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...
I’ve been less than kind in my past mentions of No Age. I’ve blamed them for the drowned-in-fuzz aesthetic that came about in the late aughts that kind of swamped...
This is the shit that makes me angry about modern "rock" music. Angry that all that alt-folk, drowned-in-reverb garbage can still appear under the rock banner w...
I've been listening to this Dirty Nil album on repeat for weeks now. And in this day and age of on-demand media, that's saying a lot. To keep an album in rotati...
Admittedly I miss bands every once in a while. Ok, very often. Sometimes it's just me listening to a track or partial track of a band's album and dismissing it ...
Who the hell mixed this thing? I could listen to this CD on the world's best stereo and it would still sound as if I was playing it through my little cousin's H...
Rollicking rock and roll out of Scotland that you can actually understand! It's an interesting thing these days where bands can be throwbacks to both the 90s an...
Full disclosure: Ms. hipster is a drummer. I've always loved drummers. I've always loved drums. I love to hear drummers who are out to punish their equipment, p...
All rolling toms and bass drum, these guys are like gorillas (not Gorillaz) on psychedelics. By which I mean they chant and growl and pop and lock and even get ...
Holy fuckin hell I love this album. It's like Andrew W.K. for the indie set (but waaay better), and right out of the gate with "The Nights of Wine and Roses" we...
This is one of those bands that I've peripherally come across in my musical wanderings, but always dismissed them out of hand as "not my thing." Oh, how wrong I...
This ain't no pussy Brooklyn shit. Yeah, sure, they're a Brooklyn band, but they're not your mamby pamby boy/girl duo, tinkling synth dandies or fuzzed out nois...
If you don't get into this, you must have lead in your butthole. Fuzzy rock and roll goodness (but not as fuzzed out as that overrated No Age crap) hearkens bac...
You might think these guys are out of their minds listening to all of the screaming and electronic skullduggery and rip-roaring guitars and heavy beats, but the...
Stuck somewhere between that Halloween record you had as a kid with the spooky sounds on it and a musical representation of the movie The Others, The Paper Chas...
You could hold my feet over a hot fire and shove bamboo under my fingernails, but I'd still never be able to tell you what these guys are singing about. Maybe i...
These days not having a guitar in your band makes you artsy. We know that artsy isn't everybody's bag when it comes to music--as it usually means inaccessible a...
Mumble, mumble, hiss, buzz. What? Speak up, you freak, I can't hear you over the terribly mixed, drone rock you're spewing. Where the hell did this one come fro...
