A disappointing first day with iPhone
Sorry for the lack of posts around here the past few days. I got an iPhone 3G yesterday and have been trying to figure out exactly what is wrong with it since. I stopped off at the closest AT&T store yesterday on my way home from work and picked up an iPhone 3G and called (Read more…)
Review: Deny Everything – Fire This Time
I’ve been listening to the album a lot (A LOT!) lately and it is a furious blast of melodic hardcore from Cologne’s Deny Everything. That’s right, these guys call Deutschland home and they sound a ton like Kid Dynamite and/or Paint It Black. Sounds great, doesn’t it? Yeah. The vocals have a little more rasp (Read more…)
Win Black Kids’ Partie Traumatic
Back in July I wrote about the new album from Black Kids, Partie Traumatic and said I really liked the record. Well, now here’s your chance to get a copy of the album and a poster signed by the band. That’s right! Win a copy of Partie Traumatic from Black Kids and a poster signed (Read more…)
Review: The Details – Draw A Distance. Draw A Border.
The Details call the prairies of Western Canada and Winnipeg, Manitoba home and their latest album (even though it’s over a year old) is called Draw A Distance. Draw A Border. Its songs border on mainstream alterna-rock (think perhaps the Goo Goo Dolls) without being emotionless or insincere. They go from rockin’ to slower and (Read more…)
It came from the nineties (Vol. 39)
Forgive me the Wilson Phillips song, okay? I also give you stuff from Sugar and The Connells who were both ridiculously good… just like that Better Than Ezra song. As always, just find “1990’s” in the drop down category list in the sidebar to find all the other posts in this series and if you (Read more…)
Review: Jaguar Love – Take Me To The Sea
Jaguar Love is the first true post-Blood Brothers project that’s made it past adolescence. Featuring vocalist Johnny Whitney and guitarist Cody Votolato (both former Blood Brothers) and Jay Clark (formerly of Pretty Girls Make Graves), Jaguar Love’s debut Take Me To The Sea has been (at least for me) damn hotly anticipated. So what do (Read more…)
Riot Fest – October 10-12 in Chicago
While Gainesville, Florida might have the much larger and notorious autumn punk rock fest, Chicago certainly holds its own with the fourth year of Riot Fest. Seriously, what could be better than three days of punk rock in Chicago in October? Well, frankly, not much. Past performers include Naked Raygun, Sludgeworth, Dillinger Four, The Bollweevils, (Read more…)
Review: Sun Kil Moon – April
Mark Kozelek has one of the greatest and most distinctive voices I’ve ever heard. It sounds like nostalgia; like a faded photograph of you and your brothers in the backyard of your childhood home on that old white porch swing where that big oak tree used to stand. It sounds like the warm orange glow (Read more…)
Hey Chicago what do you say?
Yesterday afternoon the Cubs clinched the NL Central and a trip to the postseason for the second consecutive year. It is the first time they’ve done that in the last 100 years and for me to say that I’m excited would be a bit of an understatement. As the Cubs advance through the postseason and (Read more…)
