Mad Men: The Drinking Game; or Why Punk Sucks Punk rock is terrible. Now, I’m not talking about the music alone, because though the vast majority of it is unlistenable garbage, there are some bands in that genre that are undeniably great. I grew up on a healthy diet of Green Day, The [...]
This is the conclusion to our year end list of the best albums of 2012. Did Ryan and Jason get it right? Yes.
I MISS MY MTV 80′S FLASHBACK! MICHAEL JACKSON – BEAT IT To this day, I have no fucking idea what is going on in this video. I think two rival gangs are assembling in the city but people are coming out of the sewer and joining when they walk by an alleyway all willy nilly. If [...]
Dry The River This is a British Folk-Rock band which falls squarely in the neo-folk indie style that is all the rage these days. The main thing you will notice is that lead singer Peter Liddle sounds very much like Brandon Flowers, but with a little more earnestness, occasionally conjuring up a Robert Smith-like voice. [...]
Good Old War Like a hip, modern Crosby, Stills & Nash, Good Old War delivers harmony-centric fun folk-rock that keeps growing on me the more I listen to it. The lyrics are memorable and the melodies are catchy. I dare you to get this song out of your head: That song is from their new [...]
My Not-So-Secret Love Affair With Counting Crows This is a hard article to write. The reason for this is probably because I suffer from some inner turmoil related to my Counting Crows fan-dom. I have many debates about music, and I often under-represent my admiration for this band because no matter how well I make [...]
AMY RAY If someone told me 15 years ago that half of the Folk-Rock duo Indigo Girls would be making proud, angry, and relevant indie-punk music at 47 years of age, I’m not sure what my reaction would’ve been. Well, that is what Amy Ray is doing these days. Ms. Ray is currently on tour [...]
SO. You didn’t get to go to SXSW this year? Yeah, neither did I…but that doesn’t stop us from enjoying Austin’s antics in a voyeuristic, web-based sorta way. If you’ve been living under a rock since 1987, maybe you don’t know what SXSW is. In a nutshell, it consists of more music than you could [...]
Dead Sara Dead Sara is a 4-piece rock band from LA which I would describe as: If Melissa Etheridge was younger, more energetic and raspier and had a more aggressive Silversun Pickups for a band. All of that is to say that lead singer Emily Armstrong is exciting to watch & listen to and her [...]
I MISS MY MTV In which we imagine what it would be like if MTV stopped being terrible, and started being real. FOO FIGHTERS – WALK The second best band Dave Grohl has ever been in still, for some reason, puts a lot of time and effort in to their high concept, highly produced [...]
Welcome to the first installment of “Music Worth Buying + Music Worth A Free Download” where I find a few gems among the smattering of crappy music that is all over the internet these days. MUSIC WORTH BUYING The Tedeschi Trucks Band – Revelator Guitarists Derek Trucks and Susan Tedeschi got married in 2001 and [...]
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