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Bruce Springsteen – Wrecking Ball

By David Fricke | Albums, Reviews March 19, 2012

★★★★★ (Columbia) Wrecking Ball is the most despairing, confrontational and musically turbulent album Bruce Springsteen has ever made. He is angry and accusing in these songs, to the point of exhaustion, with grave reason. The America here is a scorched earth: razed by profiteers, and suffering a shameful erosion in truly democratic values and national [...]

New Reviews: Pink Floyd Expand ‘The Wall’

By David Fricke | Albums, Reviews February 29, 2012

Pink Floyd - The Wall The Immersion Edition

Pink Floyd – The Wall: Immersion Edition (4.5/5) Capitol / EMI There was agreement, at first. In the summer of 1978, Roger Waters, Pink Floyd‘s singer-bassist and primary songwriter, presented the other members with two sets of demos and a choice: Pick one for the next album. The rest of the Floyd wisely voted for [...]

Exclusive: Why R.E.M. Are Calling It Quits

By David Fricke | Featured Artist, Features November 05, 2011

R.E.M. Record In Bryan Adam's Recording Studio

After 31 years, America’s alternative-rock kings hang up their crown

Bjork – Biophilia

By David Fricke | Albums, Reviews November 03, 2011

★★★★
(Nonesuch)

Come for the iPad gimmick, stay for the eerie brilliance

The Return of The Cars

By David Fricke | Features August 25, 2011

After 24 years, the ultimate New Wave hit machine roars back onto the road

The Radical Rebirth of the Red Hot Chili Peppers

By David Fricke | Features July 04, 2011

With a new guitarist and killer new LP, the Chilis blast back into action

Exclusive: Metallica and Lou Reed Join Forces on New Album

By David Fricke | News & Updates June 16, 2011

It was an improbable match: Lou Reed‘s cutting-monotone voice and explicit stories of desire and despair, lashed to Metallica‘s apocalyptic charge. It is now a perfect fit. In a recent rapid series of sessions at Metallica’s studio north of San Francisco, the New York king of avant-rock and the world’s bestselling thrash-metal band have recorded a [...]