We have fought and bickered like kids arguing over a new toy, but with less than 24 hours to go before the new year parades on in and takes over our lives we have finally managed to put together the Silent Sound Waves Top 20 Albums of 2008 list. Read on to see if your [...]
2008 just flew by, and as this is being written a new year is only a few days away from turning the current into history. Hopefully all of your are enjoying your holidays while they last, and as a treat for you we have scoured our playlists and created a this list to reminisce about [...]
Toxins roam these parts from time to time, so watch yourself / Because they might just land themselves upon your doorstep.
It’s difficult to pinpoint the specific “toxin” that vocalists Dan Smith and Izaac Burkhart refer to throughout I Was Searching and I Found, Weaver at the Loom’s debut mini-concept EP. It may be a personal struggle, mortification, or even infamy. [...]
Manchester Orchestra’s sophomore release, Mean Everything To Nothing, is scheduled to be released sometime late in the spring of 2009. It was originally scheduled for March 31st, but according to AbsolutePunk it has, even though it’s officially finished, been pushed back.
I am extremely excited about this record myself, and as a treat to all the [...]
The All-American Rejects‘ third studio album, When The World Comes Down, is being released today, and as a special treat to the fans you the rejects are letting us stream the album in its entirety off of their MySpace profile. It’ll only be available in full today, so if you want a free preview of [...]
Ever since the immense success of their second full length album, From Under The Cork Tree, which went double platinum, the guys from Fall Out Boy and in particular lyricist and bassist Pete Wentz have served as icons of this decade’s rejuvenation of the pop genre. Your mothers-in-law’s dream boys as fronted by Backstreet Boys [...]
After 2004’s breakup, fans doubted a quick return for Sixpence None the Richer. Sixpence, an alternative pop group featuring members Leigh Nash and Matt Slocum, abruptly left fans with only four studio albums and a greatest hits compilation. Lead singer, Leigh Nash, took on a solo project, while Matt Slocum fashioned a new band called [...]
So, it’s finally December, which means I am now actually open to the idea of listening to Christmas music (unlike some people who like to start November 1st).
Through the years, I’ve collected various abstract Christmas and other holiday songs from different artists, and I thought I’d share some of my favorites. I’ll start with EPs [...]
After at least a year of speculation, Fiction Family’s first single from their full-length debut is available for free on their website. Two super-writers, Jon Foreman of Switchfoot and Sean Watkins of Nickel Creek, originally created a duo called The Real SeanJon back in 2006, humorously hoping to be sued by the rapper P. Diddy over [...]
A few months back I got a friend request over at VIRB (a cleaner, less cluttered MySpace-esque social network) from a random girl with a couple of songs on her profile. Usually I don’t give friend requests from artists I’ve never heard much thought or attention, but for some reason, which could probably be only [...]
