This debut from drummer-to-the-'90s-rock-stars Josh Freese delivers so much massive guitar pop that just a couple of listens will be enough to hook music fans looking to fill a hole in their collection of good-time pop-punk. With titles like "Rock and Roll Chicken" and "Why Won't Left Eye Get With Me," Freese's light-hearted solo sentiment is in stark contrast to the drummer's more celebrated employers, A Perfect Circle and latter-day Guns 'n' Roses. Headier tracks {&"Ass Backwar...   [ read more ]

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?Josh Freese likely called his second album Since 1972 because he's been on the earth since that year, but it's also true that the music on this 2009 LP celebrates the big, crunching glam rock that's been in place Since 1972. This is nothing but trashy good times, all fuzzy guitars, gigantic hooks and big backbeats, a record where a long song clocks in at three minutes and 30 seconds. Freese is self-aware as any good studio session musician should be -- he makes allusions to lots of his favorite music, wh...   [ read more ]

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Joey Santiago, guitar mangler for archetypal alt-rockers the Pixies, joins his signature squall with Linda Mallari, an energetic, classically-trained popster, to give you a peek at their album "Smitten" ? an album of unforgiving power-pop that howls like Siouxsie Sioux, drives like Veruca Salt, and, naturally, cracks open the Pixies' bone machine. Produced by Brad Cook and Blag Dahlia of the Greedy Brothers production team (Foo Fighters, the Distillers, Vandals, Ben Harper, Fishbone) and featuring the rhyt...   [ read more ]

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