20 Stories Falling = Citizen + Foxing + Hawthorne Heights … read more
Local Review: 20 Stories Falling – Existence
Local Review: it foot, it ears – teeter
it foot, it ears = Oneida + 75 Dollar Bill … read more
Local Music Reviews: Columbia Jones – Blue Collar Blues
Columbia Jones = Shakey Graves + Colter Wall … read more
Local Review: A Dead Desire – Resurrecting the Mind
A Dead Desire = Rise Against + Thirty Seconds to Mars … read more
Local Music Review: Wroclaw Ingleton – Julia Rampant
Wroclaw Ingleton = Airborne Toxic Event + Richard Buckner … read more
Local Review: 23 Extacy – Brutal
23 EXTACY BRUTAL Nova One Productions 23 Extacy = Ministry (but darker) + Error (but darker) The first time I got my mitts on old, unreleased and unavailable Red Bennies tracks from the bands’ first four years, it felt like panhandling a gold chunk. Fans of 23 Extacy should feel the same way with the
Local Review: Aaron Cole – Aorotica
Aaron Cole Aarotica Aaron Cole = The Prodigy + Clover With Aarotica, Aaron Cole, who has been involved in local projects for over a decade, blends repetitive electronic beats with dub and drum and bass with soft alt-rock and world music, resulting in an infectious dance mix for a party of monstrous proportions, or
Local Review: Almost Undone – Sugar & Despair
Almost Undone Sugar & Despair Combining the best of Evanescence and Kittie, Almost Undone present a choppy, chunky metal cocktail that’s a little bit nü, a little bit jagged core (Crisis, Otep, Kittie). I never liked Evanescence, but Brenna White does a better job than Amy Lee or Morgan Lander combined, especially since Kittie has
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Local Review: 90s Television – Going Blonde
90s Television Going Blonde Self-Released Street: 12.14.12 90s Television = The Strokes + Animal Collective + Pepper + Smile from the Streets You Hold–era John Frusciante I think these guys found their recording equipment rusting in some corner of the D.I. Going Blonde is a distorted mess, which makes certain tracks almost painful to bear.
Local Review – Max Pain and The Groovies – Self-Titled
Max Pain and the Groovies certainly have an affinity for the Texas psych scene, and this EP sounds more focused than anything I’ve heard from them before. … read more
