Article Archive for April 2006
Sing Song Sung gives a brief glimpse of what is expected for the band’s debut release later this year, The Truth. Recorded under the guidance of Tony Hoffer (Beck, Belle & Sebastian) in LA, …
A tremendous thing happened to me while listening to this album. The realization of just how dense I truly am popped out at me as it finally occurred to me that Ane Brun is a …
I was lucky enough to have had the chance to see The Fever in Minneapolis a little while back and I was absolutely blown away. Before seeing the show, I hadn’t heard the band, …
Out of Nashville, Be Your Own PET offer a brand female fronted rock that I have been waiting for. It seems that a female can’t front a band without immediately being compared to the …
Detroit’s Saturday Looks Good To Me come highly recommended from a few friends. One calls them “sort of Beach Boys, Camera Obscura, Belle and Sebastian – real lo fi, very pretty stuff.” Another, …
Where did you first hear The Sounds? I heard the band far before I ever heard of the band, on a television commercial. Some might have first heard the group on a video game. No …
Amazon has an exclusive in studio Pearl Jam performance of the track “Life Wasted.” It’s pretty fantastic, I have to shrug when I hear less than supportive comments about the band. They keep …
Sometimes it’s really hard for me to determine whether or not hype is a good thing. Sometimes it can lead to a situation where expectations are far too demanding of a band, movie, book, television …
Check this trailer out for the film Too Tough To Die about the Ramones’ 30th Anniversary tribute show from the Tribeca Film Festival (link).
Kool Keith’s Dr. Octagon project was a surprising pleasure when I initially heard it. The man is back with a new release, The Return of Dr. Octagon, and the first single, “Ants,” is terrific. …
OK, here it is, my pal Jon and I are watchin’ Black Sheep and we were discussing the semantics surrounding Chris Farley’s Death. We came to the conclusion that Matthew Perry is inadvertently responsible for …
I love the part in High Fidelity when Dick picks up that chick from Roseanne by playing her a Stiff Little Fingers song. “Is this the new Green Day?” Love it! Anyways, …
