February 2012
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WatchSaid The Whale - “Heavy Ceiling” on Spinner.com
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Elk Bell: SuperFragilistic
It’s a Sunday morning and I’m on a two hour train ride home to see my new nephew. The sky foreshadows things I hope won’t happen, and Elk Bell’s SuperFragilistic offers itself as the soundtrack to at least half of the two hour trip. “Holiday Island” starts the record and my trip. The slow pace matches the pace of this so called “efficient” form of public transportation. Funny that a song about...
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turning the tables and mixing it up...
We make artists make us mixtapes all the time, so now it’s our turn. We’re going to try every week to bring you mixtape’s that showcase what we felt the past week, or just what we were digging. Ashley Jeans’s “Anxiety” Mixtape
“Have Faith In Me” - A Day to Remember ”Out Through the Curtain” - The Hush Sound ”Fix Me (Cover)”...
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Breag Naofa: Breag Naofa
There are some songs you hear and instantly say, “Now, that’s a radio hit.” Then you have other that leave you staring like you’ve seen Bigfoot, Casper and Dracula having a tea party; confused and scared all at once. That feeling never left me as Breag Naofa’s self-titled. And while it may be only four tracks, the album will be 40 minutes of your life, and if you’re into testosterone driven...
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Belle Histoire: I Can Tell
Right now I’m sitting in a hallway waiting for my boss to open the door. I get here about an hour before everyone because I can’t stand the sight of most people, okay all the people I work with. I’m counting down the hours until I can gab with my mom about last night’s The Voice and tell her that Jane Smith of Belle Histoire should really be on there. I mean if Dia Frampton, Juliet Simms and ...
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New I Call Fives Song on AP.Net...Reblog with your... →
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Palisades: I’m Not Dying Today
Innocent sounding voice backed by a lot of attitude. Not a teenage girl, but Palisades I’m Not Dying Today. “Disclosure” takes it’s time to get things going and at first you’ll think it’s another record with lyrics masked by clouds of riffs, but it takes a turn. Matt Marshall comes in sounding like he could replace Gaskarth in All Time Low.
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Erin Passmore: Downtown
Going from an ensemble to the being a lone act is much like moving into a metropolitan area alone; an exciting force that makes you grow as an individual. Erin Passmore has stepped away from Rah Rah for a second to take on Downtown. And for the indie-rock fans who ved her in the band, never fear because she’s still got indie in her that guides her through her solo adventure.
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Viper Creek Club: Hot Lights
Late nights after work, my brain is still swimming from the noise of school children and shrieking defiance. It’s a wonder that I would chose to put on a record that is anything but tranquil. Yet, somehow, I am relaxed in the sounds of heavy synths and in-your-face vocals. I don’t mind imagining the sensation of my sweat pooling off my skin ad dripping to the dance floor under the Hot Lights,...
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Silver Snakes: Pictures of a Floating World
One summer night me and a friend sat up till the wee hours of the morning researching Legends of the Hidden Temple. I can imagine the members of Silver Snakes have had many nights like that. And unlike Olmec, these Silver Snakes are all real rock on their new album, Pictures of a Floating World.
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Finding Jupiter’s Peter McDonald: Bass-ics of...
Jumping to conclusions can lead you down a slippery slope, and I found myself stuck at the bottom with Finding Jupiter’s resident bass man, Peter McDonald when I just went and assumed he was still hitting the books at Stanford. Instead I learned he was all done with his English major and spending his time writing here and here and doing some freelancing on the side.
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Hector of Lost In Society: Warped, Splits and...
Warped fans started planning their summers a few weeks ago as the band announcements started trickling in. Every Wednesday I sit at work and wait by ap.net for the thread and am made to feel ancient when new bands pop up in vampire make-up that I will never get, and assume is a generational thing. But one time my face formed a smile when I saw a familiar name; Lost In Society.
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Heart to Heart: Deathproof
Pop quiz: Best way to discover a band? Did you say on some random place on the internet? Well that’s a great answer because you’re reading this, but the better answer is live. Heart to Heart played a show last month with a new favorite of ours at Golden Mixtape, Currents and at first I was intimidated. Nick Zoppo looks like Buddy from Senses Fail’s older brother and performs with as much...
January 2012
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Justin Yost of Everyone Dies in Utah Sees Clearly...
When your parents tell you that your music can’t teach you a thing or two about the world, then they clearly haven’t been listening closely enough. Now that I have been exposed, I’m no longer ignorant to the fact that Walmartscan close. I have also discovered that Florida is not the only place where there are mortuaries and morgues on every street corner. It’s no thanks to the hardcore band from...
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The Arteries: Dead Sea (you'll love it because...
The Arteries’ Dead Sea is available now and for the “name your own price” fee. So dive in!
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“Very proud to be part of this generation. NFG’s self titled was one of the...”
– My response to Absolute Punk declaring the Drive-Thru Records Generation
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Dave & Marissa: …Move on
With an economy that has left many of us grounded, it’s good that Dave & Marissa have provided an musical ticket to allow those of us stuck in the confines of our living rooms to imagine being underneath streetlights that are not our own.
“Brooklyn & Mass.” two places I need to see are captured in one of the fantastic four on Dave & Marissa’s new EP …Move on.
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Trenton Woodley of Hands Like Houses: Ground...
nteContrary to popular belief, this interview does not contain wallabies or kangaroos, nor is there a threat of some poisonous reptile. It’s common to make such an assumption when writing about a band from Down Under. Of course, I’m referring to, Hands Like Houses – a group of experimental rock musicians who recently signed with Rise Records (From First to Last, The Early November, Of Mice and...
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Currents Amplyfi Hollywood and a Certain…Toy…
One cannot prepare enough for what they’ll hear when they write out questions. The answers can be a bore, or in this case, you can get the word “dildo” tossed around more than a hacky sack at a Counting Crows concert in 1993. Thanks Joe from Currents, thanks.
Not the type of girl who investigates the “cute” factor of a band before she sets out to interview them, I had no clue who I was...
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WatchYoung Statues Hang Out, Eat Pizza in ‘Spacism’
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Todd Kaden of Asleep: Unpleasant Tweeting and A...
Asleep, that’s what I should’ve done last night when my eyes were weighed down by stress from the day’s events. But instead I was sitting there getting in touch with my “hip” side listening to Childish Gambino on MLK Jr. Day and remembering a nice chat I had with Todd of oddly enough, the band Asleep.
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Help Hawthorne Heights reach 500,000 on their...
A simple click to “like” and you get to hear some free music from Hawthorne Height when they hit 500,000!
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December 2011
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Deer Park Avenue: Heritage, Hashtags and Hopeful...
Sister, Sister…Okay what you read will have nothing to do with the Mowry sisters that reigned supreme in the 90’s, but you will get an inside look into the minds of the Snyder sisters that make up Deer Park Avenue. They’re sound lays somewhere between rock and pop with the vocals being melodic and their sound being an intertwining of Sarah’s guitar and Stephanie’s drum set.
The California duo...
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Drew of I Call Fives’ Hot Topics
Imagine having to sell an elderly man a Christmas gift for his grandson while a vulgar Rap song infests the atmosphere. That’s just one incident in I Call Fives’ bassist, Drew life in the past two weeks he’s been working at Hot Topic. And while having a job in this economy is a highlight, it can’t compare to I Call Fives being the newest member of the Pure Noise family.
After letting Drew...
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Nick Martin on Lost & Loveless
I never knew how much music impacted the fashion world. It wasn’t until I published my first (and only) academic article on tight pants and emo culture that I saw the correlation between the two. They say clothes don’t make the man (and I say it doesn’t sell the sound), but when you have a brand that is sewn with stiches of optimism, then, I believe, there is a little leeway.
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Kurt von Stetten: Cyclops
With a new iPod in hand, I am still unsure how to get the “shuffle” off. So Kurt von Stetten’s latest, Cyclops, was the first album I’ve ever listened to out of order. And much like an anxious high school boy, I went through so much to end with “Pussy.”
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