Alternative rock (also called alternative music, alt rock or simply alternative) is a genre of rock music that emerged from the independent music underground of the 1980s and became widely popular by the 1990s.
“We are defined by the fact that we can’t be defined by anybody,” says Matt Bellamy, the singer-guitarist-pianist of Muse, as he runs down the range and nerve of the British trio’s new album, The 2nd Law, out in October. “There are electro-pop sounds and songs that are obviously classic rock,” Bellamy notes, referring to the machine-funk nightmares “Madness” and “Panic Station” and, in the latter category, “Big Freeze” and his lead-guitar blowup in “Animals.”
“Then there are the orchestral things,” he adds over lunch in New York: the strings-choir-and-metal “Survival,” already a hit as an official Olympic theme song, and the symphonic chaos of the two-part title suite. The 2nd Law would sound like “three different bands,” Bellamy contends, “if it wasn’t for my voice.”
Band The Minutes
Info: Marcata
Style: Hard/Garage Rock/Alternative
Info: Ireland
Years: 2011
Info: Lossless/FLAC (tracks+.cue)
Rip By: Badeny/karmacreep
Info: 265 Mb
Chaos Killed’s sophomore album, is a war torn, universal scale concept album exploring the path to “Singularity”.
1. R.E.L.I.C.
2. Regenesis
3. Rack and Ruin
4. Crusader
5. Decay (Beneath the Salt)
6. Omega Point
This long awaited debut EP from New York City based Modern Rock outfit, JANUARY JANE, features a killer mix of hard driving Rock, super catchy Ballads, and even some modern Instrumental Guitar Shred work. “Happy music for the end of the world.”
1. Fallen So Far
2. Champagne Suicide
3. No More Last Times
4. Nothing Left
5. The Unknown
6. No More Last Times (Extended Cut)
7. Devouring Saturn
Band No Doubt
Info: Push And Shove [Deluxe Edition]
Years: 2012
Style: Alternative Rock / Pop Rock (Female Vocals)
Bitrate: mp3 / 320 kbps
Info: 206 Mb
Time: 01:27:29
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At what age does your feminist anger stop being qualified as “riot grrrl rage”? Kill My Blues,the Corin Tucker Band’s sophomore album, is being heralded as the former Sleater-Kinney bandleader’s default to her ’91 Olympia factory settings. This is a fantastic prospect surely stoking our 1990s nostalgia and wiping the weird taste of her previous album off our palates, but it doesn’t quite hold.
Tucker is now a grown-azz, 39-year-old woman, and on Kill My Blues she tackles topics that weren’t on her riot girl radar at 20: mortality, the joy of conception, how she could use a vacation. She is singing from the perspective of her life as the mother of two kids who’s maybe a little wistful for days when her life was a little more carefree and Joey Ramone was still above ground. Her rage is no more than that of any American who’s paying attention in 2012.
Letters From the Fire will release their new EP, ‘Rebirth‘, on September 18th
1. Remember Tomorrow
2. Ties We Sever
3. March of War
4. Torn
5. Let It Burn
California rockers PAPA ROACH will release their new album, “The Connection”, on October 2 via Eleven Seven Music. The CD was recorded at the band’s hometown studio, The Red House in Sacramento, California, and was produced by rock veteran James Michael (SIXX: A.M., HALESTORM) and John Feldmann (PANIC AT THE DISCO, THE USED, ESCAPE THE FATE).
The first single from “The Connection” is a track called “Still Swinging”, which many fans may have heard during last night’s Major League Baseball All Stars Home Run Derby on ESPN. The track will be featured byESPN/MLB in select games/events for the next few weeks.
A snippet of the track and behind-the-scenes footage of the band filming its video in New York City with David Brodsky of Brooklyn, New York’sMyGoodEye Music Visuals (HELLYEAH, THE BLACK DAHLIA MURDER,GOATWHORE, MUNICIPAL WASTE, SUFFOCATION) is available below.
American punk rock band No Doubt has released their latest reggae song, Push and Shove. It is the title track from the California band’s forthcoming album.
01. Settle Down
02. Looking Hot
03. One More Summer
04. Push And Shove
05. Easy
06. Gravity
07. Undercover
08. Undone
09. Sparkle
10. Heaven
11. Dreaming The Same Dream
Detonated out of their home town of Luton, this fresh faced quintet blend the dramatic flair of early Funeral For A Friend with the soaring pop nouse of Young Guns and My Chemical Romance. For every foot stamping chorus there is a majestic riff… for every infectious groove there is a lifting melody. Like Jimmy Eat World mashed into Thrice, this is intelligent, passionate music.
Formed in 2009, the band have already made their mark on the increasingly bright and exciting UK scene, having headlined the BBC Introducing Stage at this year’s Love Luton Festival, played shows with Enter Shikari, We are The Ocean, Young Guns, Deaf Havana, Don Broco, My Passion (and more) and been the first band EVER to play live on a BBC Introducing show.