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Critic’s Corner: Pearl Jam releases ninth album
Pearl Jam has come out with its ninth album "Backspacer." The new album is half awesome and half blah. The band continues to grab hold of the past with songs like "Amongst the Waves" that tries to live up to the grunge classic "State of Love and Trust" but fails to do it. The main song that will catch you off guard is "The End." The real disappointing part, depending on how you look at it, is the 11-track record is only 37 minutes long, by far the shortest album Pearl Jam has ever made. Most of the die-hard fans are wondering if the band is beginning to become a sell out. The band teamed up with the big box giant Target to sell the record exclusively, one partnership most of us real fans never thought would happen. After a lot of pressure from their fan club, the band decided to make the album available to "indie" stores like Imagine Music. The last song on the album gives you an eerie feeling. Vedder tells us the "end is near" and the song abruptly ends. Fans can read into this as much as they want, but if he is telling us Pearl Jam’s day are numbered, then we truly have a tragedy on our hands.
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Alice in Chains has not put out an album in 14 years. Fear not, grungeheads, the band is back with a new singer and record. After the death of singer Layne Staley, no one ever thought the band would put out new music again. The new album "Black Gives Away to Blue" gives you everything you have been missing during the band’s hiatus. Jerry Cantrell takes over the band sounding more confident than he ever did on his solo albums. New lead singer William Duvall never sounds like he is filling in Layne’s shoes. Duvall is more content to give the band his own sound. Cantrell is a master on the guitar. He drops hook after hook in "Acid Bubble" and "All Secrets Known." The new single "Check My Brain" has an incredible hard rock sound that will occupy your mind for hours. Duvall and Cantrell harmonize on the vocals like they grew up together and the rest of the band is as tight as they were in the beginning. For a band that had one foot in grave, they are releasing some of their best music ever.
(Mike Haddin is the owner and operator of Imagine Music, New Castle.)
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Radio Nights in Greenfield Friday
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Great show
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Corey Cox in Greenfield
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