Shoegazers Need Polish, Have Potential
Has this ever happened to you? You’re at a rock show and astonishingly find yourself rocking out to the opening band. So you buy the record, but when you get home and put it on, it’s just not the same. Abby Gogo, a band that plays something between garage and shoe-gaze rock, shows potential but [...]
Review: Autolux – Transit Transit
After a deafening six-year silence, Autolux return with a new album that builds upon and evolves the dark, distortion-filled rock ‘n roll of their 2004 debut. The California-based band has garnered comparisons to ’90s alt-rock greats like Sonic Youth, thanks to its members’ ability to infuse noisy rock with real pop sensibility. The group’s forte [...]
Say Yea to Gorillaz, Broken Bells
Hard to believe 2010 is already 1/4 over! I feel like it was just yesterday when I wrote a post about my top rock albums of 2009! Three months into the new year, and there’s already been a smattering of great albums. Some, like Gorillaz’ Plastic Beach, I had been expecting. Others, like Yeasayer’s fantastic [...]
Top Rock Albums of 2009
I started reading High Fidelity by Nick Hornby a few days ago. It’s a clever British novel about a guy named Rob who owns a record shop and has an awful history with girls. One of the characters, Barry, is big on making top-five lists. In that spirit, I present my top five albums of [...]
Ash Album Under Construction
For a little while now, I’ve been meaning to gush in this blog about the awesomeness of one my all-time favorite bands, Ash. If you haven’t heard of this Irish outfit, it’s probably because you’re from the U.S. I only learned of their greatness because one of their albums (Free All Angels – still my [...]
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