radio - Wolf Like Me
6.Radio birdman - you just make it worse
7.Primal Scream - Dolls
8.Pete Yorn - For Us
9.Kasabian - Empire
10.The Raconteurs - hands

You can listen Pete Yorn's new rocking single from his myspace page.Also Sleepy jackson's new single is 'devil was in my yard' had been a great choice i had listened this song several times before,containing Beach Boys and George Harrison tunes.There are other good singles Mogwai's Friend Of The Night The Feeling's Never Be Lonely but they didn't getplaced Modern Music Top 10 this week.I had a chance to hear Tv on the radio's new release "Return to Cookie Mountain",and it sounds terrific.

Teenage Fanclub:What You Do to Me [US]

Cover Song!Life's A gas(Marc Bolan)
This Ep including great Marc Bolan song Life's A gas performed by
Teenage Funclub,sounds entertaining,another noisy guitar song 'Like a Virgin'.Maybe you haven't listened these great songs but you must hear Satan version of 'What You Do to Me' this version is ending with noisy guitar,the most pleasant song of the EP.Long Hair which is composed by Gerard Love features great guitars solos and spinings.

Meaningful lyrics,beautiful guitars which are generally sizzling,What You Do To Me (1992 USA cds) gives a short pure listen.
www.teenagefanclub.com

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Sonic Youth - Murray Street
Nirvana - Hormoaning

Audioslave - Revelations

Rating: 4/10
Modern Music Review:
Audioslave returns with their new release Revelations(2006). After their 2002 debut album Audioslave and following this with Out Of Exile, they show they didn't tire of same screamer vocals, Tom Morello's riffs, plus they added new dance beats into their post-grunge, hard rock style.In a recent interview on the Opie and Anthony radio show, guitarist Tom Morello said that the album would feature ‘funky grooves’ that are similar to those of Led Zeppelin and Earth, Wind & Fire. Funk grooves can be seen in songs 'One and the same','Sound of a gun'.

'Despite Mr. Cornell’s budding outrage, and the band’s attempts to funk up its sound, “Revelations” has a tentative, unfinished air.'The New York Times (5/10)

I'm sure that you'll love "Revelations" or you'll hate. Main reasons for loving this album are Chris Cornell's powerful vocals,Tom Morello's rocking riffs, inventive solos but on the other hand you can find Cornell's vocals too screamer, digressive or Morello's same guitar spinnings on the album is a reason for stoping to listen this new album.

'Excruciating fret wankery... appalling metal funk... and Chris Cornell 'singing' like a castrated gibbon throughout. 'New Musical Express (3/10)

First impressions:I don't want to be cruel but i didn't find anything special with this new record of Audioslave. In my opinion, The album which seemed rushed has same impact on me again like Out Of Exile- a waste of time. Songs like "Somedays" which is a real torment screaming 'Somedaysss,Somedaysss'. In addition, songs aren't memorable or vivid. Only some customary Audioslave solos plus dominant Cornell vocals.
Revelations may be a new joy for Audioslave fans, but nothing more.
MM picks:One and the same,Wide awake,Nothing left to say but goobye
www.audioslave.com

Barry Adamson - Stranger on The Sofa

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The producer and former Bad Seeds member(also formerly of Magazine) returns with his first solo disc in four years.

With 1998's As Above, So Below, he moved away from the soundscape-soundtrack-without-a-movie
oriented conceptual work he'd been doing since the beginning of his solo career to engage in a more song-based approach.This followed on The King of Nothing Hill in 2002, and on 2006's Stranger on the Sofa, he moves back a step in order to take two forward.

Rating:8/10
Modern Music Review:
Opening track which telling a story by Anna Chancellor along with
dark soundscapes is forerunner of the good songs in the album . Subsequent to "The long way back again" sounds acustic and lovely song about being far away your home. There's so much more with Stranger on the Sofa. "Officer Bentley's fairly serious dilemma" including different beats, weird and somewhere between guitar spinnings around gangster-like atmosphere.

"Who Killed Big Bird" keeps the 60s instrumental jazz melodies, sudennly sound
changes with "Theresa Green". It sounds more habitual emotional song which is swimming alternative pop/rock pool. This song is a clear reason to warm up "Stranger on the Sofa" impact on you.
"My friend the fly" and "You sold your dreams" have same Barry Adamson difference, creativity.
This three songs have deep vocals and alternative music combinations with Barry's talented taste in music. Adorable acid jazz rhythms with "My friend the fly" and great piano attractions by song named "Inside of your head" which song is perfect and captures cirque ambiance middle of it,no more words are needed.

"Stranger on The Sofa" proves again what an unnerving space the interior of his head must be.

"Stranger on The Sofa" can be noted Barry Adamson's best solo project,also the record features too many different music styles: jazz, post-rock, alternative pop ,experimental.

MM song picks:You sold your drems,Inside of your head,Who killed Big Bird?
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Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - The Boatman's Call

Wistful Sound Gazers:Bliss

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Underground Bands
Wistful Sound Gazers debut release "Bliss"(2000) including six tracks EP which are
eye catching different melodies.Bliss blends the sounds of ambient rock with
classic soul,jazz.

MM review:
"Bliss" is a successful independent record which you can listen several times
without any unwillingness.Melodies are perfect and protean,totally restful listen.
"Bliss" creates an ethereal mood which sustains itself from beginning of the Ep
tp the final instrumental cut.All the songs have their own character which holds
you and grow on you rapidly.Don't be surprised when you are listening first
Wistful Sound Gazers music.Thats why i love underground bands.They always make
me surprised with their determined works.

Tracks:
"Bliss" opening with classic soul tunes "Push" including back female vocals.
"Calling" Glamorous soul vocals joins wistful acustic guitars.Airy vocals stop the
time and acustic guitars ride the song.
"i would" has the most distinct soulful harmonies.
"Winding Road" features impresive vocal performance (Ron Christopher) with magnificent hoarse electric guitar.
"On" is the fastest work of "Bliss",it's brilliant and entertaining composition.
Also there is a great instrumental work of Winding Road at the end of record.
Wistful Sound Gazers combines classic soul vocals with soft rock and adult contemporary tunes.

Now Discover and listen songs of "Wistful Sound Gazers":
http://www.myspace.com/wistfulsoundgazers
MM song picks:Calling,Winding Road

New York Dolls - One Day It Will Please Us To Remember Even This

The new studio album "One Day It Will Please Us To Remember Even This"(2006)
captures the spirit of a band that had disappeared long before rock n roll became about big business, and presents the essence of fun, revelatory Rock N Roll in its purest form.

Modern Music Review
Rating:8/10
Eventually,i had a chance to write this review which i was waiting to write for long time,new studio album from New york Dolls without Johnny Thunders, Arthur Kane, and Jerry Nolan.
The first album in 32 years for the legendary glam-punk band
features guest appearances from Michael Stipe, Bo Diddley and Iggy Pop.Only David Johansen and Sylvain Sylvain return from the Dolls' original
lineup, however.

It's the kind of rollicking, party-rockin' fandango which, genuinely, nobody has the spirit or wit to put together these days.Observer Music Monthly

Album opening(We're all in love) and closing(Take a good look at my good looks) songs
are terrific,it's hard to listen such first class songs in these days.David Johanson and Syl Sylvain are more interested in
celebrating their survival with a little sass than rehashing the sonic
anarchy that made them.In song "Dancing on the Lip of a Volcano" Michael Stipe's back vocals are very impressive and well-matched.

if you're just looking for unending energy with 70s high tempo hard rock
tunes,"One Day It Will Please Us..." should be yours.Additionally,there are
emotional songs like Maimed happiness,Plenty of music.

This album takes its power from oldies and unites some innovation.It's never
old and it's not modernist too.It's what it should be.

With this new record The New York Dolls proves that the band hasn’t lost a step,
and they still have creative musician souls.

MM picks:Take a good look at my good
Also check out:
Johnny Thunders - Belfast Rocks (1984)
www.nydolls.org

Electric Six - Switzerland

Rating:3/10
Modern Music Review
Switzerland(2006) is the title slated for the third album by Detroit rock band Electric Six.
Maybe,this album is released to damage my brain with its awfully disco and garage
sounds.

Detroit's Electric Six offer up thirteen songs of all styles, sounds, genres, and themes. From the bouncy "I Buy The Drugs" to the Def Leppard/Journey-esque "Night Vision" to the super-smooth "Infected Girls", old school E6 mavens will find just the right amount of puerile yet groovy concoctions that make them want to become one with their aggression. It's a feel-good, drive-around-in-your-car-with-the-top-down summer staple.

There are too many different styles and different sounds but it shows us
it can turn a disadvantage when you use these styles in your music wastefully.

Meanwhile,There are only two apparent fine songs 'The Band In Hell' and 'Germans In Mexico'.
Their previous release "Señor Smoke" was Electric Six's strongest work but
"Switzerland" seems to be disappointment for the fans after "Señor Smoke".

'There's Something Very Wrong With Us So Let's Go Out Tonight' is a little good closing
song.But it isn't satisfying enough.
The official site:
www.electric6.com

Pete Yorn - Nightcrawler

On his third studio album, Nightcrawler(2006), New Jersey-born singer-songwriter Pete Yorn offers up another assured set of pop-savvy rock tunes, this time leaning toward a more robust sound. Although the potent, riff-laden single "For Us" is one of the record's most immediately accessible tracks, Yorn presents a wide range of enjoyable tunes here, from the jangly, propulsive "Undercover" to the chiming, buoyant "Maybe I'm Right" to the spare, wistful "Broken Bottle." Throughout Nightcrawler, Yorn's expressive vocals are well showcased, whether he's crooning gently or leading a raucous guitar-driven number. For fans, this outing reaffirms the notion that Yorn is one of the better songsmiths of his generation, while newcomers to his intelligent, refreshingly straight-ahead sound will finally see what the fuss is about.
Rating:5/10
MM review
Exhausting but good...Nightcrawler is an album which is hard to discover at your first listen,because of colourless guitars and unclear,faint Pete Yorn vocals.But i can't say the same things for tracks like "Same Thing","The man" quite good alternative melodies.It's still a hard listen for new listeners but i'm sure Pete Yorn fans love this new record.Also Warren Zevon cover "Splendid Isolation" is a good pop underground song which has very similar vocals with Gerard Love (Teenage Funclub).Extra,"Broken Bottle" has the best guitar chords however vocals hide its power.

'He tackles issues such as love, jealousy and immortality, crosses into genres like contemplative '60s folk ("Alive") and Spectorized R&B ("Georgie Boy"), and harmonizes with Dixie Chick Natalie Maines ("The Man")'.

MM picks:Same Thing,Splendid Isolation

R.E.M.

Short info:
R.E.M. mark the point when post-punk turned into alternative rock.When their first single, "Radio Free Europe," was released in 1981,it sparked a back-to-the-garage movement in the American underground.Full biography

Modern Music
R.e.m. is an incomparable band which you can listen everytime.It's sometimes comlicated,sometimes it's very pure.You can't even explain their musical impact on you when you're listening their music.Every people can find other new thing in their music.So what MM finds in their music:
Rousing,Restrained,melancholy but mostly newness ...can be added a lot of emotion.
In my opinion,the most appreciated side of them is they always change their musical style.So who wants to do always same thing?it's very boring,newness is always good.We change everyday,so there is no mean to live with past,but that doesn't mean you can forget about the past.R.e.m puts new materials their music everytime but they are always our R.e.m. with their musical legacy.

Modern music R.E.M. albums:
R.e.m. - Murmur
R.e.m. - Reckoning
R.e.m. - Lifes rich pageant
R.e.m. - Document
R.e.m. - Automatic for people
R.e.m. - New adventures in hi-fi

Official R.E.M. website

Modern Music Top 10 R.e.m. Songs:
1.West of the Fields
2.Drive
3.Nightswimming
4.Pretty Persuasion
5.Shiny Happy People
6.So. Central Rain
7.Leave
8.Harborcoat
9.We Walk
10.The One I Love