Review: Los Campesinos! – Romance is Boring (2010)
byIn building up to an album’s release, there is a standard procedure following recording and mixing geared towards creating buzz and word-of-mouth to fuel…
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Review: Alkaline Trio – This Addiction (2010)
bySeven has been associated with This Addiction, whether covering the CD itself to the earplugs the band uses during their tour. The integer itself…
Review: Dessa – A Badly Broken Code (2010)
byMy first exposure to Dessa just so happened to be on one of the False Hopes that the Minneapolis collective, Doomtree, has been churning…
Review Roundup: Cypress Hill, Deftones, The Dirty Heads, Serj Tankian, Silversun Pickups, Creed, Charlie Winston
byAdmittedly not much variety this week, both in terms of genre nor ratings. That’s just cause radio’s waking up and starting to deliver better…
Review: You, You’re Awesome – You’re Getting Old (2010)
byThe daring darling at The Hot Half Life recently made a monumental shift to Cincinnati from Chicago, leaving our fair city resembling more like…
Review: Mumford & Sons – Sigh No More (2010)
byThe 2008 British folk movement brought the two leading luminaries into the Bottom Lounge in Chicago for a half-filled show. Johnny Flynn and Laura…
Review Roundup: Gorillaz, Coheed, Dan Black, The Heavy, Switchfoot, Papercut Massacre
byCoheed & Cambria – The BrokenClaudio Sanchez is arguably one of the best personalities to break into alternative radio in the past decade. No…
Review Roundup: Avril Lavigne, Charlie Winston, Flobots, Mumford & Sons, Spoon
byJanuary is traditionally a rather desolate month in terms of fresh singles making it to the airwaves. The hot holiday season has cooled into…
Review: Dasha – Damned If We Do (2009)
byRochester isn’t very known nationally as a music hotbed despite its advantageous location between Toronto and New York City. Hence it’s little surprising that…