'Green' succeeds with an overlooked story

In 1975, following the end of a 20-year-long anti-communism campaign by the United States, millions of Vietnamese fled their homeland and scattered
across the world. Green Dragon is about those who made it to Camp Pendleton, an army base the size of Rhode Island outside of San Diego, used to hold Vietnamese refugees in the U.S. until proper housing was made available.
 

Fivesixsixfive falls into patterns in debut album

"Patterns," says a lot more about the Florida-based duo Fivesixsixfive's debut album than the first track intended.
 

Bowling for Soup's 'Drunk' isnt punk enough to last


Drunk Enough to Dance is the latest album from the punk-pop band Bowling for Soup. Normally when you hear "punk" and "pop" in the same sentence,
images of quirky high-school kids in "punk rock" T-shirts from Hot Topic start swimming in your brain. Bowling for Soup, however, is considerably less
annoying.