You know how Weezer always aspired to be Cheap Trick? Well it now seems that on their major label debut, White Reaper aspires to be Weezer being Cheap Trick. So, second-wave...
Wow, talk about polarizing. Art Brut would make at least 80% of the US population eat a vat of razor blades, light themselves on fire and swan dive into the runoff...
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...
If Daria, the MTV cartoon from the 90s, started a band, this might be it. It’s a little too upbeat for her, honestly, but the sentiment is there. And Retirement...
Sometimes there is only so much peer pressure a guy can take before he breaks. And so it went with Charlie Bliss' new album, Guppy. Donald Trump was even suppla...
I definitely saw this album cover back when this thing came out in 2006. I mean, how could I miss it with the whole Jesus in front of wreckage thing going on? I...
Saved from the dark recesses of the old forgotten singles and defunct band drawer at the label I worked for, this thing has one song going for it: "Tangerine Sp...
I can't say the lead singer, John Paul Pitts', voice is my favorite. It sounds a little Kermit-y to me. Or like if Morrissey had an affair with Kermit and had a...
What rock music these days isn't in some varying throwback style? What's old is new and all that. It just seems that we've explored all the musical genres at th...
I hate how people are always comparing other bands to Wilco, so I won't do that to Apex Manor. But I guess by even mentioning them, I'm implicitly saying there ...
Nobody has ever accused Mr. Morrissey of being artistic with his solo record covers, but why the fuck is he standing there looking like my pissed off plumber af...
What happened to the fun robotic thing? This ain't Cold War music anymore; it's mid-nineties prog rock. It's mellow folks in their mid-thirties making music for...
Weezer really never was the same after Matt Sharp left the band. Sharp took with him all the quirky fun--and those wonderful keyboards. The Rentals, in fact, ar...
There's something about an Elvis Costello album that just sounds so damn good. The production is always so on point. You can somehow hear all the instruments an...
I have a personal investment in this one. No, I didn't actually pay for the album, but we did build the website for it--and it took longer to build than the ban...
They have really poured on the pop for this one. "Dope Nose" is a great, great pop song in all its power chord glory. It's never really clear when Weezer is bei...
Does the world need another lovelorn singer/songwriter? I don't know, but if they alll wrote such catchy pop, I say bring 'em on. On Benson's song "Folk Singer"...
There we go. This oughta make some of those Pinkerton-haters happy. Keeping the rockin' attitude of Pinkerton, but adding back in some of the funniness of the B...
