REVIEW ROUNDUP: CYPRESS HILL, DEFTONES, THE DIRTY HEADS, SERJ TANKIAN, SILVERSUN PICKUPS, CREED, CHARLIE WINSTON
Admittedly 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 material after a slow January. Charlie Winston – I Love Your SmileThe newest from UK singer/songwriter, Charlie Winston, sounds straight from
REVIEW: YOU, YOU’RE AWESOME – YOU’RE GETTING OLD (2010)
The daring darling at The Hot Half Life recently made a monumental shift to Cincinnati from Chicago, leaving our fair city resembling more like a lawless, crime-infested Gotham City than…I exaggerate…but she did telegraph back dispatches in the Cincy scene! One such cherished discovery
REVIEW: MUMFORD & SONS – SIGH NO MORE (2010)
The 2008 British folk movement brought the two leading luminaries into the Bottom Lounge in Chicago for a half-filled show. Johnny Flynn and Laura Marling had been stirring hearts and minds, expanding into the festival circuit. Woe be thee who missed the opening act, because Marcus Mumford and compa
REVIEW ROUNDUP: GORILLAZ, COHEED, DAN BLACK, THE HEAVY, SWITCHFOOT, PAPERCUT MASSACRE
Coheed & Cambria – The BrokenClaudio Sanchez is arguably one of the best personalities to break into alternative radio in the past decade. No one else possesses his falsetto and mammoth guitar abilities in one person, nor the hair. As Coheed & Cambria supposedly winds down its ep
ON THE HORIZON: THE SOULFUL, MAJESTIC MADJO
In December, an email landed in my inbox from France with a gratuit MP3 from this unheard of singer. Free and French? Sign me up! Her voice shook me, akin more to North American songstresses of late than the likes of Camille, Charlie or Nolwenn Leroy. Madjo is an île of soul-infused
REVIEW ROUNDUP: AVRIL LAVIGNE, CHARLIE WINSTON, FLOBOTS, MUMFORD & SONS, SPOON
January is traditionally a rather desolate month in terms of fresh singles making it to the airwaves. The hot holiday season has cooled into a frigid empty tundra. But hey, there’s a couple new tracks in the snow of late! Sorry for the delay y’all, spent the last two and a half weeks reconnectin