KUFO and Music Millennium have created a special place where you can preview new music from bands and artists!
The KUFO Rock Wall provides you a place to hear recommended CDs in their entirety where they are on-sale for a special low price.
Each month KUFO will highlight at least three featured albums/bands on the KUFO Rock Wall located at Music Millennium.
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Check out the KUFO Rock Wall Listening Stations located inside of Music Millennium for this month's feature artists/albums:
Pearl Jam: Backspacer Of all the bands to emerge from the early `90s grunge explosion, Pearl Jam was both the longest-lived and most consistently interesting. After several albums that found the group taking an increasingly experimental direction, the Seattle quintet returned to its straight-ahead hard rock roots with 2006's self-titled effort. In 2009 however, Pearl Jam surprised fans again with an album containing some of the unit's catchiest, poppiest songs ever. According to lead vocalist Eddie Vedder, most of the new material was written prior to recording, which was a significant departure from the group's usual in-studio jamming method of composition. The result is one of the unit's most focused and accessible works since the debut album TEN. CD $17.08
Alice In Chains: Black Gives Way to Blue To the delight of all however, the album proved to be perhaps the Seattle combo's most energetic and consistent effort since its masterpiece DIRT. Perhaps the most surprising element of the new record was how much it sounded exactly like Alice in Chains. While new singer William DuVall was not an exact Staley soundalike, he managed to evoke both the unique timbre and sense of deep angst that were the late vocalist's trademarks. Throughout, the sound is heavier and sturdier than ever before, with songs like the first single "A Looking In View" and "Check My Brain" borrowing a bit from the nu-metal bands Alice in Chains inspired, and beating the upstarts at their own game. CD $17.08
Wolfmother Cosmic Egg: The band's stomp and swagger feel refreshingly earnest and expertly executed, reasons enough to take Wolfmother seriously.
The Dead Weather: Horehound
The Dead Weather, which combines the talents of Jack White, Jack Lawrence (Raconteurs), Alison Mosshart (Kills), and Dean Fertita (Queens of the Stone Age, Raconteurs), aren't so much concerned with living up to expectations as they are about defying them. The Dead Weather's sound isn't so much heavy as it is thick with a tense atmosphere that's sustained throughout most of the album, and the group shuns the tighter structures of their other bands for a bluesy, jammy grind. CD $17.08
Alice in Chains: Black Gives Way to Blue
When Layne Staley died from a drug overdose in 2002, it had already been several years since most Alice in Chains fans stopped hoping for a new album. The singer had become a recluse since the late-`90s, and there was little indication that AIC would ever again produce much in the way of new music. As a result, when the remaining members reunited to release BLACK GIVES WAY TO BLUE in 2009, expectations were low. To the delight of all however, the album proved to be perhaps the Seattle combo's most energetic and consistent effort since its masterpiece DIRT. CD $17.07
Muse - The Resistance
With their fifth release, The Resistance, set to hit stores on 9/15.
The Veer Union - Against the Grain
Fronted by mohawked singer Crispin Bell, the Veer Union isn't a punk band. Rather, it's a heavy-rock act in the vein of Hinder and Rev Theory. Specializing in amped-up Tool-influenced anthems, the quartet is primed for mainstream rock radio, as heard on the urgent "Seasons" and the emotive "Over Me."
Halestorm - Halestorm With a few notable exceptions (Courtney Love, Evanescence) the '90s and aughts heavy rock scene remained largely a boys club. Lizzy Hale and her band Halestorm sought to remedy the situation with a muscular, metal and grunge-influenced update of Heart and Pat Benatar. The group's self-titled major label full-length debut puts Hale's aggressive, full-throated vocals and sexually charged lyrics front and center, backing them with stomping drums and raging guitars.
Sick Puppies After four years of living in Los Angeles, it's no surprise that Sick Puppies sound more American than ever on TRI-POLAR. The Australian band always drew on U.S. angst rock for its influences, though, and that's even more obvious here than before, with plenty of Alice in Chains and Stabbing Westward influences apparent. "So What I Lied" has a guitar riff in the midsection typical of Tool, and in "White Balloons" singer Shimon Moore briefly adopts the stop-start cadence of Maynard Keenan. "Don't Walk Away" is a very typical example of the "I know I was wrong" genre that even includes a heartfelt moan of..."I know I was wrong." The downtrodden revenge fantasy "Master of the Universe" has a quirky slap bass intro and a sitar layered into the guitar solo; it's the album's highlight. $11.68
Clutch – Strange Cousins From the West
Alternative Press - 4 stars out of 5 -- "It's one of their strongest albums....STRANGE COUSINS is a righteous blend of dirty, raw swamp-sludge blues and the band's patented brand of raucous riff-rock..."
$11.99
The Dead Weather – Horehound
Alternative Press (p.126) - 4 stars out of 5 -- "There's no denying the quartet know how to work a mighty groove as well as set up atmospheres similar to bands remanded to the faded pages of old record-collecting magazines."
$13.99
Cage The Elephant -- Cage the Elephant
Cage The Elephant: Lincoln Parish, Jared Champion, Daniel Tichenor, Brad Shultz, Matt Shultz.
Based on the herky-jerky single "Ain't No Rest for the Wicked," which did well on the U.K. singles chart, Kentucky's Cage the Elephant enjoyed a flush of success their first time out. Their 2008 debut combines jam-band earthiness with powerhouse riffing, and a spirited, shambolic approach to indie songcraft.
$10.99
Mastodon -- Crack the Skye
The progressive metal elements that bled into their sound on Blood Mountain are pushed even further here, led once more by Brann Dailor's furiously technical drumming. As Dailor goes, so goes the band, and his stick work remains some of the finest this side of Neil Peart. The crackling "Divinations" follows up the contemplative, restrained "Oblivion" with furious thrash riffs and springy dueling fretwork, and "Quintessence" wraps glittering guitar arpeggios around Dailor's impossibly percolating drums. The four-part "The Czar" is a towering epic that comes off like Rush on steroids, each part with its own distinct feel. A more mature and adventurous metal album is unlikely to be heard for a long time.
$10.99 regular edition $14.99 deluxe edition
Chickenfoot -- Chickenfoot
Chickenfoot: Sammy Hagar (vocals); Joe Satriani (guitar); Michael Anthony (bass guitar); Chad Smith (drums).
$10.99
Green Day -- 21st Century Breakdown
Still enamored of the concept of the concept album more than four years after American Idiot, Green Day unveiled its rock-opera sequel, 21st Century Breakdown in 2009. Like its predecessor, Breakdown wholeheartedly embraces the iconic punk-pop act's shift to a stadium-filling sound, while also remaining loyal to the San Francisco-based trio's progressive sociopolitical outlook. Even with a president in the White House that outspoken frontman Billie Joe Armstrong supports, he still finds plenty to rail against, with much of Breakdown alluding to the earlier Bush years of the new millennium, particularly the surging, Queen-like title track.
Shinedown -- Sound of Madness
On its third studio outing, The Sound of Madness, the post-grunge group Shinedown offers up another set of dramatic heavy rock. Easily the Floridian band's most dynamic album, Madness features both fierce, metallic tracks ("Devour," "Sin with a Grin") and surprisingly tender moments (the sensitive ballad "If You Only Knew"), with each tune emphasizing singer Brent Smith's powerful Chris Cornell-like vocals.
Silversun Pickups - Swoon With their striking debut, Carnavas, L.A.'s Silversun Pickups were flooded with Smashing Pumpkins comparisons. Far from unfounded, this analogy is only furthered by the alt-rock band's sophomore studio album, Swoon, with its driving beats, searing guitar lines, and fey vocals, most notably on the surging opener, "There's No Secrets This Year." Though slightly less obvious, another fitting reference is England's Placebo, an amped-up group of kindred spirits clearly evoked by the fierce "Panic Switch." While the Pickups are perpetually in danger of being eclipsed by these influences, the sheer force of their sonic attack (see "The Royal We") makes Swoon strangely impressive and undeniably engaging.
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KUFO and Music Millennium have created a special place where you can preview new music from bands and artists! 
Pearl Jam: Backspacer
Alice In Chains: Black Gives Way to Blue
Wolfmother Cosmic Egg:
The Dead Weather: Horehound
Alice in Chains: Black Gives Way to Blue
Creed: Full Circle
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Muse - The Resistance
The Veer Union - Against the Grain 
Halestorm - Halestorm
Sick Puppies
Clutch – Strange Cousins From the West 
Cage The Elephant -- Cage the Elephant
Mastodon -- Crack the Skye 
Chickenfoot -- Chickenfoot
