Journey

Departure offers ample proof that the Seventies hard-rock genre so many people have
been trying to bury for the last few years just doesn't want to die. Journey may well be
the best American band in this idiom, which is ironic, because, stylistically, they've always
seemed to struggle with it, as if hard rock were a new shirt they had trouble fitting into.
For an Aerosmith or a Ted Nugent, no such difficulties existed – hard rock was t... More >