Miley Cyrus has been all over the media lately, but next to none of it has been for her music. The VMA performance, hosting SNL, taking photos with Terry Richardson, ruining twerking, being casually dismissive of Sinead O’Connor’s concern and viciously disrespectful to people with Read More …
I personally love it when a band isn’t afraid to let its influences show through in the music they make. Maybe it’s because I’m a music geek and I like to see what things I can recognize, or maybe it goes back to the fact Read More …
RDGLDGRN is a three-piece go-go influenced indie pop/hip hop act you should be listening to if you happen to like making your ears happy. They blend a relatable charm with a penchant for creating catchy and affecting jams that deftly straddle the line between rock Read More …
How many bands can you think of that have been around for 20+ years and continue to make good music? There aren’t many of them. Most of the time a band doesn’t stay together for that long, and if they do, the quality of their Read More …
Coined by psychiatrists, a paracosm is an imaginary fantasy world developed in a child’s mind that can last for a prolonged period of time. Paracosm is also the title of this album and based on its definition, is a pretty apt characterization of the sound Read More …
Okay so this album, Silence Yourself, by Savages, has been out for almost 3 months already and it’s taken me that long to collect my thoughts in order to present a somewhat coherent review of this album. All right, here it goes: this album is Read More …
King Tuff’s Was Dead is an album that plays on the trend of recreating and modernizing popular sounds from past decades – a trend that probably all of the popular music consuming population (myself included) are suckers for. If you don’t believe me, just take a Read More …
Full disclosure: Frightened Rabbit has recently become one of my favorite modern bands so this review is to serve as both a recommendation of their new album, Pedestrian Verse, and also an introduction to a band that I think more people should be listening to. Read More …
Real quick before I review this awesome album, let me run you through the history of Rock that has repeated itself every few years like clockwork, since Maybellene divided popular music scholarship into BCB and ACB periods: Somebody does something cool with rock music. Then Read More …