Review: Ladyslipper – The Time, Not The Weather
Ladyslipper is a Minneapolis post-punk trio with an unfortunately uncertain future at the moment. Their debut album is full of thick and super-cool heavy (but melodic) indie rock that sounds a bit like The Killers fighting Black Sabbath inside a Central Minnesota grain silo as Mission Of Burma blares from the speakers of a still-running (Read more…)
Review: Fell Far Behind – Reaching The Red Line
If you like New Found Glory or Bayside, you might just have found your new favorite band. Fell Far Behind is a New Jersey quintet that straddles the line between harder-edged rock and fast-paced pop-punk. It’s catchy, melodic, and solidly-played with loads of technical guitarmonies. Nothing really out of the ordinary, but pretty decent nonetheless. (Read more…)
Review: Polydream – Send Me To The Sun
I’m not sure why, but Madison, Wisconsin was not exactly where I expected Polydream to call home. Their Americana-tinged adult-oriented shoegaze pop just strikes me as being a bit out of place there. Polydream’s latest album Send Me To The Sun sounds (at times) a helluva lot like the Goo Goo Dolls (complete with the (Read more…)
Buckets Full of Emo (or) I Might Be Wrong (Part 4)
Well folks this is it. This is the end of the line. 80+ songs of tasty emo goodness. I know I missed a bunch of stuff so let me know what you would have included. If you missed any of the first three in this series, you can find them here: Part 1, Part 2, (Read more…)
Review: Paint It Black – New Lexicon
New Lexicon is fifteen killer new tracks from Jade Tree’s finest; Dr. Dan Yemin and Paint It Black are back and as pissed-off as ever. It’s the same formula as ever (imagine Kid Dynamite with Dan’s vocals instead of Jason’s and with most of the melody removed) but with some interesting interludes between songs. You (Read more…)
Review: Longview – Deep In The Mountains
Deep In The Mountains is the new album from bluegrass super-group Longview. I won’t even pretend to know much about the members’ other bands, but I’ll be doing some digging after hearing this record. A simply amazing record that has that high, lonesome sound like it really was recorded deep in the mountains. It is (Read more…)
Review: The Maine – The Way We Talk EP
The Way We Talk is full of run-of-the-mill radio-friendly pop-punk that does without most of the punk. The music is simple and pretty damn catchy, but just it just sounds like every other fucking poppy pop-punk-indie-rock band trying to make it onto TRL these days. Sure, The Maine does what they do pretty well, and (Read more…)
Review: The Expendables – The Expendables
The Expendables play ska that ranges from Goldfinger style ska-punk to more laid back Sublime-y or Pepper-ish island reggae grooves. This is something that could easily (and will likely) be written off by most critics as party music for ganja smokin’ college kids, but there is something that I sorta like about these Santa Cruz, (Read more…)
Live: The Forms & Cloud Cult @ Schubas
Alright. So last night I braved the elements and checked out The Forms and Cloud Cult at Schubas. Despite vocalist/guitarist Alex Tween acknowledging that he was sick and his voice wasn’t in tip-top shape, New York City’s The Forms blazed through a tight-as-hell set that included all my favorites off of The Forms like “Knowledge (Read more…)
