My Chemical Romance - The Black Parade

My Chemical Romance have killed emo, and any preconceived ideas about them should be considered along with it.
Connection between Queen's classic "A Night At The Opera" is open and it's getting around new style trends The Black Parade (24 October 2006).

Rating:3/10
Modern Music Review

Queen style guitar solos,exausting loudy teenage style vocals and with a thin voice Na-na-na-na's...it caused irresistible headaches on me.On the other hand it's so profound, believe me this heavy metal influenced pop-punk melodies act like a killer (This Is How I Disappear).
This ambition is too much for My Chemical Romance and it blows away.
Freddie Mercury's that unbelieveable control in rock scene is completely incontrovertible,those
pianos, opera style vocals, glam rock oriented guitar solos...

At this point,it's hard to say same flattering words about My Chemicals, because
most of songs sound like Queen plus only some of poor quality rhytmic guitars, screaming
vocals.I listen and listen again to kill my subjectivity, its poor vocal performance explodes front of loud guitar solos.Think it's an advantage to ack like a legend band Queen, i hate this
tactic just as Green Day did (They stole from Sex Pistols).Of course they'll influence
but they do not need to steal. Here's a rule to survive with your music,be original!
It's the golden rule!Screaming, playing guitar like a fool simply isn't rock n' roll or
anything in rock. It's rule of buying a new car, maybe MTV can give it you by Pimp My Ride!
Oh my ears; He's singing like OOhoohoooo...(Disenchanted).
I prefer more listening some Black Metal bands than listen some commercial teenage minded effort.

Is that "Mama" sound very similar with Gogol bordello's "Start Wearing Purple"? It's the
only song which fits with Gerard Way's voice, so they do a gypsy punk album next, who knows?
By the way, they recall Queen style opera vocals in that one too.They sound as everyband,
it's hard to choose the tunes, vocals, guitar -- usually exhausting, complicated and
embarrassing!

This is the kind of music for people who don't listen old icons such as Queen.
They only know a few about them, but they call themselves as a fan? The only thing
that i found is loud, i can use it to drive someone crazy. That's why i gave a three (I may
give a zero).

MM picks:Mama
Listen:Welcome to the Black Parade

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Official website

The Zutons - It's the Little Things We Do

Single Review
The Zutons release a new single It's the Little Things We Do,taken from their second album "Tired Of Hanging Around". This third single which is the most standout work of the album with its guitar chord progression.It sounds clearer than previous ones Valeria and Why wont You Give Me Your Love.Lyrics are about routine rock themes wine, woman, cigarettes, going out at nights and after all, being alone with repentance in your brain. The real potential in this song is amazing accord between lyrics and music themes,seemingly guitars are telling the same remorse. Lyrically,though it's incuding some rambunctious verse, It's commonly showing exhausted feeling or emotion.

'So I get up and go down the stairs and try to make a sandwich But the ham and cheese, margarine they speak an evil language It says "Don't eat me I don't deserve to be there in your stomach"'

"It's the Little Things We Do" is a fastmoving and nice expression with its good-balanced simplicity, manifest listen. It's a little melodic story about you have to pay for all the good times that you had.
The Zutons Band Site

Thermals - The Body, the Blood, the Machine

Rating:6.7/10
Modern Music Review
Indie Rock
Something coming from pleasure of being independent upon temperature punk-inspired indie rock.
On these 10 tracks, produced by Fugazi drummer Brendan Canty.

Modern music recommends this one strongly to taste them with The Walkmen,Art Brut and Band Of Horses.

First everything started as i was having my couple of tea in some kind of sleepy sadcore mode.I was wishing to listen from my cult dream pop album coll. but i changed the decision and had a go with Thermals' 2006 record "The Body The Blood The Machine".
Like a dormant animal i was waiting an action comin' up to rescue me from this sh*t.
That's for sure i wasn't an easy boy that i wouldn't be impressed some loud punk-indie
rock combined melodies.Then suddenly,i realized that obtuse lyrics were very harmonious with
that loud guitars.It took my attention then i gave it re-listen.

Meanwhile,Discovered three great song in order I Might Need You To Kill,Test Pattern,Saint Rosa And The Swallows and the rest of them are complementary.Hutch Harris' insistent vocals, politic diction, straight head indie punk guitar tunes are the particular fidelities on this record.
As their guitar lines are falling down and make any sense (Back To The Sea),vocal repeats itself
but it's clearing these problem by the good ones (Power Doesn't Run On Nothing).

Thermals's new record which is previously released on August 22,sweeping their previous "Fuckin A" (2004), More Parts Per Million (2003) with its non-stop energy and pure noise and arty experimentalism.
Oh,you didn't hear the end of story,once again i turned back listening my old classic rock
heroes...but it was pleasure.
MM picks:Saint Rosa And The Swallows
mp3:Test Pattern
Thermals bandsite You may also like:Band of Horses

New Modern Rock Songs!

1. Robyn Hitchcock - Adventure Rocket Ship
2. Lloyd Cole - Travelling Light
3. Arab Strap - Rocket, Take Your Turn
4. The Decemberists - o Valencia
5. The Walkmen - Many Rivers to Cross
6. The Hold Steady - Chips Ahoy!
7. Killers - When You Were Young
8. Bluetones - My Neighbour's House
9. Pernice Brothers - Somerville (New!)
10. Lemonheads - Become the Enemy (New!)

Ten captivating song which were chosen from new singles.I've
been listening Lemonheads' new record and i highly recommend it.
In the ten years since the last record, Evan Dando has released one solo LP,
2003's acclaimed 'Baby I'm Bored'.Now I'm really happy to see their back.
Thank you and keep up reading!

The Lemonheads - Lemonheads

Rating:8.9/10
Modern Music Review
College Rock, Punk-Pop
They mostly influenced by American post-punk bands of the '80s
such as rocking Husker-Du,traditional and modern sounded R.E.M., further to that cult rock idol Neil Young .The long awaited release of The Lemonheads newest release;the first in close to 10 years!

This time it's not sloby,quite rocking eleven Lemonhead songs which are so feral yet so tight.They're growing on me and it's reasonable to mark this new record as their one of best The Lemonheads effort.Absorbing melodic hooks are great and it's rocking time.Quite noisy and intentive guitar solos mainly appear in Baby's Home,Steve's Boy,December.

This ain't one-way album,its path passing by country, alt-rock ,grunge and punk genres,also familiar with college rock (Become The Enemy,Pittsburgh). Comparison sound of "The lemonheads" with Buffalo Tom,The Replacements,Nirvana,Dinosaur Jr. wouldn't be wrong.As an example the sounds in "Let's Just Laugh",it proves that these are very mixed tunes,getting around Hardcore punk,post-punk where it gets connected with Mission of Burma's never stop heavy post-punk roots.

"Rule Of Three","In Passing" are my personal favorites,mostly includes guitar pop melodies
where we get used to listen a bunch of them from Teenage Funclub.Song by song i love them and till the end of the record still have the same feelings.Providing amazing guitar solos to backround of songs couldn't be so impressive.
All melodic,all clear almost perfect!
MM picks:Baby's Home,In Passing,December
Listen:Become The Enemy,No Backbone (downloadable)
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Sean Lennon - Friendly Fire

Rating:6/10
Modern Music Review
Pop/Rock
As the son of John Lennon, perhaps the most beloved Beatle, and avant-garde musician Yoko Ono, Sean Lennon was a celebrity before he had even begun his recording career.

The singer's first album in eight years followed “Into the Sun” and “Half Horse Half Musician” also includes instrumental help from Jon Brion and Matt Chamberlain, as well as guitarist Harper (son of Paul) Simon.

It was sure He would compose sad,angry and calm melodies because it’s in his gene which come from majestic,legend father John Lennon.From the beginning and till the end “Friendly Fire” keeps lush warm pop and eclectic roots.Eclectic, i said because they mostly sound like composed by someone else just as voice of John Lennon, magnificence of Beach boys.There aren’t anything unusual when you’re listening, some easygoing,all the same songs. There isn't much style variety among the songs; they basically all sound similar.

Lyrically, humble and resigned to a fault.You won’t even notice that you’re playing the last song.It tries to enter to your brain through the door of brain but no success. If he had known that,how to put various and some different songs to the album, he would have decided differently.As a listener,I want emotion, humour, authentic shortly some colours of life.It’s dull to live with only one colour,grey! However this is worth to listen.

It’s time to listen easygoing ten songs of Sean Lennon if it doesn’t include much style, a straight spin!
MM picks:Wait For Me,Spectacle
Listen:Parachute, Headlights
Sean Lennon Page

Ben Kweller - Ben Kweller

A true solo effort, this self-titled release finds the 25-year-old Kweller handling all of the instrumentation himself for the first time but Are the results better?
Rating:5/10
Modern Music Review
Indie Rock

Direct to subject,Yep!,there are even cheerful pop melodies but it's not posible to see manifest stripe of color or walk around top points.These are all should be future aims for Ben Kweller.Sometimes repeating some words had been used for to cover incomplete sides of the songs.

'All around this room tonight woohoo wooho!' Lyrics look really tired,it was a rainy day,so
i need to get rid of it,but it seems that imposible with "Nothing happening".
Here's song about 'Nothing is Happening,it's all ilusion,Nothing is Happening,it's all confusion.'
repeat it more than five times!Good but it doesn't work!No I'm not insensitive,
but ain't dishonest too.No need to tell all albums great! For instance,"Run" and "I Gotta Move"
quite colourful melodies notwithstanding i didn't like the lyrics. It proves that
everyone can't write lyrics but they make music with combining some noises, sounds...
In future,we'll see that everybody has an album.

'For the most part, Ben Kweller simply suggests Jackson Browne reared on Weezer.'Uncut

"I Gotta Move" is one of that ok tunes emphasizing some pretty electric guitar acts, but it's not enough.Ben has a good voice and using it clearly (Thirteen).But the songs in this "Ben kweller" don't have the right clue,not haunting or adoring.My sleep was came when i was listening and sleep was saying to me: 'It's dull dude,it's dull!' Of course i liked a couple of songs bu nothing more.Some good guitar chords in song "Magic" seems to be taken from Arctic Monkeys' well-known hit "When the sun goes down".

"Ben Kweller" is a good album in appearance!It needs more ...,weaker than accustomed to indie pop scene.Still "Sha Sha"(2002) his best.One really good song,some ok and the rest averege.

MM picks:I Don't Know Why
Mp3:I Gotta Move,I Don't Know Why
Ben Kweller Official
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Asobi Seksu - Citrus

Rating:7.9/10
Modern Music Review
Three bold line post-punk/shoegaze/dream pop and combination these flying styles plus dream of Japanese and English female vocal with bright and tuneful voice.Ladies and gentlemen,Asobi
Seksu!(it's claimed to be a Tokyo-based slang term that means "playful sex"),Front based New York guitar noise acts ranging Sonic Youth,Yo La Tengo!Citrus (2006) is quite yummy for '90s My Bloody Valentine, Lush, Moose, Chapterhouse, Luna, Galaxie 500 listeners or fans.

They mostly seem recalling 80s dream pop tunes like Elizabeth Fraser(Cocteau Twins) kind of vocals,They had stolen some cookie from 90s british pop acts like Lush and some heavy noisy pies from famous shoegaze idol My Bloody Valentine.The most avant-garde side of them is the heavy Japanese pop influences and mix this into the noise elements of shoegaze invasion. The result is absolutely pleasing.Songs like "Strawberries","Strings","Pink Cloud Tracing Paper" are obsessively inescapable,and songs like "New Years","Goodbye","Red Sea" are openly sparking,the melody comes from sun,power of sunshine.Yuki Chikudate is warming up you with her voice but it's weird atmosphere always cool because of the noises.Songs are starting to play clearly but near to end they're becaming very complicated,paralyzing (Lions and Tigers,Strings,Red Sea).

I knew it,it's the sound of playful sex.Besides the influences, they sound really attractive.If you're very selective listener,you notice some taken riffs from 90s shoegaze bands but anyhow they express strong sympathy with this new album "Citrus".You'll have something to say if you listen.Now,Do you have something to say about Citrus?
MM picks:Strings,Pink Cloud Tracing Paper,Lions and Tigers
Mp3:Pink Cloud Tracing Paper (...),New Years (...)
You may also like:Mojave 3
Asobi Seksu Page

Jarvis Cocker - Jarvis

Jarvis is the debut solo album by Jarvis Cocker. It is due for relese in the UK on 13 November 2006.
Rating:7.8/10
Modern Music Review
Indie Rock
At least i had a chance to listen Jarvis new debut "Jarvis" for several times.At first sight we can all say it's a totally pretty album for Pulp fans.It sounds little more indie but great to hear old Jarvis style vocals at any cost.From this point this album seems to follow lazy tunes where we used to listen in "We Love Life".Again i can say this album isn't pretentious like "We Love Life" or other top Pulp albums (Different class,This is a Hardcore) but there is a truth it should exist in your music archive.Difference of this debut, it includes more adult alternative tunes with its lyrics,ambience and flow.

More you listen more you get in, so it isn't a kind of album which you love at your first spin.
There aren't one-way feelings then it sounds energic,playful(fat children) sometimes
elegant (baby's coming back to me) because of the vocals.

Middle age influenced lyrics and bewitching "Disney time" one of the front work and that's for
sure you'll be pleased to spend time with this song,gorgeous!I want to see good sides of the works,of course no need to say 'that song sucks' or 'this isn't perfect because of that song',because we all know that can't be perfect!Believe me it's a good taste,it isn't a waste of time.Jarvis Cocker has been in too many fights in music to prove himself and He did it.Artistically,"Jarvis" is one of that stars which is shining brightly.
MM picks:Heavy weather,Disney time
Mp3:Black Magic, Fat Children

• Running the world - Jarvis Cocker (YouTube)
  
• Jarvis Cocker's myspace page