Contrary to popular belief, sometimes you can’t control how loud the music you listen to is. Exhibit A – It doesn’t matter if you have the speakers turned up to a Spinal Tap-like 11, Elliot Smith’s tunes still sound delicate and intimate. Exhibit B – A Place To Bury Strangers is crushingly loud even at [...]
This Addiction – Alkaline Trio
Almost 15 years into the game, Alkaline Trio is back with their seventh studio album, This Addiction. In some way the album marks a return to their roots, but little issues show up in a big way to derail much of This Addiction‘s momentum. It should be really good album at it’s core, but Alkaline [...]
Yes! – k-os
“I am not indie rock I was indeed hip-hop.” k-os makes his allegiances clear on “Zambony,” the opening track of the wildly entertaining Yes!. Perhaps he feels the need to self-define who he is because of his atypical an MC offerings. A product of Toronto, Ontario, Canada (where he’s had great success), k-os is the [...]
5 Best Live Sets Of 2009
No one ever claimed I’m not scatterbrained. Somehow in the dysfunction of the past couple months (grad school apps, freelancing, job hunting, not posting on here enough, ect.), doing a live music recap of 2009 totally slipped my mind. It’d be a shame to omit this from the good ol’ site, because I managed to [...]
New Moon Soundtrack
I know what you’re thinking, “Ugh…more Twilight stuff? This has to suck.” But wait…new material from Death Cab for Cutie, Thom Yorke, St. Vincent, and more? What?!? This is the mix tape an angsty teenage vampire would make for his boo if he had indie sensibilities. And apparently vampires love reverb, because its the album’s [...]
