When someone recommends me an album, or I get sent some EPK from some small label/no label band or artist, I really try my best to give them credit where credit is due. But sometimes... I have to play the devil. Judge and jury indeed.
This is Our Fight, from Gaitherburg, MD, is in the...
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I don't know if the title says it at all, but the Bay Area's watered down version of The Cure, Xiu Xiu, has produced another awkward-rock album. The sad thing about this album is that there is a crowd for it... and at times, I see myself actually liking some of it.
First off, how...
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Shane Kalantari Week continues with another choice pick, Rob Zombie. He picked this album seemingly because of the song titles. With song titles like "Jesus Frankenstein", "Mars Needs Women", and "Werewolf Women of the SS", how could you pick against this for a week from the person who eats ice cream with sriracha?
If you've...
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Have I not been center-justifying my images lately? Sorry, format-nazis.
NFG and DC have been doing their things respectively for a very long time. From their Florida origins to their days shared on Fiddler Records, both bands seem to be connected at the hip even though most don't know it. Recently, NFG and DC were...
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I thought this music died. But then I realized that where good music exists, there has to be bad music to contrast. And seemingly this album is doing it from first to last track.
Please entertain yourself with this YouTube video of them. Embedding was disabled and I couldn't be bothered with looking for one...
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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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