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Week In Review – August 25-31
Another week has passed and it’s the last day of August…shit where has my summer gone. Week 5 out Week 10 until I should be cleared to play sports again…
School starts on Wednesday and look for the website to go into some sort of limbo, I’m terrible at time managing. Without further ado here are the week’s posts and whatever else is going on around the blogosphere.
Welcome our 3 new writers, Matt, Coko and Lu.
Stereolab – Chemical Chords by Matt- put this on my list of albums to check out
The Virgins – Coko questions their band name, from band pictures it looks like more of truthful confession
Endeverater – Kiss or Kill by Lu
Reviews:
Broadfield Marchers – The Invitable Continuing
London Zoo by The Bug – I gave it a 5/5 (am I giving out too many?), it is really is worthy of its critical acclaim
The Faint – Fasciinatiion – What’s with the I’s?
Island’s Arm Way
Mothlite – The Flax of Reverie – hopefully we can get an interview going Jess 
The Sleeping Years – We’re Becoming Islands One by One
Other:
Cutting Edge Music Fest Pt. 2
Hamlet 2 Review and Mini-Playlist – save your $$
Tropic Thunder Playlist and Review – Hilarious but offensive movie. I’m shameless when it comes to these playlists.
Joe reviews The Final Riot tour with headliners, Paramore.
The Microsoft Zune is Gangsta – Screw The Ipod – srsly
Ghalib reviews the Woodhands and Lioness show he saw last weekend.
News around the internet:
F Yeah Fest guys got beat up by Radiohead security with the cops watching. They recorded security beating up a patron excessively and security ran and beat them up for it.
The man behind AntiQuiet (or one of the writers) had his house stormed by FBI and he was formerly charged for posting tracks of Chinese Democracy. Chinese Democracy is the long awaited Guns n’ Roses album that has cost a reported 10 million or so. He faces a LONG prison sentence, releasing copyrighted work before it’s formerly released is really the problem. He did have it coming, especially living in the states. Slash isn’t rooting for him.
Some good discussion at the Elbo.ws forum. Way to hold us bloggers to standards Under the Dog.
Pitchfork ended the hype of Bloc Party’s Intimacy with a predicted 5.0-something score.
Endeverafter – Kiss or Kill
It’s been a really long time since I’ve heard a power ballad. Now, in the late eighties and these were common place, but since the death of mainstream hard rock and hair metal bands in the early nineties, the rock world has really been lacking in the power ballad department. About a week ago I heard “Next Best Thing” by a band called Endeverafter and thought I had gone back in time or was having some sort of acid flashback. Luckily, I was grounded firmly in the present and just happened to stumble across a band that must have the same influences as I do.The L.A. band Endeverafter released their debut album in “Kiss or Kill” in December of last year but it’s just now making it’s way into Canada and not only does it have a power ballad but also incredibly catchy, heavy choruses, solid thrashy guitar riffs and a singer who obviously loved the eighties as much as I did: with a voice reminiscent of Jani Lane, singer/guitarist Michael Grant leads the quartet and does the majority of the songwriting, strutting and swaggering.
The newest release off of the album “Baby, Baby, Baby” packs a punch with huge harmonies powering up the chorus. “He Said She Said”, “Poison” and “I Wanna Be Your Man” keep going in the same awesome vein, although sometimes the verses come off a bit Emo. I guess that’s one of the qualities of the album that will help to keep Endeverafter grounded in the present and hopefully expand them to a larger audience.
As mentioned earlier, “Next Big Thing” pays tribute to the power ballads of old while “Long Way Home”, although slower comes off as much more contemporary.
The early nineties and the onset of the Grunge movement killed the eighties hard rock phenomenon but I feel like it also killed the rock attitude and the fist pumping, head banging arena rock spirit. Endeverafter manages to recapture this rock vibe in a way that current bands rarely do. Granted, I am sure that not everyone is down with all of the hair metal that was obviously a huge influence on this band and although the look and style of the band is definitely rock and roll, their sound although paying tribute to the past, is definitely living in the present.
