Seeing that this is the unofficial last weekend of the summer, I thought it would make some sense to listen to (and share with all y’all) some music that is pretty much made exclusively for hot and lazy summer days. Ska, reggae, dub, etc… you know what I mean. Music that creates images of sandy [...]
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Monthly Archives: August 2008
Review: The Kills – Midnight Boom
Okay. What’s up with this? You may or may not know that Florida’s Discount was one of the best pop-punk bands of the mid-90’s. Guitarist Todd Rockhill went on to play in Unitas and The Draft and vocalist Alison Mosshart switched gears entirely and headed to London and changed her name to “VV” and started [...]
Review: Weezer – Weezer (The Red Album)
This album pretty much totally sucks. With the so-called new red album, Weezer has given us their third self-titled album. What assholes. Everyone knows that the first Weezer album and Pinkerton are good, but Weezer just hasn’t been the same since their comeback in 2001. Their second self-titled album, Maladroit, and Make Believe range from [...]
It came from the nineties (Vol. 34)
After being unimpressed with the debut Foo Fighters album they unleashed “Monkey Wrench” on us all. Damn. And then Green Day. I’m still amazed that they got as huge as they did without ever really truly changing what they did back on Kerplunk. Sure, they refined things a bit and had an enormous hit with [...]
Review: Scream Hello – Smart & Stupid EP
Are you looking for a little pop punk to close out the waning days of summer? Look no further than the Smart & Stupid EP from New Brunswick, New Jersey’s Scream Hello. These songs should (and I’m not even kidding) be the background music to an ESPN Baseball Tonight highlight reel. It ain’t fancy it’s [...]
Review: Jamie Lidell – Jim
Is Jamie Lidell for real or is his latest album Jim some sort of joke that I just don’t understand? I’m leaning toward the serious side of things. Lidell’s neo-soul crooning sounds totally retro while using a wholly modern bag of production tricks. While I loved Lidell’s 2005 hit “Multiply,” this new album takes it [...]
Review: Racebannon – Acid Or Blood
Acid Or Blood is a sludgy mess of sometimes technical and sometimes noisy metallic fury. It is the rock-n-roll equivalent of mud wrestling. In other (and more complex wordsmithery) this is bombastic and eardrum-shattering riffage that swerves from lumbering to spastic and back again. There is the blast beat beating and the really surprisingly groovy [...]
Review: Jr. Juggernaut – Ghost Poison
Is it just me or has Suburban Home seriously become one of the best record labels around? Another of their excellent recent releases is Jr. Juggernaut’s Ghost Posion. Full of hard-driving but twangy country-tinged rock that makes you want to put the top down and drive fast down a dusty gravel road Jr. Juggernaut has [...]
It came from the nineties (Vol. 33)
I was never the biggest Superchunk fan. I’m still not. I do (however) remember that one of my friends from high school (I think it was Darren?) was a huge Superchunk fan. Yeah. And even though I’m including Blur’s “Song 2” here, the self-titled Blur album is such a good record of which Song 2 [...]
Review: Natalie Portman’s Shaved Head – Glistening Pleasure
Natalie Portman’s Shaved Head plays idiotically bouncy disco-dance-pop that reminds me a lot of The Rapture at their least serious or at least a little of Black Kids without any of the “we’re the hottest shit around” pretension or hype that has accompanied everything that band touches. I’d bet money that Natalie Portman’s Shaved Head [...]
