REVIEW: DROPKICK MURPHYS – GOING OUT IN STYLE (FENWAY PARK BONUS EDITION) (2012)
There’s been an experiment I’ve been doing of late that has been yielding some pretty great results in terms of me enjoying and becoming better attached with music. It’s quite easy. You shut off this computer or iPad or phone or whatever. You go see a show. Caveat? Don’t listen to the band b
Review: Loma Prieta – I.V. (2012)
If you’re unfamiliar with Loma Prieta (like I was a few short months ago) this is their 4th full length, first with Deathwish Inc. If you’re unfamiliar with Deathwish, it’s run by Converge frontman Jacob Bannon, and whether you like the bands on the label or
Review: Carpenter – Sea to Sky (2010)
When you first find out Carpenter’s from Vancouver, Canada, it’s like first finding out Dan Aykroyd’s Canadian. And Will Arnett. Leslie Nielsen was a shocker. They play a punk you’d find coming out of Gainesville on the far opposite end of North America, rather than way up in British Columbi
CONCERT REVIEW: THRICE AT THE NEWPORT MUSIC HALL (COLUMBUS)
This review originally appeared in Ryan’s personal blog TUNED UP!, which also follows business trends in music in addition to the usual reviews and news. Thrice (Irvine, CA), La Dispute (Grand Rapids, MI), and O’Brother (Atlanta, GA)October 23rd, 2011Newport Mu
Review: Capsule – No Ghost (2011)
We’ve all put our music players on shuffle even though we know we want a specific kind of song or band, but are too indecisive to choose which one. So, we keep pressing next until we either find something perfect, or good enough, or smash into the car in front of us. Sometimes when goi
Concert Review: Danzig Legacy at the Congress Theater (Chicago)
Editor’s Note: Today we have a guest contributor coming at us from Frontier Psychiatrist, a site devoted to “urban life, music, food, drink, and culture.” Peter Lillis is on their staff, covering music. Peter and I go back to days debating and talking indie and punk music in Marquett
Review: The Great Explainer – The Way Things Swell (2010)
Jimmy Roxy is a composer/producer from Madison, Wisconsin. Ever since his dog died, the world has become a cruel, senseless place filled with hateful cats who feel the need to mark their territory in his closet. (Editor note: They made the adjective ‘uncanny’ to describe his ability to articulat
REVIEW: ED GEIN – BAD LUCK (2011)
Hope you’re in prime condition, circle pitters, because the Syracuse 5k is upon you. Ed Gein has returned from hiatus with their first album in six years and it’s 22 minutes of blistering hardcore at break neck speeds. So put some new insoles in your combat boots (or y
REVIEW: ICEAGE – NEW BRIGADE (2011)
Post-punk is indecipherable in my experience. It’s that bridge between punk and alternative (or grunge) where people were trying to break free from certain methodological constraints set by the 1970s to collapse upon something else. So revisiting it is like viewing a painter’s work-in-progress,