Tag: Pop

Review: Shirock – Everything Burns [2009]

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Nashville, TN outfit Shirock comprise their 12-track offering EVERYTHING BURNS with a plethora of stadium-filling choruses and big rock mystique, developing a huge sound likening the band to U2 or Oasis (“Drag You Down”). Slick production screaming for adult alternative airplay, flawless male-female vocal tradeoffs, and the familiarity tracks like grandiose “Time Goes By” radiates […]

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Review: Another Big Machine – ABM [2008]

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Louisiana quartet Another Big Machine takes the well paved pop-rock route of Nickelback and Daughtry, and mixes it with dollops of country twang and Warped Tour edge on their latest offering ABM. Successfully soaring with lush instrumentation, a la sellout-era Aerosmith, should garnish a slew of pop-rock interest for this unit — but there’s a […]

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