Nelsonville Music Festival 2014 In Pictures, In Words
2014 Nelsonville Music Festival – Images by Mara Robinson Editor’s Note: While I wasn’t able to make this year’s Nelsonville Music Festival, my good friend and damn fine photographer, Mara Robinson...
View ArticleWorld Cup Music Doesn’t Have to Suck, Just Stay Away From Official World Cup...
Here are two indisputable facts. Fact number one: The World Cup is the greatest sporting event of the modern era, in any era, on this planet, on any planet. The World Cup is the greatest sporting...
View ArticleA Jam Packed Wedesday with The Black Angels, California X, Screaming Females,...
There are times when it seems the pop kids and the dance kids have all the fun. Days, nay, weeks can go by without anything that perks up my ears. Then there are days like today, where it seems every...
View ArticleThe Rockometer: You’re Better Than This by Pile
Pile You’re Better Than This Exploding in Sound I can’t say that I’d go as far as to say You’re Better Than This, the new record by buzzy, Boston upstarts, Pile, is a difficult album, as...
View ArticleI Rock Cleveland’s Beachland Record Store Day DJ Playlist
With very few of the limited edition goods interesting me this Record Store Day outside of The Replacements reissue and the Mclusky reissue, I was free to spread the Record Store Day cheer in another...
View ArticleJam On It: New Jams by Uniform, Chomp, Institute, Spray Paint, and Lee Bains...
Uniform’s “Perfect World” is not what you’d expect from a new project featuring Ben Greenberg, last heard in The Men. With each successive release, The Men have become more classic rock than punk rock...
View ArticlePlay Me: “If Death Ever Slept” by Destruction Unit
If the lead preview track, “If Death Ever Slept” by Destruction Unit is any indication of what’s to come, there will be no radio-friendly unit-shifters on the band’s forthcoming album, Negative...
View ArticleThe Rockometer: Illegals in Heaven by Blank Realm
Blank Realm Illegals in Heaven Fire Records In one sense, yes, Illegals in Heaven is Blank Realm’s pop record, for gradually over the course of their career, the Brisbane art-punks have moved...
View ArticleWatch Me: “Dust” by Parquet Courts
Parquet Courts released an EP at the tail end of last year. I know this because it’s filed away with all of my other albums. I can’t remember much about this particular EP aside from the fact that...
View ArticleTop Jam: “Sour Candy” by Bleached
Photo by Nicole Anne Robbins If I was Little Steven, Bleached’s “Sour Candy” would be the coolest song in the world. I’m not Little Steven, I’m Bill, so “Sour Candy” is a top jam that wouldn’t sound...
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