Hard rock died some time ago, and now it’s just decaying. It’s a style that’s practiced by bands that go to Rock on the Range or make cameos on Spike TV Album Reviews
Screaming Females
Rose Mountain
February 25th, 2015 | by Matthew Lovett | published in Album Reviews | Leave A Comment »
Hard rock died some time ago, and now it’s just decaying. It’s a style that’s practiced by bands that go to Rock on the Range or make cameos on Spike TV
The Church
Further/Deeper
February 20th, 2015 | by Stephen Slaybaugh | published in Album Reviews | Leave A Comment »
The Church’s music has always existed in a cloud of hazy guitars and dreamily sung lyrics, but as hinted at with its title, the band’s latest threatens at times
Bettye LaVette
Worthy
February 17th, 2015 | by Dorian S. Ham | published in Album Reviews | Leave A Comment »
Despite all the proof to the contrary, it’s a commonly held belief that rock & roll is a young man’s game. Generally speaking, the mainstream market favors
A Place to Bury Strangers
Transfixiation
February 16th, 2015 | by Stephen Slaybaugh | published in Album Reviews | Leave A Comment »
Since forming a dozen or so years ago, A Place to Bury Strangers has created a small catalog that seems like a logical extension of the kind of feedback-laden
Marilyn Manson
The Pale Emperor
February 9th, 2015 | by Dorian S. Ham | published in Album Reviews | Leave A Comment »
If a shock rocker can no longer shock, where does he go from there? In a ham-fisted way, that’s been the question plaguing Marilyn Manson for years
Ty Segall Band, Live in San Francisco
Ty Segall, Mr. Face EP
February 6th, 2015 | by Matthew Lovett | published in Album Reviews | Leave A Comment »
Painting Ty Segall as anything but a modern mover and shaker of grisly garage rock is sort of impossible, especially
Title Fight
Hyperview
February 5th, 2015 | by Matthew Lovett | published in Album Reviews | Leave A Comment »
Title Fight is no stranger to making a complete overhaul of its sound. But you don’t even have to trace their entire catalog—one can immediately hear the
Viet Cong
Viet Cong
January 29th, 2015 | by Matthew Lovett | published in Album Reviews | Leave A Comment »
There’s something rapturous about Viet Cong’s self-titled debut that simply can’t be articulated in a way that hasn’t been used to describe its stylistic
The Decemberists
What a Terrible World, What a Beautiful World
January 23rd, 2015 | by Matthew Lovett | published in Album Reviews | Leave A Comment »
There are essentially two volumes to The Decemberists’ on-going story. The first extends from the band’s inception up
Belle and Sebastian
Girls in Peacetime Want to Dance
January 19th, 2015 | by Kevin J. Ellliott | published in Album Reviews | Leave A Comment »
On Dear Catastrophe Waitress and The Life Pursuit, Stuart Murdoch was having fun, dancing for the sake of dancing rather than