Metric - Fantasies (Review)
There’s a lot to be said for female-fronted bands these days. Most of them attempt to emulate Hayley Williams and her success with Paramore, utilizing the basic pop/rock sound and adding a subtle twist. Canadian new-wave rock band Metric has never found themselves in this state of mind; they’ve always been bold and experimental in [...]
Supergroup Updates
It’s kind of like fantasy sports for the musical world.. Except, in this case, it’s real.
U2 on Letterman this Week!
If you haven’t already been watching The Late Show with David Letterman (CBS) the past few nights, you should tune in tomorrow and Friday night to see U2 perform new songs from their latest release, No Line on the Horizon.
U2 - No Line on the Horizon (Review)
Expectations stem from many conditions, including informative past events and extensive prior knowledge. Most importantly though, expectations are born from first impressions.
“Blink-182 is back!”
Blink-182 fans have waited several long, desolate years to hear from the band concerning a reunion. And tonight, at the 51st annual Grammy awards, the fans were finally rewarded.
Ben Kweller - Changing Horses (Review)
Ben Kweller is an all-around fantastic musician with a surprisingly large underground fanbase. He’s multi-instrumentally talented, and on this and past records, he shows us his versatility in that area. His first album in 3 years, Changing Horses is a risky experiment for Kweller, transitioning from contemplative, mid-tempo piano pop to a country sound. I won’t over-pun such [...]
Rediscovery, Issue 2
Over the past few months, I’ve had plenty of time to sort through my music collection and rediscover some more noteworthy albums to share with you all.
Fiction Family - Fiction Family (Review)
Jon Foreman has been hard at work the past few years, knocking out several solo projects, as well as prepping new material for the upcoming Switchfoot release. He’s also been writing and recording an album with Sean Watkins of Nickel Creek, and this Fiction Family LP is the result. It’s one of my highly-anticipated albums of this year, [...]
Kevin Max - Crashing Gates (Review)
When bands split, it’s not always easy to find a suitable side project that will further your career while still keeping the interest of the original band’s fans. Kevin Max Smith has managed to find himself a way to do these things and much more. As the most lyrically ornate of the three original dc Talk [...]
She & Him - Volume One (Review)
She’s not exactly what you’d call an “actress turned vocalist”.. Or a “vocalist turned actress,” for that matter. She is Zooey Deschanel, a talented young lady who has starred in such films as Elf, Yes Man, and Almost Famous, and has performed with a jazz cabaret act known as If All the Stars Were Pretty Babies.
He is Matt Ward, a.k.a., [...]
