On Cheap Trick's 17th album--and that is the most Cheap Trick title ever Cheap Trick'd--the man's ability to write sugar-coated riffs that stick in your head as though made of golden syrup has not diminished. [2 Apr 2016, p.53]

It's got markedly better machine-gunning riffs than wilderness years albums like 1999's Speed Of Sound. [27 Feb 2016, p.53]

These inoffensive songs will take up almost none of your mind's capacity for thought or pleasure. [12 Mar 2016, p.53]

Limitless is often thwarted by its execution rather than its ambition. [27 Feb 2016, p.50]

It's an interesting trip, if one that occasionally sees ATW stray too far into self-indulgence. [27 Feb 2016, p.52]

Lyrically, [frontman Pierre Bouvier] and his bandmates have barely matured from the whimpering youngsters they were when they made it big 14 years ago.... However, if you accept Taking One For The Team for what it is, which is just another Simple Plan album, then there's lots to enjoy. [20 Feb 2016, p.50]

Their 11th album, is a heaving smorgasbord of all those [quality meaty metal] sounds. [30 Jan 2016, p.52]

This is a decent redneck honk that could earn them some new friends while they're away. [23 Jan 2016, p.53]

Like its two predecessors, this is solid Skunk that doesn't quite have the songs to match their ground-breaking first two albums. [9 Jan 2016, p.51]

For the most part, this is an awkward journey that sounds like no-one else. Try it but don't expect an easy ride. [9 Jan 2016, p.52]

The album is one long ambient jam and precisely as exciting as that sounds. [16 Jan 2016, p.53]

You can hear where he's heading with ideas, but, for the most part, these are more sketches than fully-formed songs. [16 Jan 2016, p.52]

Occasionally songs hand around a little too long, but all the bruises Black Breath leave linger in the best kind of way. [10 Oct 2015, p.41]

You get exactly the sort of greasy grooves you'd expect, but with a whole lot of Cuban cool thrown in as well. [14 Nov 2015, p.52]

With a demo-like production, it's not as good as the Ramones' similarly sourced Acid Eaters, but hearing him Danzig-up these tunes is still highly entertaining. [5 Dec 2015, p.52]

It's a collection of suitably mixed results, but Fall Out Boy should be applauded for continuing to do whatever the hell they feel like. [7 Nov 2015, p.52]

Obviously, we'd much prefer to have a new Tool album, but in the interim, Money Shot won't leave you feeling short-changed. [31 Oct 2015, p.54]

From the meandering opener, Weave, it's a record that's entirely absorbing. [31 Oct 2015, p.54]

It's all formula though, and fresh ingredients are few and far between. [3 Oct 2015, p.52]

A surprisingly concise, but still collates the quartet's strengths into a mostly satisfying whole. [10 Oct 2015, p.52]

"Misfits" is a bit of a bland closer musically, but it's a sentiment that fits the album--and Shinedown--perfectly. [26 Sep 2015, p.51]

Jack White is a man you can depend on for a dirty groove and a greasy riff. Which he serves up amply here. [26 Sep 2015, p.53]

On this third album, his gnarly riffs and garage-level production are as unpolished and far-out as ever, but the element of surprise has turned into comforting familiarity. [5 Sep 2015, p.52]

This seventh album will take neither rock'n'roll's top prize nor its wooden spoon, but it's another decent arse-kicker. [22 Aug 2015, p.52]

Automatic is part boom, part bust. [8 Aug 2015, p.50]

Radkey's greatest strength is sounding urgent but never rushed. The greatest weakness is that they wear their influences like face tattoos. [22 Aug 2015, p.52]

Immortalized isn't without its duffers. [22 Aug 2015, p.51]

Fear Factory continue to make the future sound dark and dangerous. [1 Aug 2015, p.52]