I won’t spend too much time fluffing this album up. I seriously can’t stand it. This came through my mailbox earlier this month and was recommended as “energetic indie pop from The Netherlands”. I gave it a chance. I seriously did. Her voice is good. No need for post-production magic for her. That’s the...
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To all readers, whether it’s new or old, into music or into ranting about Comcast, I hope this never happens to you. In fact, for this not to happen to you, please resort to any other means other than Comcast. A company that prides itself on customer relations and a home service has never...
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Lately, many bands have been toying with the idea of many EP releases rather than a full length album every one to two years. This almost completely eliminates the idea of the extended length concept album. Enter Light Chasers by Cloud Cult. A seemingly traditional concept album about a journey of some sort, the...
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Smoosh, once girls now young ladies, have been an on-going work-in-progress since their inception in 2004. Since their very older-than-their-age-of-10 release in 2004, fans seem to have been looking for the next step from innocent indie-pop to something… bigger. Maybe bigger isn’t the best word, but even if that were the case… they seem...
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There’s a tricky correlation between the level of pretension of an indie band and the number of Lady Gaga t-shirts worn by that band onstage. One Lady Gaga t-shirt is pretentious, like a half-assed attempt to be ironic. Two or three? Awesome. Where does one even find that many pieces of faded Gaga-Gear? But...
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I hate blatant rip off bands. Owl City aka The Postal Service pseudo-cover band. Neon Trees aka The Strokes pseudo-cover band. I hate it. It’s up there along the lines of a sampled song that gets more popular than the original song (Jason Derulo’s “Whatcha Say” aka sampled version of Imogen Heap’s “Hide and...
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