When Cage the Elephant released its' debut album just shy of two years ago, the band exhibited the kind of pent-up energy often found in one of Jack White’s many musical excursions; hectic, driven, and bouncing off the walls like a kid snowed in after a...
With a sixteen-year history of basically releasing the same thing each time they record a new album (punk rock covers of pop songs – d'uh!), it's a pretty safe assumption that everyone in the world knows what to expect of Me First and The Gimme Gimmes....
Sick Of Sarah and everything they represent is beautiful. What the band has done on its' debut long-player, 2205, is revive the truest and most honest kind of girlie power pop (think either The Runaways or The Bangles at the beginning of their respective careers)...
Awright youse,I'm not sure wha's goin' on here, but how'd I go from snaggin' FORTY pieces o' beaut-ee-ful SWAG fer you junkies, an' 'en I'm down ta twenty less 'en a week later? Which one o' youse ratted us out huh? HUH?!...
"Fat” Mike Burkett has gone on the record reasonably recently saying that, shortly before work began on Coaster in 2009, NOFX has strayed a little too far from center for everyone in the band's comfort and needed a little reigning in for their next...
The acclaimed Chicago rock band Wilco has formed its' own dBpm Records. The full-service label, which will release all future Wilco recordings and more, will be headquartered in Easthampton, MA and run by Wilco's longtime manager Tony Margherita. ANTI- Records...
Note: It is my goal to make it all the way through this review without using the cliché “have your cake and eat it too,” but I promise nothing.You know what the best thing is about a band’s greatest hits album? It’s all their...
Some records just can't help but make listeners feel a little dirty as they spin. To be fair, it isn't always an intentional act of defiling; there may not be something overtly offensive about the music, but there's just this ragged undercurrent of madness,...
So, on January 15, 2011 at 3:58 pm, blogger Jay Frank once again broached the perennial question of rock n' roll's vitality. Such dialogues are far from uncommon and, really, the question of whether or not rock is dead is as valid as it has ever been;...
When the press release announcing that Social Distortion had signed a new record deal with Epitaph Records went out in the middle of last year, no one was really shocked but there was a gratified chorus of, “Well, it's about time” that went up. That...