Action Action | Don’t Cut Your Fabric To This Year’s Fashion | Rating: 8/11 | Reviewed by: Jennifer F. | Don’t Cut Your Fabric To This Year’s Fashion starts out well with “This Year’s Fashion,” and “Drug Like,” two of the best of the album. Plenty to listen to in both: Mark Thomas Kluepfel’s vocals, organ, drum, synthesizers, good stuff all around. They mix it up a bit […]
The Libertines | Up the Bracket | Rating: 10/11 | Reviewed by: Jennifer F. | The Libertines’ first full length album, Up the Bracket, was released in the States’ in March of 2003. This British band has no trouble grabbing the listeners attention with the opening track, “Vertigo,” and holding that interest until the end of the last hidden track, “Mocking Bird.” The entire record is filled […]
Franz Ferdinand | Franz Ferdinand | Rating: 10.5/11 | The four-piece Scottish band that answers to the name “Franz Ferdinand” set out to start a band that would “make music that girls could dance to.” I’m fairly certain that they’ve succeeded (and surpassed) this goal with their self-titled debut album. Franz Ferdinand as a whole is a very listenable, unique, and danceable CD. […]
The Killers | Washington University (St Louis, MO) | April 17, 2004 | Las Vegas, NV natives The Killers performed to a crowd of about eighty on Saturday night in an obscure local on the Washington University campus in St. Louis. The venue (more like room) was to the side of what seemed to be an indoor student cafe, partially […]
The Wildhearts | Stubbs BBQ (Austin, TX) | April 13, 2004 | Not very many bands can successfully open for a band like The Darkness: a band very rich in character; but The Wildhearts pulled it off. In fact, I can’t think of a better pairing! When The Wildhearts took the stage to a sold out crowd at Stubbs BBQ, […]
Ben Kweller | On My Way | Rating: 8.2/11 | There’s this theory regarding bands having a sophomore slump, meaning the release of their sophomore album will have far less success than the debut. A good portion of bands do suffer from this, but every now and then the really talented overcome this “slump.” Ben Kweller (to be referred to as BK from here on) […]
The Vines | Winning Days | Rating: 9.25/11 | Reviewed by: Melissa Lozano | The contagious enthusiastic sound of “Ride” kicks the Vines’ latest Capitol Records effort Winning Days, a follow-up to the band’s debut hit Highly Evolved. The album is a complete rollercoaster ride of melodic sounds laced within the first three tracks and diced into “She’s Got Something To Say To Me,” as well as hard […]
