Lav's Music Corner

These are just three functionally unaffiliated bands who all are technically under the exceedingly large umbrella of "rock" that I wanted to cover.  In Times New Roman...  - Queens Of The Stone Age With a full decade between the release of Queens Of The Stone Age's excellent album Like Clockwork  and now, I'm comfortable saying that I don't like this band as much as everyone else does. I appreciate the one-two punch of Rated R  and Songs For The Deaf , and Like Clockwork  sees the band sounding better than they had any right to in their career. But now 8 albums into their career I still consider myself a picky fan and I wasn't crazy about the singles from this album. One thing I can say in favor of this record is that it sees the band taking risks they weren't willing to on their previous album. By that metric alone this project is an improvement on the safe sounds of Villains  or Era Vulgaris . But despite that experimentation, much of the corny blues roc