The Heartless Bastards / The Gaslight Anthem / Good Old War – Live 4/3/09 @ The Bottom Lounge
This past Wednesday evening I headed downtown to check out Cloud Cult with Margot & The Nuclear So & So’s at Metro but ended up (regretfully) missing the show due (in part) to my own stubbornness. Anyhow, without seeing them this time around, I’d still recommend that you check out Cloud Cult if you can. (Read more…)
11 News Items You Might Be Interested In
Coalesce has posted two new songs from their forthcoming album OX (due out June 9th) on their Myspace page. The band is also playing at Reggie’s in Chicago on April, 24th. See you there? So it seems that Dinosaur Jr. will release their follow up to their reunion album (2007’s Beyond) on June 23rd have (Read more…)
Review: Monikers – Wake Up
I’ve been so out of touch lately and this album is another perfect example of this. Released last year on the great Kiss Of Death label, Monikers’ debut full-length Wake Up is an album that I really have no idea how I missed when it was initially released. I guess I can just chalk that (Read more…)
Review: Rodney Parker & The 50 Peso Reward – The Lonesome Dirge
Texas singer/songwriter Rodney Parker and his band the 50 Peso Reward released a pretty good country rock album last year called The Lonesome Dirge that I’ve heard no one talking about. While Parker’s songs are squarely on the pop/rock side of country, there is enough twang and enough empty Whiskey bottles that it really reminds (Read more…)
Review: One Win Choice – Define/Redefine EP
Guess what folks? The guys in New Jersey’s One Win Choice are back with a tasty slab of 7” wax featuring three new songs of fast and ferocious melodic hardcore that makes me wanna bounce around a pit and pump my fist in the air as I sing “woah oh oh.” Yeah, this is some (Read more…)





