Lucero
1372 Overton Park
Universal Republic
10/10
FINALLY, a serious contender for album of the year. Took long enough. Now, I do not go tossing out f... Read More...
The Get Up Kids
with Youth Group and Pretty and Nice
The Glasshouse, Pomona, CA
Free parking, ins and outs and a stern, yet fair security force have always... Read More...
Sinner Sinners
Characters, Pomona, CA
September 26, 2009
Since when did the French know how to play punk like that?
The dark punk duo of Sam and Steve T... Read More...
Gaslight Anthem
W/ Murder By Death, The Loved Ones and Frank Turner
Chain Reaction – Anaheim, CA
Holy fuck. This was the best show I’ve been to in forever.... Read More...
The Blakes
Souvenir
Self Released
7/10
Souvenir is the latest album by garage rock band The Blakes. Even before their formation in Seattle, brothers Garn... Read More...
Mean Creek
The Sky (Or the Underground)
Old Flame Records
8/10
The quartet, known as Mean Creek aren’t exactly pussies. In a space of a year and a half, th... Read More...
Dappled Cities
Zounds
Dangerbird Records/ Speak N’Spiel
9/10
Australia is known for two things: Vegemite and Men at Work. Soon to be three, actually, thank... Read More...
Epitaph Records band, I Am Ghost, is a paradigm for up and coming rock bands. Despite their North American and European tour logs, the Long Beach based group st... Read More...
Alvin Band
Mantis Preying
Intelligent Noise Records
9/10
Put a white version of Bobby McFerrin with Aphex Twin’s eccentricity in your mind, and you’ve go... Read More...
Frankel
Anonymity is the New Fame
Autumn Tone
8/10
By day, Michael Orendy is just another regular, working class musician, playing in bands, moonlighting in... Read More...
Yoko Ono Plastic Ono Band
Between My Head and the Sky
Chimera Music
7/10
múm
Sing Along to Songs You Don’t Know
Fatcat
8/10
I’m going to review bot... Read More...
.357 Lover
Diorama of the Golden Lion
Self-Released
10/10
.357 Lover’s debut LP, Diorama of the Golden Lion rises up from the saturated musical mire and ... Read More...
Kittie
In The Black
E1 Records
9/10
Last time I heard from these scary Canadian chicks was either the ’99 or ’00 OzzFest. Attractive, roughly my age and ... Read More...
Danny Ross
One Way
Self-published
8/10
Think Danny Ross, and you think Brooklyn (or, at the very least, lower Manhattan). Since 2006, the native New Yorker... Read More...
Thrice
Beggars
Vagrant Records
9/10
Whoa! This is Thrice?! I assumed that after their little experiment with the Alchemy Index that they would go back to ... Read More...
Being The Emperor is time consuming. I’m always…errr…eating cinnamon bears or drinking booze or…uh…playing Katamari. With all these other tasks that needed to g... Read More...
