Posts Tagged ‘music review’
Review: The Wonder Years – “The Upsides”
Philadelphia’s The Wonder Years create exuberant, joyful pop-punk with a distinctly bro-ish flavor.
Review: Two Door Cinema Club – “Tourist History”
Two Door Cinema Club craft a promising, Strokes-y debut.
Review: Broken Bells – S/T
Shins mastermind James Mercer hooks up with crazy genius Danger Mouse; the result sounds like The Shins falling into the Sixties.
Review: Four Year Strong – Enemy Of The World
Boston pop-punkers Four Year Strong get huge on their third album.
Review: The Blacks – In Sickness And Health
Chicago alt-punk legends the Blacks break their ten year silence with an awesome new digital EP.
Review: The Morning Benders – “Big Echo”
California indie-poppers The Morning Benders get an assist from Grizzly Bear’s Chris Taylor on their new record, and the result is dreamtastic!
Review: The Soft Pack – S/T
Sprightly, accomplished power-pop from one of San Diego’s best new bands.
Review: Trippy Wicked – Movin’ On
What if Mastodon and the White Stripes had a love child? It’d be Trippy Wicked.
Black Friday #1: Holy Diver
Ronnie James Dio’s masterwork remains fresh after twenty-six years. Come for the title track; stay for “Rainbow In The Dark.”
Review: Pet Lions – Soft Right EP
Sweet, chiming Chicago indie rock for fans of the Strokes and Tokyo Police Club.
Review: A Hero Named Hope – S/T
These guys may call themselves A Hero Named Hope, but they have a lot more in common with a villain called Skeletor.
Review: The Bravery – Stir The Blood
Dance rock for fans of neither dancing nor rocking.
Review: Dashboard Confessional – Alter The Ending
Dashboard Confessional return with their worst album yet, and “emo” drops another few respectability notches.
Review: Genitorturers – Blackheart Revolution
Genitorturers, Orlando’s finest rock exports, are back with a new album. And it’s a killer.
Review: Shwayze – Let It Beat
The second album from Malibu rapper Shwayze is a mellow good time slightly lacking in depth.
