Green Day | Uno! | Rating: 8/11 | Reviewed by: Kilby Shepard | Green Day has gone from Berkeley, CA gutter punks to stadium-filling activists to Broadway and now they’re back with Uno!, the first in a trilogy of new studio releases. Recorded from February to June 2012, Billie Joe stated in a prior interview that the band ditched the idea of a double album, instead, opting […]
8mm | Between The Devil & Two Black Hearts | Rating: 9/11 | The best thing about music that makes the head hurt when you try to pigeonhole or assign a definitive genre/label to it is the beauty of being artistic: it’s expression purely on one’s own terms and screw all else. You see, Sean and Juliette Beavan have been around the music block once […]
The XX | Coexist | Rating: 8.25/11 | Reviewed by: Joshua Hammond | There are times when the weight of one’s brilliance ends up resulting in more paper cuts than certificates hanging on the fridge. Once the spotlight is plugged in and the shadows of genius are exaggerated the expansion of what lies within it is significantly large. At time, situations that would normally seem fine […]
The Walkmen | Heaven | Rating: 7.9/11 | Reviewed by: Joshua Hammond | The act of making an album is honestly as much of a tightrope walk as a simple process of creation. The balance of sticking to your signature sound while managing to be true to the growth that has occurred since your previous release often borders on miracle status if completed. Regardless of the […]
Silversun Pickups | Neck Of The Woods | Rating: 9/11 | Reviewed by: Kilby Shepard | Silversun Pickups third full-length release entitled Neck of the Woods(Dangerbird Records) hopefully will bring an end to the Smashing Pumpkins comparisons. Citing the derivative nature of a band and its songs is shortsighted and an easy-out for critics. It comes from the same critics who feel it is a slight to […]
The Mowgli’s | Sound The Drum | Rating: 8/11 | Let’s be honest; so much upbeat and full throttle chipperness is not for everyone. The first half of this album will probably get on someone’s nerve as the album seems front-loaded with every song they may have recorded while on a trippy combo caffeine and sugar high, thereby proving the validity of the infamous Twinkie […]
The Broken Needles | Terra Nullius | Rating: 8/11 | Reviewed by: Kilby Shepard | Years and years ago, while their mates were be-bopping to yet another Kylie Minogue remix, four Australian boys must have dusted off some old LP’s by the New York Dolls, Steve Earle, Neil Young and Merle Haggard. A few years later and only slightly past their boyish years, The Broken Needles […]
