Rachel Rocks the Reviews - 05/25/10

I came across this band on one of my many adventures online. Paramore is one of my favorite groups to consistently listen to and always enjoy their music. I was researching bands that have opened for them in previous years, they are notorious for including new and up in coming bands. Now Now Every Children recently opened for them (along with Paper Route, which I talked about last post) during their recent European tour. Friends with my sister was the first song I came across and immediately fell in love with the style and the music. Their cd Cars has been in my car cd player on constant repeat for a week straight, and I'm still not tired of it. If you're interested in this band, I recommend you check out their MySpace account or their YouTube account...from there you can watch their own home movies and really get to see what they're like behind the scenes.
Live in Europe:

I had heard many artist speak of the XX and decided I would check them out. I decided to not wait for the cd and to go ahead and look them up on YouTube. The first video that popped up was Island, the video concept and the catchy song were what drew me to the rest of the cd. They remind me a bunch of Metric, Phoenix and the Yeah Yeah Yeahs. I recommend listening to the whole disc, it's well worth your time.

I had heard of Dallas Green (City...Colour...get it) from many artists through out this year. This is such a contrast from Alexisonfire(Green's main project), which is a heavy darker sounding screamer/metal hybrid while the majority of his solo project is driven by singing and acoustic guitar, although once in a while you'll hear a piano or violin. If you're looking for relaxing music and beautiful lyrics then I suggest you pick up City and Colour's album Bring Me Your Love. Sleeping Sickness is one of my favorite off the album (although it was tough to choose), enjoy!

Last but not least, after hearing about the untimely death of Slipknot's bass player, Paul Gary, I think it's only fitting to focus on one of the many great songs from the Slipknot (you know the group with the creepy masks) catalog. I know you're probably surprised to see after all my other musical selections that I enjoy them. But after seeing Stone Sour (lead singer, Corey Taylors side project) in concert I became more interested in all of his music and have grown to really enjoy them not to mention it's my fiances favorite band. One of my favorites, Snuff, is off of the most recent album. It always amazes me the range that this group is capable of doing. If you're looking for a good rock out jam with great lyrics and amazing guitar then I suggest you take some time to listen to this song.
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