Inevitable comparisons to Minneapolis’ Atmosphere aside, New York’s Metermaids blaze a strict duality, finding balance between their grounded roots, gritty rhymes and loveable accessibility. MC Swell and DJ Spacecaboose offer up their own “bad …

[by David Barnes]
Washington D.C. indie pop group Exit Clov’s songs of “revolution, ennui and societal idiocy” are putting the indie back in… well, indie. Vocalists Susan and Emily Hsu refuse to accept ideologies at face …

Drowned in Sound begins the day with an interesting note of news surrounding a family of oft-tainted musical royalty, The Osbournes. What was eye-catching about the blurb was not simply the fact that Ms. …

Banned in the US!! Part 1
[by Dana Paoli]
Bleach, Bleachmobile, Bleach03. Whatever the name, it’s three Japanese girls from Okinawa (their words, not mine) who’ve been making an unholy but surprisingly catchy racket for years. …

The band’s decade-long history is actually closer to sixteen years, but it was with the 1997 release, Shut Your Mouth and Open Your Eyes, and in particular the album’s single “Third Season,” which A Fire …

[by Dana Paoli]
OK, so they’re not exactly banned, but this is a piece on recent releases by two very deserving bands that have nearly no presence in America and/or the UK, Magic Dirt and Bleach …

[by: Daniel Toccalino]
At one point or another I devoted an immense amount of attention, in some form or another, to each of these songs. I can’t rightly tell you if I was obsessed with …

#30) Be Your Own PET Be Your Own PET
As much as music blogs were deemed unnecessary and deluded by mainstream media due to their quick-to-act hype of certain bands, so too can music fans classify …