You all know the Seven Deadly Sins, right? Well, they’re also “Seven Ways to Die “on Buckcherry’s upcoming album, Confessions. There’s a seven on the second cover, even! It’s cyan, a nice contrast to the wooden cross on the cover. The band said it’ll make a good tattoo–and they’re right. The album opens with “Gluttony,” […]
Wang Chung may have been Abducted by the 80’s back in 2010, but it’s been almost 24 years since the band has put out new goods. Jack Hues and Nick Feldmen knew that digital was the way this time around to hit up the music scene with Tazer Up!, released in December. The record opens […]
Thanks to my amazing twin Courtney for whipping up this confection of a review! Four years after their debut album, indie folk group Fiction Family returns with a new studio venture and a new label. Lead singer Jon Foreman (Switchfoot) and guitarist Sean Watkins (Nickel Creek) deliver a dynamic record, with the befitting title Fiction Family […]
Snuff returns with 5-4-3-2-1 Perhaps? after almost a whole decade. The Snuff of days past is still here, mostly in spirit. The band has revamped their sound to such a degree that the resulting album is calculate and well-curated. The band hits the ground running with the first five tracks, totally relentless and fresh. From […]
Well over 3-and-a-half years since 2009’s For(N)ever and just about 3 following a slick “Ghostbusters” cover, Hoobastank returns with Fight or Flight, marking a fresh start and more creative control over material. Now on independent label Open E Entertainment, Hoobastank feels like it’s still shaking off the big label blues, just realizing that the band can […]
The general public might assume that Benjamin Gibbard’s solo effort Former Lives is a divorce album, a cathartic outlet in the vein of Rumors, Like a Prayer, or Blood on the Tracks, full of tracks about picking up the pieces. But no, Ben says, the album doesn’t concern starting anew in life—it just details “eight […]
Whatever grim adaptation of comic-booky media comes out this year, we’ll be sure to hear the first 30 seconds of “Supremacy” used in the teasers. Muse kicks up the bombast without hesitation in this dreary take on “Kashmir,” a dash of mariachi pomp thrown in. This is our introduction to Queen and Other Rock Bands […]
At the time of this writing, I’m holed up on my couch with a sore ear, a low grade fever, and LMN on the television, kinda sorta watching Fatal Lessons: The Good Teacher. But more importantly, I’m listening to The Signal from Arizona based Local Wizards. Following 2011’s fantastic Muckracker’s, this new Local Wizards’ outing […]
Philadelphia group—and possibly certified dog experts—Dr. Dog have a new EP hitting today, the five track Wild Race, which you should actually scramble and make a wild race to grab. Because it’s pretty dang nice. Every song will crawl into your brain and never come out, starting with the rollicking mantra that is “Be the […]
Philadelphia group—and possibly certified dog experts—Dr. Dog have a new EP hitting tomorrow, the five track Wild Race, which you should actually scramble and make a wild race to grab. Because it’s pretty dang nice. Every song will crawl into your brain and never come out, starting with the rollicking mantra that is “Be the […]
