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...
Five Corners Quintet
Hot Corner
Ricky-Tick Records
7/10
In a cold land known for beards and midnight sun, Finnish jazz ensemble Five Corners Quintet seem ... Read More...
Lazarus AD
The Onslaught
Metalblade Records
7/10
Despite the fact that I felt like I'd stumbled into Hot Topic or the Taste of Chaos tour, which isn't nec... Read More...
Gavin Castleton
Home
Five One, Inc.
8/10
Some albums are haunting, others are bizarre, and still others are downright incomprehensible. Gavin Castleton’s H... Read More...
Cancer Bats
Hail Destroyer
Metalblade Records
10/10
Fan-fucking-tastic, I love this album. It's as hip as it is brutal, metal with a very prominent punk-... Read More...
Holy crap! Look at this hi-tech feat! Racket's Gail Navarro interviews Keaton Simons in the hallway of the House of Blues.
PART 1
PART 2
-Interview by G... Read More...
Thursday
Common Existence
Epitaph
7/10
A delight for those suffering from post-hardcore blues, Common Existence delivers a monitored dosage of well-paced l... 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...
You might say that Ian Spiegelman is a funny man with a funny name. The novelist and former Gawker editor has made a career lampooning politicians, bankers, an... Read More...
Richie James Follin
Battle
Self-Released
8/10
Few artists have the honor of being able to say the put an album together themselves. Maybe they produced the ... Read More...
Phil Doucet is no slouch. The Katy Mae lead singer, guitarist and native New Yorker has spent the last several years plowing the musical fields, harvesting a d... 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...
Cannibal Corpse
Evisceration Plague
Metalblade Records
10/10
Every bit as awesome and brutal as you would expect from Cannibal Corpse, Evisceration Plague... 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...
