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My 2007 Album

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noisettes.jpgThis isn’t a list of the “best” songs of 2007, or even my favorites. It’s a personal 2007 compilation that tries to capture my experience with music over the past 12 months. The songs are meant to play off each other – sometimes in obvious ways, often not – and there’s a purpose to the sequencing.

Tagged: Album for a Year, Art Brut, Grinderman, Kings of Leon, Lists, Modest Mouse, Monster Magnet, Pelican, PJ Harvey, Queens of the Stone Age, Radiohead, Self-Involvement, Serj Tankian, Shannon Wright, Shins, Sunset Rubdown, Tegan and Sara, The Avett Brothers, The Good the Bad and the Queen, The Noisettes, White Stripes
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Can Monster Magnet Save Rock?

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Dismiss Monster Magnet at your peril. It’s certainly not difficult, but it’s unwise. The band might be all that rock and roll has left. The five-piece New Jersey outfit has taken the Black Sabbath/Led Zeppelin torch that Soundgarden carried in the early 1990s and stripped the 1970s-style heavy metal of its grungier self-loathing and self-importance of the past decade. By re-claiming heavy music from rap metal and what passes for “alternative” these days, Monster Magnet might just be the savior of good ol’ rock and roll.

Tagged: Dave Wyndorf, Heavy Metal, Interviews, Monster Magnet
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