Album and DVD Reviews
By Tim Grierson, About.com Guide to Rock Music
How's your favorite band's new CD? Which up-and-coming artists do you need to hear? Before you spend your hard-earned cash, check out these album and DVD reviews.
Recent Reviews
New rock albums come out each and every week. Keep up with the latest reviews here.
- Weezer - 'Raditude'
- Creed - 'Full Circle'
- Various Artists - 'New Moon' Soundtrack
- Dead by Sunrise - 'Out of Ashes'
- Alice in Chains - 'Black Gives Way to Blue'
- Breaking Benjamin - 'Dear Agony'
- Three Days Grace - 'Life Starts Now'
- Pearl Jam - 'Backspacer'
- Chevelle - 'Sci-Fi Crimes'
- Black Crowes - 'Before the Frost...Until the Freeze'
- Skillet - 'Awake'
- Third Eye Blind - 'Ursa Major'
- Collective Soul - 'Collective Soul (Rabbit)'
- Daughtry - 'Leave This Town'
- Tantric - 'Mind Control'
- The Dead Weather - 'Horehound'
- Adelitas Way - 'Adelitas Way'
- Killswitch Engage - 'Killswitch Engage'
- Wilco - 'Wilco (The Album)'
- Street Sweeper Social Club - 'Street Sweeper Social Club'
Under the Radar
You may not have heard of these bands yet, but these breakthrough albums might help launch them into the mainstream.
- The Sounds - 'Crossing the Rubicon'
- Loaded - 'Sick'
- Youth Group - 'The Night Is Ours'
- The Answer - 'Everyday Demons'
- These Green Eyes - 'Relapse to Recovery'
- State of Shock - 'Life, Love & Lies'
- Red - 'Innocence & Instinct'
- Glasvegas - 'Glasvegas'
- Crooked X - 'Crooked X'
- Black Stone Cherry - 'Folklore and Superstition'
- Anberlin - 'New Surrender'
- Rehab - 'Graffiti the World'
- Thriving Ivory - 'Thriving Ivory'
Essential Albums
Read up on the most influential albums in contemporary rock music.
- Incubus - 'Monuments and Melodies'
- Filter - 'The Very Best Things (1995-2008)'
- Nine Inch Nails - 'The Downward Spiral'
- Green Day - 'American Idiot'
- Limp Bizkit - 'Significant Other'
- Red Hot Chili Peppers - 'Blood Sugar Sex Magik'
- Foo Fighters - 'Foo Fighters'
- Queens of the Stone Age - 'R'
- Faith No More - 'Angel Dust'
- Oasis - '(What's the Story) Morning Glory?'
- Tool - 'Undertow'
- Soundgarden - 'Superunknown'
- Hole - 'Live Through This'
DVDs
See and hear your favorite artists with these concert DVD reviews.
