REVIEW: THE STROKES – THE NEW ABNORMAL (2020)
The Strokes have always been indebted to the New York bands that came before them. The city is ground zero for the founding of numerous musical movements and has been claimed to be the birthplace of punk rock. The raw, melodic, and straightforward sound of their breakthrough debut, Is This
REVIEW: ARCTIC MONKEYS – TRANQUILITY BASE HOTEL & CASINO (2018)
One of the biggest rock bands in the world is set to release one of the most highly anticipated albums of the year, and Alex Turner doesn’t want to talk about it. Outside of a handful of interviews with the Arctic Monkeys’ frontman, the marketing surrounding the release of the British band’s s
CONCERT REVIEW: DEFTONES AND INCUBUS AT THE HOLLYWOOD CASINO AMPHITHEATER (TINLEY PARK, IL)
Deftones (Sacramento, CA) and Incubus (Calabasas, CA)July 25th, 2015Hollywood Casino Amphitheater in Tinley Park, IL Name change. First Midwest Bank Amphitheater became Hollywood Casino Amphitheater this month. Prior to that, it was the Tweeter, or World Music Theater. You c
INTERVIEW: ORGY (LOS ANGELES)
Since 1994, Jay Gordon has been a standard-bearer for moving metal forward, incorporating industrial and electronic elements into rock and metal before many of his contemporaries. “Blue Monday” was a force to reckon with on its release. Despite being a rework of a New Order track, the single tor
INTERVIEW: TALISCO (FRANCE)
Road trips, jumping off cliffs into the blue waters, and sitting around campfires while passing around a bottle of whiskey until dawn are all images that flooded my mind upon my first listen of Talisco. I wasn’t the only one to conjure these images. Talisco’s music has been featured with brands
REVIEW: INTERPOL – EL PINTOR (2014)
“All the Rage Back Home” the lead single off of Interpol’s fifth album, El Pintor, recalls an excitement, a fevered energy that hasn’t been notably prominent in the band’s most recent releases, especially the epic and atmospheric previous effort, 2010’s self-tilted Interpo
CONCERT REVIEW: EX COPS WITH KID RUNNER, TIN ARMOR AT KOBO (COLUMBUS, OH)
Ex Cops (Brooklyn, NY), Tin Armor (Columbus, OH), Kid Runner (Columbus, OH)March 4th, 2013Kobo (Columbus, OH) Kobo is fast becoming one of the hotspots in Columbus for catching a smorgasbord of rising indie bands of all genres. Recently, the Pitchforkacclaimed
REVIEW: INTERPOL – TURN ON THE BRIGHT LIGHTS TENTH ANNIVERSARY EDITION (2012)
At first, I didn’t fully get the hype. It was around the time Turn on the Bright Lightswas showing up on countless Best of 2002 lists that I first picked up the debut album from the New York four-piece. I was 17; it was during Christmas break of my senior year of high school. Best Buy [&helli
REVIEW: O’BROTHER – BASEMENT WINDOW (2012)
O’Brother may be one of the most underrated bands on the touring circuit today. The five-piece is known for performing a combination of post-rock and post-hardcore. They come across as intense in recorded form, but exponentially moreso in their live performances. After the release of two EPs, near