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Have you heard about the amazing concerts and events happening in Chicago in the coming days and weeks? A pretty solid lineup:
Of Monsters and Men: The Riviera, December 16 SOLD OUT (Where there’s a will there’s a way: Stubhub tix HERE)
Of Monsters and Men: The Riviera, December 17 SOLD OUT (Where there’s a will there’s a way: Stubhub tix HERE)
Grouplove: The Rivera, December 21, BUY TIX
The Killers: UIC, December 21, SOLD OUT (Where there’s a will there’s a way: Stubhub tix HERE)
Kill Hannah w/Dot Dot Dot, House of Blues, December 22 BUY TIX
Third Eye Blind w/Mutemath, House of Blues, December 31 BUY TIX
Green Day, January 8, 2013, Allstate Arena BUY TIX Postponed due to Billy Joe’s, uh, recovery. Get well bro!
Morrissey: Chicago Theater, January 26th, 2013 BUY TIX
UFC On Fox at The UC, January 26th, 2013 BUY TIX
The Darkness: The Riviera, January 27th , 2013 BUY TIX
Soundgarden: The Riviera, January 29th, 2013 SOLD OUT (Where there’s a will there’s a way: Stubhub tix HERE
Soundgarden: The Riviera, January 30th, 2013 SOLD OUT (Where there’s a will there’s a way: Stubhub tix HERE
Hot Cakes starts off with a dick joke, and not a very funny one at that. After detailing his past decade’s hardships with cocaine and fame, newly returned frontman of The DarknessJustin Hawkins wails about how every man he met during his formative years wanted to suck his cock.
These opening lines to “Every Inch of You” are indicative of the content on the rest of the album (their first since 2005′s underrated One Way Ticket to Hell… and Back). Over 11 songs, the words begin to scrape the surface of something serious and human before reverting to the band’s usual glam rock tropes. That a group known for dork-fingered shredding, leopard print, and general buffoonery even thought to discuss their personal turmoil in the first place is a small step toward musical growth, but sadly, The Darkness squanders these seeds of opportunity. The party is always waiting, the humor is always cheeky (you’ll be hard-pressed to find mention of “sabre-toothed cave ladies” on another album this century), and, despite Hawkins’ troubles, the drugs are always a laughing matter.
Even though no one expects The Darkness to churn out a gloomy, self-loathing opus in the vein of Alice In Chains’ Dirt, it would be nice to see them channel their travails into something that combines more grounded subject matter with their signature brand of nostalgic fun. Instead, we get more of the usual cock-rock posturing and exaggerated machismo.
READ MORE HERE
http://consequenceofsound.net/2012/08/album-review-the-darkness-hot-cakes/
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