Review: The Strokes – The New Abnormal (2020)
byThe Strokes have always been indebted to the New York bands that came before them. The city is ground zero for the founding of…
Album Reviews
Review: Trivium – What The Dead Men Say (2020)
byTime to dust off my review skills for this year’s new Trivium album What the Dead Men Say, which comes out in 10 days…
Dan’s Top Albums of 2018
by2018 had just begun, and now it’s the final day of the year. I often approach the end of the year with a melancholy…
Review: Arctic Monkeys – Tranquility Base Hotel & Casino (2018)
byOne of the biggest rock bands in the world is set to release one of the most highly anticipated albums of the year, and…
Review: Trivium – The Sin and the Sentence (2017)
byAs I get older and time seems to go by way faster than it did even just ten years ago, new music releases from…
Review: Cold War Kids – LA Divine (2017)
byLA Divine is the product of a band that still has energy and ambition, momentum and creativity. For the Cold War Kids to still…
Review: Foxygen – Hang (2017)
byHang is an album of hope: stay strong, follow your dreams, believe in yourself, don’t give up– hang in there. The lyrics to Hang…
Review: Madjo – EP (2009)
byThis originally appeared in the fall issue of The Journal of a Musician, run by George Lepauw, a world-renown classical pianist in Chicago. A…
Review: Title Tracks – Long Dream (2016)
byJohn Davis isn’t going anywhere. Debuting in 1998, Davis and his DC dance-punk trio Q And Not U explored the spastic, synthy, sweaty sound…