12 Days of Christmas MP3′s: Day 3 (annoying songs)
On the third day of Christmas my true love gave to me three French hens… and a whole bunch of Christmas MP3′s. In this case, some of the worst/most annoying/most awkward Christmas songs I’ve ever heard, and these aren’t meant to be novelty or joke songs. It’s true. I mean, every time I hear that (Read more…)
Cabinet Of Natural Curiousities – Searchlight Needles
I’ve been meaning to write a little something about this album for what seems like forever now. Searchlight Needles is the latest full-length from Cabinet Of Natural Curiosities, a group founded by Jasmine Dreame Wagner and based in both Missoula, MT and Brooklyn, NY. Searchlight Needles is a fairly quiet and peaceful album that combines (Read more…)
Strike Anywhere – Iron Front
How good is Strike Anywhere? I mean, seriously? Their new album Iron Front (the band’s first since 2006′s Dead FM) is full of potently blistering melodic hardcore punk. It isn’t anything you haven’t heard before from Strike Anywhere, but Iron Front is razor-sharp; more focused and biting than anything else the band has released. Vocalist (Read more…)
Ryan Mallot & Kelly Thomas – EP
I’ve been waiting for what seems like forever for a new record from Cincinnati’s 500 Miles To Memphis, and while this isn’t technically the, I was still super excited when I got this in the mail a few weeks back. This 5 song EP is a collaboration between Ryan Mallot (the frontman for 500 Miles (Read more…)
12 Days of Christmas MP3′s: Day 2 (indie songs)
On the second day of Christmas my true love sent to me, two turtle doves… and a whole bunch of Christmas MP3′s. One of those songs is Low’s “Just Like Christmas.” It’s probably my favorite non-traditional Christmas song, so (over the course of these twelve days) I’ll give you a few different versions of it. (Read more…)
Polar Bear Club – Chasing Hamburg
Hamburg, Germany is the city where The Beatles cut their teeth in the early 1960′s and has, thus, become somewhat of a mythical place in the history of rock music. So even though that isn’t the context that it’s presented in here on Polar Bear Club’s latest, Chasing Hamburg, it almost makes sense that PBC (Read more…)
12 Days of Christmas MP3′s: Day 1 (punk songs)
How does it go again? On the first day of Christmas my true love gave to me, a partridge in a pear tree and a whole bunch of Christmas MP3′s. Something like that, right? Well, the season is finally upon us so here come Christmas and holiday songs of all shapes, sizes, genres, etc… I (Read more…)
Such Gold – Stand Tall EP
Without even looking it up, I can tell you with 99.9% certainty that Such Gold has got to be from somewhere near Buffalo, NY (Rochester actually). Who else is gonna write a song called “Four Superbowls, No Rings?” So yeah, Such Gold’s new EP, Stand Tall, was recently released and features the three songs from (Read more…)
Coalesce – Ox
Writing about heavy music and not sounding (at least marginally) like an idiot is a difficult thing for me. I mean, how many times can you use words like “crushing,” “thunderous,” “dense,” and “complex” before it all starts to read the same? That being said, I’m going to try to do the impossible here because (Read more…)
