The Sound News

Released: Nov 2, 2009 Genre: Pop Rock Label: Geffen Number Of Tracks: 10 Weezer's 7th studio album features no shortage of quirky themes, but this time around it all feels a bit forced.

Switchfoot's evolution has been a slow, but steady one. In the past decade, they've established a consistent sound while continuing to innovate and grow with each album.

Released: Feb 19, 2008 Genre: Alternative Rock, Pop Punk Label: Fearless / Kick Rock Music Number Of Tracks: 11 This is the debut album of a young band, but that doesn't change the fact that their music and abilities is great.

IT is sometimes easy to miss the music in films, while wrapped up in the drama of a scene on the big screen.

Released: May 13, 2008 Genre: Alternative Rock Label: Universal Number Of Tracks: 12 You can hear a catchy pop styled hook there, a heavy guitar riff there, a meld of the best of rock and pop.

Prior to his rape days, director Roman Polanski made a confession to Newsweek about his film Chinatown that few artists ever make: "I love clichs!" Well, Denver band The Wearings apparently loves them as well.

Flying Machines recently won Converse's "Get Out of the Garage" nationwide battle of the bands contest.

The system was designed for flexibility and could be easily adapted into different configurations to accommodate the specific needs of each artist and to cover a variety of audience sizes One of Europe's largest festivals for jazz, soul, and pop rock music, BW-Bank jazzopen stuttgart 2009 recently concluded after 11 days of live concerts, featuring ...

Smithereens drummer and vocalist Dennis Diken has teamed with multi-instrumentalist Pete DiBella to create one of the year's most shimmering re-creations of anything-goes, late-'60s pop rock.

Released: Sep 22, 2009 Genre: Rock, Pop Rock Label: EMI, Meteor Records Number Of Tracks: 10 Although the Flying Machines have been compared to a variety of contemporary bands, the Ben Folds reference is perhaps the most fitting on their debut record overall: 8 Featured review by: UG Team , on october 14, 2009 0 of 0 people found this review ...

Hope Sandoval comes to the Loft on Oct. 16. It's a week of '90s nostalgia and masculine/feminine dichotomy with many of this week's concert picks.

Love and Curses The Reigning Sound The first Reigning Sound studio album in five years isn't as sonically arresting as 2004's Too Much Guitar .

New EP Available on Sound Records 9/29/09 Underground heroes Keith Murray and Canibus define a ' Power.

Though Nelo moved to Athens, Ga., to establish its sound, the quintet returned to Texas in 2007 as finalists in ACL's inaugural Sound and the Jury competition, then released its eponymous debut the next year on Justice Records.

Details: 6:30 p.m. Sunday. Ford Amphitheatre, 4802 U.S. 301 N, Tampa. $20-$68. 740-2446. Today, pop-punk bands burst on the scene faster than those Bring It On sequels go to DVD.

Singer/songwriter and Michigan native Brendan Benson has probably become most well known as Jack White's wingman in The Raconteurs, although he had three intelligent and innovative, as well as critically acclaimed, solo albums before joining the quartet.

Scary Fragile, Australian singer/songwriter Butterfly Boucher's second album, is a scattered collection of quasi pop-rock that is, inexplicably, catchy and irritating, sweet and contrived, innovative and overdone.

Still more suggested shows from our music writers: Friday Los #3 Dinners The Grill at Leon Springs The Dinners continue their 30th anniversary world tour of San Antonio by spreading the garage-rock gospel outside the Loops.

Released: Sep 25, 2008 Genre: Rock Label: April Smith Number Of Tracks: 5 If Joss Stone and Regina Spektor are the forerunners of modern cabaret rock then Brooklyn based singer-songwriter April Smith is their soul sister.

Ita s beautiful, ita s melodic and an easy listen, but if Moneen fans are looking for more of the banda s usual sound on the banda s new album, they wona t find it here.