Hope you're eating some nice tofurkey and lentil stuffing. Or turkey and mashed potatoes. Speaking of food, if you're ever bored and want to read some comical reviews of food I would suggest checking out Gigi's Reviews. If I ever got to meet her, I'd take her out on a date.
It's a meek day...
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It really feels like I'm witnessing a total solar eclipse when I find myself listening to a song over and over again for days on end. It's a different feeling from when I'm editing film to music, or, for example, when Lil' Wayne's "A Milli" first came out, where I listen and listen and...
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Brand New is perhaps best known for being everyone's favorite band to either love or love to have. The Long Island group's fourth studio album, Daisy, manages to bring the divisiveness to a whole new level.
The contrast between "soft and slow" and "loud and fast" that Brand New has made a staple of their...
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After a day or so, the lovely Rachael Cantu ended up sending me a copy of her album for reviewing! What a sweetheart. So thanks to her for that.
On to business: how does someone like Rachael not get picked up by some label yet? Her touring history consists of some legends (BB King just...
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I'd like to say to the new readers: thanks so much for subscribing/reading this blog regularly! Also, it's definitely really cool to see some people posting comments that aren't spam, in Russian, or Russian spammers. Before I get into this fairly new "it" band, I'd just like to announce that I never received a...
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Something that is refreshing: Bemis went back to the acoustics. When you get famous from being promoted by Chris Carrabba and riding on the coat tails of Saves the Day... maybe that fan base is something you don't want to turn your back on. Did Bemis turn his back on his fan base when...
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Them Crooked Vultures are one of those way too exciting bands. Angels and Airwaves was the last "supergroup" of mostly mainstream stars to form a band. Every so often you got that random Long Island duo-tour from Jesse Lacey and Kevin Devine or Lacey and John Nolan, and that sold out every show as...
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What is this? What are you, Bat for Lashes? It's part sexy, part entrancing, part horrible, part amazing. I am always thrown off when those artists who "hide behind a name" end up being only one person. Like onelinedrawing for instance. That's just Jonah Matranga. Dashboard Confessional was once just Chris Carrabba. Bat for...
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Fanfarlo might be considered the most scene band of the year. Running up a ruckus at SXSW and CMJ this year, Fanfarlo has the sound of a refined Beirut and the hype of a broken up 90s band's reunion show. Aside from tearing up the indie scene with it's "organic" sound and pseudo-lo fi...
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What do Avril Lavigne, Bowling for Soup, Pink, Lindsay Lohan, Lit, Simple Plan, Sevendust, The Donnas, Hot Hot Heat, American Hi-Fi, Default, Midtown, Pete Yorn, Fall Out Boy, All-American Rejects, SR-71, and The Academy Is... have in common? They've all had hit singles or albums produced by Butch Walker. As such, Butch Walker has...
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