BRANDON’S TOP ALBUMS OF 2017
10. Feist – Pleasure Feist returns after a six-year hiatus with a record about everything life gives and takes from us. Personnel from Broken Social Scene featured on Metals have been replaced with a more robust band. This impressive effort is her best since 2004’s
REVIEW: TRIVIUM – THE SIN AND THE SENTENCE (2017)
As I get older and time seems to go by way faster than it did even just ten years ago, new music releases from even favorite bands of mine seem to sneak up on me. Twelve years ago I was a junior in high school just dying while counting the days for Trivium’s The Crusade. It […]
REVIEW: COLD WAR KIDS – LA DIVINE (2017)
LA Divine is the product of a band that still has energy and ambition, momentum and creativity. For the Cold War Kids to still be channeling those forces on their sixth album is an admirable feat, but by no means unexpected. Since their promising 2006 debut Robbers & Cowards, the
PHOTOS + REVIEW: PORTUGAL. THE MAN AT SUNSHINE THEATER (ALBUQUERQUE, NM)
Portugal. The Man (Wasilla, Alaska/ Portland, OR) and HDBeenDope (Brooklyn, NY)March 18th, 2017Sunshine Theater in Albuquerque, NM Last Saturday night psychedelic indie-fusion group, Portugal. The Man brought their spring tour to downtown Albuquerque’s own Sunshine Theater. The event kic
REVIEW: FOXYGEN – HANG (2017)
Hang is an album of hope: stay strong, follow your dreams, believe in yourself, don’t give up– hang in there. The lyrics to Hang closer, “Rise Up,” say it all: “It’s time to wake up early/ Start taking care of your health/ And start doing all the hard things/ And believe i
Dan’s Top Albums of 2016
Much like its predecessor, 2016 went by in a flash; a humbling reminder of how quickly life goes by. If nothing else, music helps preserve the memories. Here are a few of the albums that accompanied my thoughts, feelings and experiences from the past year. 10. Radiohead –&
REVIEW: MADJO – EP (2009)
This originally appeared in the fall issue of The Journal of a Musician, run by George Lepauw, a world-renown classical pianist in Chicago. A renaissance man when it comes to music, the Journal seeks to provide remarkable insight into culture and music. I still am humbled to have been asked to
REVIEW: TITLE TRACKS – LONG DREAM (2016)
John 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 that seemed all the rage around the millennial year, quietly disbanding seven years later. Georgie James, Davis’ charming indie pop duo with Laura Berhann, d