Tom Morello (Rage Against the Machine, The Nightwatchman) just can't keep his guitar to himself - he's got another new side project going on called Street Sweeper Social Club, this time with The Coup's Boot's Riley (yeah, I've never heard of him either, but then again I typically like music played with electric guitars).
Something just doesn't seem right about it though. The songs typically open with Tom's guitar ripping through your face as always, but the intensity drops as soon as Boots starts in on the mic.
It's kind of how I felt about Zach's (de la Rocha; Rage) side project One Day As A Lion. Zach brought it on the mic, but Jon Theodore ( ex- Mars Volta drummer) plays a pretty standard and boring drum line behind him, and the guitars sound like they are done by a computer.
I think that's why Tom and Zach went so well together in Rage...hopefully they'll figure that out sooner or later and end up on another album together.
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One of my favorite things in the world is 90's melodic skake-punk in the Bad Religion mold, which is why I went nuts when Swedish vetrans No Fun At All announced they would be throwing together a new album just a few short years after calling it quits.It's got all the layered buzz-saw guitars, melodic ooo's and ahhh's, and 2-minute song times (for the ADD-inclined) you've come to expect from the genre.
My favorite song by far on the album is called "Neverending Stream" and can be checked out here (avoid the accoustic version; it wasn't made for that). Awesome awesome AWESOME song.
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Next Week: Just got the new Green Day and Silversun Pickups albums and will put up something about those. If you haven't heard the new SS single, check it out below:
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