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If anyone deserves an award for juggling two careers, it’s Rhett Miller. When he’s not busy touring with his alt-country outfit Old 97’s, Rhett Miller spends his downtime promoting and recording for his solo act. In the gaps where many would normally stop for a breath, Miller is out playing shows all over the States. [...]
The opening riff of Tenacious D’s latest effort is one that might fool the listener. While at first it seems typical of what has come to be expected of the Californian duo – a simple, acoustic melody backed up by Jack Black’s characteristically over the top vocals – the electric guitars and drumming soon storm in, [...]
Those worried that Beach House may risk following up the ten songs of blissful, heartrending perfection that was 2010′s Teen Dream with a lesser effort or foreign sound can return to kaleidoscopic slumbers. Beach House burst straight out of the gate on Bloom with the same bold maneuver they dropped on team Teen Dream: they [...]
The opening atonal slurring and bass line of “Stuck,” the opening track on Antibodies, seems to instantly promise an intelligent and varied pop album. The opening few seconds are the kind that really grab you; make you look up from your keyboard or wherever you may be listening to it for the first time, and [...]
If you don’t know singer, musician, producer and analog devotee Nick Waterhouse yet, you will soon. The 25 year-old product of Huntington Beach, CA turned heads at SXSW 2012 in March and released his debut album, Time’s All Gone, on May 1. The album is a fiercely confident, masterfully played and recorded work of a [...]
On Neck of the Woods, Silversun Pickups add enough new twists to keep things fresh without straying far from what has cemented them as one of the more exciting bands in rock and roll ever since Pikul. “Skin Graph” opens the album patiently with soft drones and gentle strokes weaning you from whatever world your [...]
Iggy Pop, the bad boy of “Search and Destroy”, the self-dubbed “walking cheetah with a hand full of napalm” has released a romantic album in French called Apres, the singer announced yesterday in Paris. Daring record executives who said Apres is a potential flop, the punk rock progenitor released the album directly on iTunes. Apres [...]
It’s damn near impossible to fathom a band releasing a debut album that can summon the rebirth or total resuscitation of hardcore and punk, but that miraculous injection is exactly what OFF! have jacked into the bloodstream of a bloated and nostalgically remembered genre with their 16 songs in 16 minutes debut stamp of anger, [...]
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