Admittedly, I’m not the biggest Beck fan. That said I know he’s had an extensive career emerging with a folky hip-hop sound with an acid trip-like undertones that quickly turned to a more funk-oriented genre mix that kept you guessing over the years. From what I’ve heard his live performance is out of control. I…
Touché Amore has been one of those bands since the moment I heard their first album “… to the beat of a dead horse” chock full of throaty angst, fast-paced guitar riffs and blast beat styled drumming, I was hooked. Their next album “Parting the Sea Between Brightness and Me” arose a more polished and…
Growing up in the 90’s there were a lot of really interesting styles of music that emerged from the ashes of hair metal. Rage Against the Machine was probably my first real exposure into how politics mixed with the real world to have some completely negative and unintended consequences. Their message while not totally original…
LCD Soundsystem is one of those bands that no matter how many times I listen to their albums I take something new away from it. Their song structure from even their first album to this new one has always built on top of the 4 bars before it making some epic sounding song that takes…
Washed Out is one of those bands that I’m not even going to attempt to describe. It’s a bit electronic a bit indie if indie is even a genre but overall they’re just an experience. Most widely known for their song “Feel It All Around” which is the opening song to the IFC original sketch…
WAY back in 2005, just by chance, I heard this band Death From Above 1979 off of their major label debut “You’re a Woman, I’m a Machine.” I honestly couldn’t believe that what came pulsating out of my speakers was just the combination of drums, bass, and vocals. It was mountainous with the agility of…
So I was hanging out for a quick minute at Jinxed Furniture on Passyunk Ave in South Philadelphia where by buddy Jeremy works about maybe a month or two ago and I hear this music playing. It’s really chill, super rad driving bass lines, progressive drums, atmospheric guitar riffs, and higher pitched Joy Division-esque inspired vocal….
There are few albums that I can say, even at 34, that are truly transformative and original that the first time I heard it I stopped what I was doing to focus completely on the tracks of this amazing album. If you’ve heard any of Bon Iver’s previous albums they were amazing indie, folk records…
Hailing from Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, Hundredth just released their new album “Rare” and it’s an album that frankly surprised me in a big way. The first time I had heard of them is probably about five to six years ago when they opened for Every Time I Die at Union Transfer (formerly the Spaghetti Warehouse)….
This week, a long time favorite band of mine, Arcade Fire, just released Everything Now and as always it’s a deeply introspective album of music that spans every genre. From the beginning of their career, their sound was a very granola, indie rock feel, however, as they progressed album after album their sound got more…