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...
The Get Up Kids were like the bratty kings of second-wave emo back in the late 90s. I listened to their 1999 album, Something to Write Home About, more times than I care...
I’ve gone on record to express my dispassionate shrug for American Football and their brand of nutless emo-ism. It’s not that I don’t appreciate their musicality...
I've always been a little weirded out by Dave Bazan's Christianity and the kind of pigeonholing of Pedro the Lion as a "Christian" band. After all, that's not my...
From note one I swear I thought this was a Daniel Johnston album. Not the least of which that leader singer, Chris Farren’s, voice sounds like a mashup of Johnston...
Do you think this is what Andrew W.K. was originally aiming for? Sorry, I just had to sneak in another AWK reference in a review to meet my annual quota. That g...
Like The Strokes in acid wash jeans, White Reaper tear it up on their latest album, keeping a weird hipster streak alive despite sounding like dudes who are mos...
Punk rock, noise rock, whatever this is, I like it. It has that kind of garage rock 50s swing with a thick bassline and bonkers drum fills (with that tambourine...
I'm ok with lead singers who don't have the greatest of voices. But this is really pushing it. I knew from Cap'n Jazz and the first Owls album, but I figured in...
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...
Singles collections can't really be judged in the same light as full LPs. This one is no exception, but it serves its purpose grandly. Chronologically sequenced...
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...
Employing some theatrics, and a whole bunch of technical proficiency, 31 Knots escapes the math rock pitfall of being too clean and meticulous. They're not afra...
I think this might be the kind of music kids in high school get beaten up for listening to these days. I wouldn't know, of course, but I can imagine some meathe...
The one issue with two person groups, especially when one is a keyboardist, is that songs often end up sounding samey samey. I mean Mates of State certainly mak...
