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.
- The Strokes - 'Comedown Machine'
- Black Rebel Motorcycle Club - 'Specter at the Feast'
- 'Sound City: Real to Reel' Soundtrack
- How to Destroy Angels - 'Welcome Oblivion'
- Atoms for Peace - 'Amok'
- Eels - 'Wonderful, Glorious'
- Green Day - 'Tre!'
- Soundgarden - 'King Animal'
- Green Day - 'Dos!'
- Deftones - 'Koi No Yokan'
- Stone Sour - 'House of Gold & Bones - Part 1'
- Muse - 'The 2nd Law'
- Green Day - 'Uno!'
- Band of Horses - 'Mirage Rock'
- Dave Matthews Band - 'Away From the World'
- The Gaslight Anthem - 'Handwritten'
- The Offspring - 'Days Go By'
- Linkin Park - 'Living Things'
- All Rock Music CD Reviews
- Rock Album Release Dates
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.