Take Jawbreaker’s guitar lines, intermingle them with the uplifting yelling and brawling of Hot Water Music and add lyrics about “getting drunk for no reason,” breaking “bones and vocal cords,” “generations of mis-informed Americans” and “dying to try to find something to believe in” and you’ve got North Lincoln. Are you sold on them yet? […]
This eleven track album, released this May by the North Carolina natives Secret Lives of the Freemasons, is a smashup between Taking Back Sunday’s double vocals and Lost Prophets’ lyrical style and aggression. The group came to be through the fusion of one an indie band and another post-hardcore group. Today their make up has […]
When I was but a wee lass in high school, my best friend Charlotte had one of the more upscale houses in the Cupertino neighborhood, complete with a top of the line hi-fi system that no one but the master of the house was allowed to touch. At 15 we of course ignored all threats, […]
Reviewing compilation albums provides an interesting challenge for me. Judging an artist by one song rankles on me. I much prefer to have several songs in order to get a more complete idea of their style, sound, and quality. Some bands can vary wildly between songs while others remain intolerably the same. My opinion of […]
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I met with Eugene Brown and Peter Antypas from [die] Pilot for what was supposed to be an interview, but actually turned out to be a rambling conversation (totally my fault) that did cover pertinent facts about the band, but also covered a discussion on what is actually considered the “South.” They were also very […]
Star Wars: Episode III – Revenge of the Sith (George Lucas) One interesting aspect of seeing the opening of a Star Wars movie is that you know you will stand in line for a very long time. Possibly you will stand for a very long time next to someone holding a plastic light saber and […]
The Life Crew is making itself known across the Front Range. One of the reasons for this is that they are home to some of Colorado’s freshest MC’s. Among them are the prolific Ichiban and the ever pleasant and distinctive Deca. Well, the crew within the crew, known affectionately as The Pirate Sygnl (BDBEYON human […]
Of Montreal is Kevin Barnes in the studio. This lone artist cranks out a floaty-but-rocking LP that mirrors everything about British simplicity from The Kinks to Supergrass, and then throws in an electronic edge that harkens back to the ‘80s idea of intelligent dance music.
The self titled debut album by No Wait Wait is a prototypical pop/rock record rocking back and forth from track to track, masquerading at times as a twangy, Midwestern alt-country record. Recorded in and completed in less than six months on Duluth label Chairkicker’s Union Music, the band is comprised of Marc Gartman of Pale […]
The Old Haunts, from ye olde hot spot of Olympia, Washington and the fab Kill Rock Stars label, are a sassy trio who seem to have a rotating drum cast. Three people share drum credit on this record which, apparently, is their first full-length. I would make a “marching to the beat of a different […]
