The Devil's Music

The Devil's Music is the third album by Powerstars, and their first on X76 Records. The album is a rock opera, with liner notes describing how each song fits into the story. The album failed to garner as many downloads as the band's first two albums, despite a larger advertising campaign.

Background
The band started recording the album in summer of 2013, after a period of relative inactivity. A music video was released for what would become the album's first single, The New Rock and Roll. However, after writing and recording a few more songs and developing the story a bit, disaster struck when the computer the band had been storing the recordings and ideas on broke down, never to see the light of day again. Later that year, when the band had finally gotten a new one, the album's future looked bleak, with The New Rock and Roll being the only surviving song. However, they decided to press on, rewriting much of the album. They pushed to get "The New Rock and Roll" released as a single on POM Records, but after the label entered an indefinite hiatus, they released the single on Cookies & Biscuits Records. After several more months of work, the album was ready, but the label they had jumped too ended up going on an indefinite hiatus as well. Eventually, X76 Records opened and in Febuary of 2014, the album was finally released.

Commercial Performance
The album was commercially disappointing, with only 7 downloads as of August 2014, despite constant radio promotion. The single, "The New Rock and Roll," received some minor radio airplay.

Critical Reception
The album received mixed to positive reviews. Hazaman, of Monocle Reviews, praised the album's organization, saying that it was "possibly one of the best-planned descriptive works out there at the moment," but called the premise "silly" and said that the album was "uninteresting." He gave it a 7.5/10.