If you haven’t already, definitely check out the latest Seven Minute Silence album Light Will Come Next (iTunes | AmazonMP3).  It is a fantastic album, and it deserves a longer write-up on this blog.  In a nutshell, the album rocks out for a handful of tracks, mellows out with an acoustic number, rocks out again [...]

Seven Minute Silence’s album Light Will Come Next goes on sale at AmazonMP3 (and presumably also iTunes) today.  We’ll likely give this album a thorough review after a few MP3 “spins.”  From the samples at Amazon.com, the first four tracks are loud rockers, the fifth track “No One Returns” seems to be an acoustic number, [...]

Warning to concert goers:  Pearl Jam will spoil your expectations and warp your view on how long a great concert should last.  An average, non-festival Pearl Jam show contains a 15+ song main set, a 5+ song first encore, and a 5+ song second encore.  A good non-Pearl Jam show will probably have a main [...]

Early yesterday, I received a “trade email” (sometimes spammy, sometimes helpful) from Sony/Epic Records that announced the streaming-release of the late Michael Jackson’s latest song, “This Is It.”  The link opened up Windows Media Player, and the quality of the stream was less-than-ideal:  hisses, pops, and AM-radio fuzz.
Here’s a slightly better quality stream from MJ’s [...]

It’s been more than four days since the second Pearl Jam concert at the Gibson Amphitheatre, and I am still energized by the show.  Being a biased Pearl Jam fan for the past couple of decades, this concert review isn’t much of a “review” as it is a recap:
Outside the venue, artist Maxx242 began re-creating [...]

Unlike the Ten Club version of 2006’s self-titled Pearl Jam album, which arrived in the mail a few days before its official release, I am still waiting for my Ten Club-edition CD and LP to arrive.  The mail has already come and gone for Saturday, so I’ll have to wait until Monday for our physical [...]