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Buckcherry - Black Butterfly
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| Dirty-minded, unrepentant, and awash in bad-boy charm, Black Butterfly makes you forget hair metal's demise was more than 15 years ago. Boiling over with twitchy guitars and naughty propositions that'd make Steven Tyler blush -- if he didn't demand a cut of the Aerosmith-indebted "A Child Called 'It'" -- these Los Angelenos deliver a brash follow-up to 2006's platinum-selling 15. Spewing filthy oaths and sweet promises, sometimes in the same line, frontman Josh Todd does his best to give misogyny a good name....full text |
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| Ew |
| Trends come and go, decades fly past, but the hardy power ballad will never die — at least not as long as Buckcherry have anything to say about it. The L.A. quintet, fresh off the radio ubiquity of ''Sorry'' last year, prove themselves masters of the form yet again with such generically sentimental anthems as ''Dreams'' and ''Don't Go Away'' on Black Butterfly. Up-tempo sleazefests like current single ''Too Drunk...'' round out their fourth CD. Whether or not Axl Rose ever finishes another album, at least we can count on these guys to keep churning out passable GN'R B-side impressions....full text |
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| Latimes |
| It's shaping up to be quite an autumn for American feminism. First, we have Republican vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin, about whom you might have read something in the last few weeks. Now the Pussycat Dolls, a burlesque troupe turned top-40 act, have made a collection of electro-pop songs that are the opposite of sex: belligerent come-ons and odes to singledom stripped of pleasure, adventure or anything resembling fun....full text |
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