City and Colour
Sometimes
Vagrant Records
9/10
What. The. Fuck? While Chris Carraba may have kind of lead the way in heavier band front men st... Read More...
Thrice
Live at the House of Blues
Vagrant Record
9/10
When the crap did I start liking Thrice? While I meant that to be rhetorical, I suppose the actual a... Read More...
P.O.S.
Never Better
Rhymesayers
10/10
With artwork that puts Tool to shame, P.O.S. busts out his latest solo departure from Doomtree with a fury. There’s h... Read More...
Van Morrison
Astral Weeks Live at the Hollywood Bowl
Listen To The Lion Records
8/10
I have never seen Van Morrison live, but my roommate gave me this wa... Read More...
MC Lars
This Gigantic Robot Kills
Oglio Records
8/10
Accordions, robots, talking shit on hipster girls and Wesley Willis? How could I possibly even attem... Read More...
The Drones
Havilah
ATP Records
7/10
Oscillating between weak melodic shoe gaze and their best attempts at being Modest Mouse, The Drones leave me confused... Read More...
The Shaking Hands
The Shaking Hands
Kiss of Death Records
10/10
Shaking Hands id exactly what I wanted to listen to today. I couldn’t find my Rancid CD an... Read More...
Two Tongues
Two Tongues
Vagrant Records
6/10
Here's how I imagine Two Tongues starting:
Max Bemis (of Say Anything): God, who can I partner with to hig... Read More...
Crooked X
Crooked X
Capitol Records
9/10
At fourteen years old, I hadn’t been to a concert, I thought White Zombie was the epitome of badass, and I had ne... Read More...
Save Me From Myself/ Washed By Blood
Brian “Head” Welch
HarperOne Publishing
3/10
Wow. What a complete middle finger to fans of Brian “Head” Welch. If ... Read More...
Potluck
Pipe Dreams
Suburban Noize
7/10
I am horrified to find this as catchy as it is. Raps flow like bong-water over old-school beats in their latest al... Read More...
John Frusciante
The Empyrean
Record Collection
7/10
Wow, I am really glad I don’t do drugs. This is mostly because they’re expensive and would bar me from... Read More...
Ahhhhh, NAMM. It’s a glorious time. For any musician, regardless of style, genre, race, religious views, THIS is 100% AWESOME. Think every holiday ever rolled i... Read More...
Unearth. Or is it UnEarth? Whatever. So, I find out I get to talk to a metal band again and the obvious course of action is to pound a pitcher of Newcastle no l... Read More...
God, why does good fashion have to fall under the trap of bad branding? Tattooed Steel makes lazer-etched art on steel jewelry, including money clips, dog tags ... Read More...