Oh shit! It’s a triple! Hey kids, Today’s viewing is for a little band called Thunderheist. The only reason you could say that this band is little is from them not being on Wikipedia or iTunes, yet their music and lyrical abilities put their stuff at the top of my list. How on earth I stumbled upon these people I dare not share. But our beloved music bands happened to have stumbled upon them, as today’s video choice, “Jerk it,”...

Doesn’t anyone else marvel at how rare it has become to find a band brave enough to be creative without obsessively keeping an eye on their bottom line at the same time? It has become so rare, in fact, that sometimes when a band first starts, it’s difficult to believe in it. Tokyo Police Club was such a band when its debut EP came out; offering textural and tenuous guitar licks far more aged and accomplished than singer David Monks’...

No matter what type of music you like, it seems like someone’s got something to say. Whether it be about social injustice, political injustice, loss of freedom or a condition that the artist in question deems important, there’s a punk, a rocker, an emcee, a folkie and more lining up to talk about it. There is a “Message” annex of every genre of pop music and all of them utilize genre-specific variables as a vehicle to help drive them; be...

Southern California has this way of dulling the senses, especially during early July. A toxic mixture of apathy, gloom and Sublime cause most of us to forget that So-Cal music isn’t necessarily meant to be enjoyed with a Corona and a blunt. This is especially true in San Diego, where Calico Horse (formerly The Clock Work Arm) has released this summer's most hauntingly beautiful record. Before I mention that a certain someone from a certain San Diego band is producing...

Maybe it’s because the island’s surface area is so small – making a high population density and so very easy to hear and be influenced by the same things – or maybe it’s because any given band’s music has to travel such a great distance to reach foreign ears and so similarly bent groups tend to run together in waves, but it often seems like the UK exports a tremendous number of sound-alike bands. Think about it; a decent cross...

It's hard to believe that 2008 is already half over. The longest day of the year (or the shortest, if you are reading this in the southern hemisphere) has come and gone, and it's pretty much guaranteed that Christmas decorations will start showing up in store windows any day now. That being said, 2008 has already been a great year for music, and it's time for our annual half year review. The biggest question seemed to be whether or not...

This is part three of a three-part series on the 2008 Vans Warped Tour. Part one can be found here and part two can be found here. It was now about 4:30 PM, and the heat had started taking its toll on the crowd. Everywhere I looked I saw kids seeking shade, whether it was under the bed of a truck that was serving as a stage, or by leaning on the back of a portable toilet. I, however, was...

The verdict was out if Goldfinger would ever return. Over the last couple of years in particular, the band members’ business outside of the group saw a tremendous amount of expansion: drummer Darrin Pfieffer became a radio personality and president of a record label, John Feldmann became an activist keeping closer to full-time hours and Kelly LeMieux began instructing at the Paul Gilbert School Of Rock in Oregon. It had been three years since the band released a record (six...

This is part two of a three-part series on the 2008 Vans Warped Tour. Part one can be found here and part three is coming soon. Well so far it was shaping up to be a pretty good day. It was only 1:30 in the afternoon and I had already seen three pretty awesome bands, taken a ton of pictures, picked up a couple of CDs and had a couple of beers. And as a nice breeze started to come...

This is part one of a three-part series on the 2008 Vans Warped Tour. Part two can be found here and part three is coming soon. The punk rock purist in me really wanted to hate the Vans Warped Tour. Back in my youth, an all-day punk rock fest in San Francisco meant a show at The Farm, with bands like Discharge, G.B.H, Dayglo Abortions, D.R.I., Attitude Adjustment and countless others. Oftentimes there was no merch table to buy t-shirts...