Review: Oceans – Nothing Collapses
Chicago’s own Oceans play that sort of epic (mostly) instrumental post-rock that’s closer to any sort of plinky Midwestern instrumental emo you might fondly remember from the 90’s than it is to instru-metal bands like Pelican and their peers. I only make that comparison because their new album Nothing Collapses is driving and forceful without (Read more…)
Review: Brian Bond – Fire & Gold
Just who is Brian Bond and why is he so awesome? Well, Will from Sound As Language (also of Beartrap PR who works with Brian Bond) has been raving about Brian for some time now and I’ve got to agree. His recently released full-length Fire & Gold is easily one of my favorite albums of (Read more…)
Review: Chris Wollard & The Ship Thieves – Chris Wollard & The Ship Thieves
Chuck Ragan did it. Tim Barry did it. Chris McCaughan did it. And now Chris Wollard has released his first solo album after spending years in punk/post-hardcore giants (and one my favorite bands ever) Hot Water Music. But don’t be fooled by all these guys, after playing in the (albeit lesser-known) pop-punk band Allister, I (Read more…)
Review: The Pica Beats – Beating Back The Claws Of The Cold
My daughter has been loving the award-winning animated short film Peter And The Wolf for the last few days, as have I. We got it from iTunes since Hailey’s favorite thing is watching movies on my iPhone. The stop-motion animation is wonderfully charming and with no words and only the score accompanying the visuals, it (Read more…)
Old & New News
New Found Glory played a set of all Green Day covers at Bamboozle Hoodwink this past weekend and here are some videos. Killswitch Engage have announced that their upcoming fourth (and again self-titled studio album is due out June 30, 2009. Fuck yeah! As if the fact the Crystal Castles suck isn’t reason enough, evidently (Read more…)
Blast From The Past: The Conways
So I was at the wedding of former bandmate and Allister drummer/guitarist/singer Tim on Friday night and saw a ton of old friends I haven’t seen in awhile including every former member of the band. We saw most of the EIU crew and realized that getting old isn’t all that glamorous. It was a great (Read more…)
