There is something about Fontaines D.C. and their kind of brutalist version of punk rock that feels very apropos for this age. Even the ironic album title, A Hero's Death
Cuss. It's a great word. One that I didn't realize not everyone used until I ended up going to college on the East Coast. They say "curse." Which, to me, is weird. It's
Goth rock was an underrated corner of the 80s rock world. Especially for angry teenagers living during that time. Not the murky swirling stuff, but the music that came
There hasn't been a band with a name as appropriate for the times we're currently living in than Stay Inside in quite a while. I mean, I suppose if there was a band called
I love the fact that there's a dude named Jeff Rosenstock from Long Island who started his musical career making ska music now making some of my favorite type of punk
There was a time when Grandaddy was labeled "the American Radiohead." The comparison never sat well with me, only because Radiohead are a bunch of snobbish whatevers who
The irony of Lost in the Country's first song being titled "Rock & Roll" is certainly not lost on me. Because it is discernibly not rock & roll. Despite rising form the
The Strokes are a band that debuted in 2001 and quickly rose to international fame. But here in 2020 are a group of 40-year-old men putting out albums that barely make a
There is nothing that shapes your life when you're 14 like music. At least that was the case back in mid-1987 when there was so little in terms of media to fill your
I listen to Waxahatchee and I'm confused. This album, Saint Cloud, has this kind of adult contemporary, singer-songwriter type thing. Like a more traditional Sheryl Crow
I seem to complain constantly about the lack of energy in modern rock music. The lack of drive and, quite frankly, anger. After all, that's why the youth start rock bands
The tragic death of David Berman in 2019 didn't really change my mind about Silver Jews, it just reinforced it. This album, American Water, is one that I've gone back to
Destroyer is almost an idea more than it is a band. It's a thing that lives inside Dan Bejar's head. It makes almost no sense when you pull back from it, and almost less