Photo: The Alarm,3/21/1991

The album title tells it. The Alarm, once ardent sons of ’68 Guns’ have, in their time, hopped, skipped, and straddled most conceivable and accepted rock styles – falling in and out of favour as they’ve done so. If ‘Change” does transcend their solid base of appreciation, then it will almost certainly be helped by Mike Peters’ stark, homespun words streaked with apparent Welsh pride and tarnished emotion. “The valley [read more]

Here is very interesting blog post from Derek Bell at over at Stevens Point Journal.  It echos some of the sentiment from my 2005 post about The Alarm and U2. <a href= http://thealarm.com/dispart.asp?id=1081 >Close, The Alarm, And U2: The Words I’ve Been Holding In For Too Long</a>.  Here is an excerpt:   <i> For what was once the journey of rock and roll brethren, on a mission to recapture the [read more]

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