Matchbox twenty drops another album today, North . It's actually been sample-streaming on iTunes for a while. I don't personally use iTunes -- my computer hates it with a passion, and I find its UI to be something like playing the slowest, jerkiest, most candy-colored game of Whack-A-Mole ever -- but I know people who do, and one of them was kind enough to let me have a listen until such time as they will take my money via Amazon . I have fond memories of these guys. I went to school during that era where "alternative rock" meant "wailing atonally over something that was not quite a rock backing". Sheryl Crow, artistically talented though she may be, drives me up the wall -- she never sounds quite on-pitch. It's torture. Alanis Morisette wasn't any better. My bedroom and my sister's room shared a wall, and my sister made it a habit to collect either "music by people who screeched uncontrollably" or "music by people who shouted p...
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