The Get Up Kids Something to Write Home About Vagrant 1999 sucked. Some trench coat-wearing winners shot up their high school. Woodstock was burnt down in a disgusting demonstration of oxymoronic violence. Brittney, Christina and the Backstreet Boys dominated the charts and it seemed that punk rock was taking the rest of the decade off. [...]
Chali 2na Fish Outta Water Decon For those of you saddened by the break-up of Jurassic 5, you can rejoice because Chali 2na has re-emerged with his debut solo album, and it’s easily as good as any of his former group’s records. Chali 2na, the “friendly neighborhood baritone,†is perhaps the most recognizable voice of [...]
Finn Riggins Vs. Wilderness Tender Loving Empire Every so often, an experimental band pierces through the mix of noise, ambience and self-indulgent repetitive instrumentals. Finn Riggins does exactly this. The Idaho-based trio has created their third album for Tender Loving Empire, and it kicks the asses of indie rockers that thought they had it all [...]
Adventureland Miramax DVD – Rated R Adventureland is two parts bittersweet love story and one part oddball comedy. When James Brennan graduates college, his life becomes a series of missed ring tosses. Instead of going on a trip to Europe, Brennan is forced to work at an amusement park to make ends meet. The film [...]
Nurses Apple’s Acre Dead Oceans Portland, Oregon’s Nurses have drawn up an admirable plan of attack for their Dead Oceans debut, Apple’s Acre. Album opener “Technicolor” follows many formulas in which successful hipsters and indie bands bordering legitimate stature adhere to—glossy keyboards, swirling synthesizer effects and minimal drumming with three-part reverb laden (of course) vocal [...]
Greg Newman The Cuts You Said Were Good Self-released The Cuts You Said Were Good is the second self-released album from San Diego singer/songwriter Greg Newman. Also acting as co-producer, Newman presents a singular brand of rock born of carefully crafted songwriting with a touch of subversion. Musically and vocally, the album refrains from abrasive [...]
Rio En Medio Frontier Manimal Vinyl Born to a Syrian painter and Ukrainian flamenco dancer and raised in the Arizona desert, Danielle Stech-Homsy, aka Rio En Medio, got an unlikely start as a professional musician when her secret demos were leaked to Devandra Banhart, who promptly released her first album. For her second release, Frontier, [...]
The self-approved tag team champs Icebloc are all about the club bangers with heavy-lean beats, sway dynamic and icy flow. The duo of J.Keys and Vito really came together on their latest album, Krankmusik, a bang-to-banger which features the slumpin “Put It In The Air,” track that makes you raise your drink in the air [...]
