World of Dance Review
Quest Crew and Beat Freaks Live
April 4th Pomona Fairplex, Pomona, CA
“World of Dance is like Comic Con for hip hop dancers” -this q... Read More...
Cursive
Mama, I’m Swollen
Saddle Creek
8/10
From the chaotic “In the Now” to the minimalistic “Donkey,” Tim Kasher’s more popular project continues in a v... Read More...
Seamonster
The Ascension of Archibald Balloonhead
Gold Robot/Elephant 6
8/10
Artist Todd Webb’s newest release under his musical moniker Seamonster contin... Read More...
Eli “Paperboy” Reed and The True Loves
Ace Of Spades EP/7”
Q Division/Virgin Records
9/10
In my time parading around as a “journalist,” I have become spo... Read More...
The Urgency
Self –Titled
Island Records
8/10
When one thinks of a band name like “The Urgency”, images of young twenty-somethings dolled up in lipstick... Read More...
Chris Wollard and The Ship Thieves
Chris Wollard and The Ship Thieves
No Idea Records
8/10
Chris Wollard, guitarist for Hot Water Music, takes a break fro... Read More...
Back in the day (which was a Wednesday, by the way) the only way to get info on your favorite bands was through magazines or television. Thankfully for all us l... Read More...
Fastball
Little White Lies
8/10
I don’t know if this album makes me feel reminiscent or simply old. Fun, catchy guitar riffs, songs about missing girls, an... Read More...
The Bakerton Group
El Rojo
Weathermaker Music
10/10
From the first ringing guitar lines of the intro to opener “Time Horizon” I liked this album. I was ho... Read More...
It’s a sunny Friday afternoon in June of 2002. At the Hyatt Regency in Downtown Columbus, Ohio, the bar is starting to fill with patrons the likes of which the... Read More...
The Hold Steady
A Positive Rage
Vagrant Records
10/10
Well, it’s about time. I was wondering when my ear’s balls were going to drop. It took 17 tracks of ba... Read More...
The Customer is Always Wrong: The Retail Chronicles
Edited by Jeff Martin
Soft Skull Press
9/10
As I have been a retail employee for the last decade, I r... Read More...
Blind Pilot
With Loch Lomond and Grizzly Circus
Live at the Casbah
8/10
I used to live in San Diego, but any dude who was over 21 when his girl wasn’t kno... Read More...
School Boy Humor
School Boy Humor
Vagrant Records
2/10
Oh, jeeeeesus. Please stop. How are these guys on the same label that hosted such bad-assery as Alk... Read More...
Virgins
Miscarriage
Kiss of Death Records
7/10
Okay, I have mixed feelings about this album. At times it sounds really mediocre and run-of-the-mill. Howev... Read More...
Sin City Massive
LMFAO Live
February 28, The Hudson Theatre, San Bernardino, CA.
For one night only, the Inland Empire transformed itself into a crazy nig... Read More...
