Review: Paper Thick Walls – A Thousand Novels (2011)
There’s something nostalgic about Paper Thick Walls’ debut album, A Thousand Novels, but not in the sense that they’ve borrowed from their musical predecessors
REVIEW: THE DØ – BOTH WAYS OPEN JAWS (2011)
A good musician once told me he was tiring of hearing new bands try too hard to play something new-sounding and not hard enough to play something that sounded like music. Though th
REVIEW: TELEPATHIQUE – ALL YOUR LOVERS EP (2011)
A few months back in Logan Square, everyone had started to trickle out of Logan Square Auditorium to catch cabs, the L and buses back home. I was going to join some friends, but in
REVIEW: GDP – USELESS EATERS (2011)
GDP has put forth his strongest effort yet with Useless Eaters. What makes this album stand above previous work from the West Orange, NJ rapper, born _____, is a seeming
Review: Eisley – The Valley (2011)
The interesting thing about the band Eisley is the fact that casual Eisley fans are few and far between. Either you’re completely ambivalent about the Texas five piece
REVIEW: TIMBER TIMBRE – CREEP ON CREEPIN’ ON (2011)
If there’s one person who shouldn’t be trusted to tell you to listen to Canada’s Timber Timbre, it might be me. After all, my review of the last release from the gr
REVIEW: LELIA BROUSSARD – MASQUERADE (2011)
I see big things for Lelia Broussard’s voice. It’s sweet but not annoying. It’s got texture, but not so much that she would narrow her audience. It’s original enough that y
REVIEW: LUPE FIASCO – LASERS (2011)
Today we welcome our newest contributor, Christopher Stoppiello. Christopher currently resides in Boston where he works in an office by day and writes music and fiction by night. M
REVIEW: HEMMINGBIRDS – DEATH WAVE (2010)
When I review a new album, I like to give it a couple listens before putting fingers to keyboard. I contend that the most important of these listens is what I refer to as the Morni