With San Diego Comic Con just around the bend, and numbers of attendees surely through the roof, as a first time comer you are surely excited, nervous, and prob... Read More...
"Wait, you're not Warren..."
Oh, Tom Gabel, what a fine snark you have! We sat down with the Against Me! Front man (well, we sat down at our computer, h... Read More...
This is Robbie. He plays a lot of instruments really well. I hate him for it. But I like Robbie, so I booked him for a show that Racket put on. It went well. Or... Read More...
Ahh, it's that time, isn't it? Time for another collection of jams handpicked by The Emperor and mastered by Racket's own Kateri Lirio. With tunes from diverse ... Read More...
Stewart
Kicks
Self-Released
7/10
Goddammit. I am slightly ashamed that I find Stewart’s Kicks so damned catchy. Simple riffs, simpler drum beats, fairly l... Read More...
This year’s E3 involved a whole lot of flailing around as everyone made a mad dash to grab their slice of the motion game controller market pie. There was one ... Read More...
The Last Airbender
Dir: M. Night Shyamalan
Paramount Pictures
6/10
Who would have thought to take a goofy anime made by white people about a bald kid with... Read More...
Captain, We’re Sinking
It’s A Trap
Kind of Like Records
9/10
Holy shit. Friends of The Menzingers, Captain, We’re Sinking make sure that their amigos don’... Read More...
Animal Names
Let It Been
Boat Dreams From the Hill
5/10
First things first, the title is decent. I kinda hate the Beatles so poking fun, whether a sign of... Read More...
The Like
Release Me
Downtown Records
8/10
At first, I was astonished by the amount of growth in The Like since their 2005 debut LP Are You Thinking What I... Read More...
Evelyn Evelyn
Evelyn Evelyn
Eleven Records/8 Ft Records
8/10
Staring with a very “Mad World”-esque ballad, The Evelyn Evelyn record of the same name strik... Read More...
I am a huge fan of Phantom Planet, and unashamed to have been there before The OC(Don't call it that...) and to see them pass through having a million 14 year o... Read More...
The Flatliners
Cavalcade
Fat Wreck Chords
8/10
A friend of mine had a band called the Flatliners in the mid nineties- this is not that band. This Flatlin... Read More...
So, Travel Channel hits me with this email showing a frightened bearded man in an Evel Knievel helmet looking terrified and all I could think was “I wanna see t... Read More...
Minus The Bear
OMNI
Dangerbird Records
7/10
I’ve used one word to describe this album to anyone who’s asked- “Sexy.” This is an album full of certified ba... Read More...
Ivan Ives is a goddamned prolific rapper. And he's done so doing it by himself. He started his own label (No Threshold Records) to put out records his way and a... Read More...
