Allow me to take a moment to recount my brief and heady love affair with the Harlem Shakes. We met almost three years ago at a show in Newport, KY as I watched them completely blow headliners Tapes n’ Tapes out of the fucking water. Convinced I had just seen the best power-pop band in...
They don’t care. Faster. Harder. Louder. Now. In short demand and shorter supply. A curt response to the great “If you have to ask you’ll never know” but you just might if you stick around a few minutes longer. You might as well. It’ll never happen again. Not this lifetime, at least....
Here The Bird and the Bee serve up something out of Alice and Wonderland mixed with memories of your mom singing you to sleep; repetitive, soothing, and charming. Ray Guns, the follow up to The Bird and the Bee’s first self titled album, is about what you would expect from the indie pop, whimsical duo...
200 Tons of Bad Luck has been stuck on play since I first listened to it a few months back. This album will rate high with fans of the post-rock genre in particular, but is a recommended listen to anyone who enjoys a rock...
As much as I love hardcore punk, good lord it all sounds the same. And while one could argue that Zero Boys have a different perspective and take on the genre since they sprouted out of Indianapolis, a place where there was virtually no punk scene to speak of, as opposed to the hotbeds of...
A soft scatter from static and the voice loops, determined to be heard among the din and chirping birds. The wails of strangers hum in other rooms. Holy places, perhaps. Alchemists bleeding life into their sullen gold mourning as if that sacrifice might shed some magic into the mosaic of ghosts. Of orchids. Of language...
Austin’s got soul baby, but you already knew that, from W.C. Clark to Janis Joplin. Texas now has a fresh face along with a new attitude. Black Joe Lewis & the Honeybears, lead by the explosive showmen Black Joe Lewis, and backed by a tight seven-piece. This young acclaimed band is storming out of Austin...
NOFX Coaster Who ever said Punk was dead?!…oh yeah, I did…except for NOFX. One of the only bands that has managed to walk the razorblade dichotomy of ‘successful punk’ album after album while staying true to what punk should represent. The very idea of being punk is to be anti-establishment, profit-indifferent and (above all)...
I don’t understand this place, this time but in a hundred years I know that I will be ash, at my best. Cold mending rot and soil somewhere forgotten by the kin that never came to keep me, if our long tradition persists. But that’s then, isn’t it? And in between there are a thousand...
4.5/5 : Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti - Before ...4.2/5 : Wavves- King Of The Beach4.2/5 : Scissor Sisters - Night Work4.1/5 : Das Racist - Shut Up, Dude4.1/5 : The Roots - How I Got Over4.1/5 : Crystal Castles - (II)4.0/5 : Nas and Damian Marley - Distant Relativ ...3.9/5 : Crocodiles - Summer of Hate3.9/5 : Devo – Something for Everybody3.6/5 : High on Fire – Snakes for the Divine 
4.8/5 : Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti - Before ...4.0/5 : Devo – Something for Everybody4.0/5 : Abominable Iron Sloth - The Id Will Ove ...4.0/5 : Nas and Damian Marley - Distant Relativ ...3.5/5 : Wavves- King Of The Beach3.5/5 : Ceremony - Rohnert Park LP3.3/5 : Crystal Castles - (II)3.3/5 : Das Racist - Shut Up, Dude3.0/5 : Scissor Sisters - Night Work3.0/5 : High on Fire – Snakes for the Divine 
