Three Days Grace Life Starts Now

Three Days Grace Life Starts NowThe third studio album from Canadian arena rockers Three Days Grace treads familiar ground, presenting 12 slabs of the kind of reliable, accessible, and serviceable hard rock that will always have an audience. 2006's ONE X dealt heavily with vocalist Adam Gontier's personal demons, a theme that continues on LIFE STARTS NOW, albeit with a hint of sunlight. With a sound that lands somewhere in between Breaking Benjamin, Collective Soul, and Godsmack

Bob Marley & The Wailers: Bob Marley (vocals

cuts like the ballad "Muchacho

deciding on songs far less flashy or immediate but still uniquely captivating

" casting it in prayerful and heartfelt solemnity

but on a near-whispered scale

Geoff Callingham & Chris Blair

Encores 2 is the second in a series of extended players meant as companions to the universally acclaimed album All Melody

introspective music -- "All the Same" casts a jangly spell that hovers between raucous and poignant and is classic Deerhunter

This makes The Getaway the first album the Red Hot Chili Peppers have recorded without longtime collaborator Rick Rubin

it might hold somewhat less allure

The drums are taut and razor-sharp

his emotive Southern yawp rife with poetry and lyricism