Album and DVD Reviews
By Tim Grierson, About.com Guide
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.
- Slash - 'Apocalyptic Love'
- Garbage - 'Not Your Kind of People'
- Marilyn Manson - 'Born Villain'
- Jack White - 'Blunderbuss'
- Alabama Shakes - 'Boys & Girls'
- Shinedown - 'Amaryllis'
- Nickelback - 'Here and Now'
- 'Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds'
- Lou Reed and Metallica - 'Lulu'
- Coldplay - 'Mylo Xyloto'
- Jane's Addiction - 'The Great Escape Artist'
- Blink-182 - 'Neighborhoods'
- Wilco - 'The Whole Love'
- Staind - 'Staind'
- Red Hot Chili Peppers - 'I'm With You'
- Theory of a Deadman - 'The Truth Is...'
- Limp Bizkit - 'Gold Cobra'
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Under the Radar
You may not have heard of these bands yet, but these breakthrough albums might help launch them into the mainstream.
- Black Tide – 'Post Mortem'
- Black Stone Cherry - 'Between the Devil & the Deep Blue Sea'
- Bad City - 'Welcome to the Wasteland'
- Taddy Porter - 'Taddy Porter'
- Gaslight Anthem - 'American Slang'
- Band of Horses - 'Infinite Arms'
- Airbourne - 'No Guts. No Glory.'
- The Whigs - 'In the Dark'
- 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'
- Anberlin - 'New Surrender'
- Rehab - 'Graffiti the World'
- Thriving Ivory - 'Thriving Ivory'
Essential Albums
Read up on the most influential albums in contemporary rock music.
- Breaking Benjamin - 'Shallow Bay: The Best of Breaking Benjamin'
- Drive-By Truckers - 'Ugly Buildings, Whores & Politicians'
- 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.