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PUDDLE OF MUDD – RE:(DISC)OVERED (Album Review)

Cover sets are a great way for bands to fill the gap between studio albums while connecting with listeners to and old to bond...

COUNTING CROWS – AUGUST AND EVERYTHING AFTER: LIVE AT TOWN HALL (Blu-Ray/CD Review)

It's been nearly 18 years since COUNTING CROWS released their wildly-successful Geffen Records debut, AUGUST AND EVERYTHING AFTER. While the album would go platinum...

KITTIE – I’VE FAILED YOU (Album Review)

There's a interesting connection between KITTIE and their labelmates in CHIMAIRA - both bands initially got early career boosts through appearances on a short-lived USA network series called...

20th Anniversary of 1991: Five Terrible Albums that You’d hoped to forget…

With so many 20th Anniversary Editions of albums that were released in 1991 hitting the marketplace, it's important to remember that there were some...

CHIMAIRA – THE AGE OF HELL (Album Review)

It's hard to believe that it's already been nearly twelve years since a then-unknown band called CHIMAIRA rocked the stage on the short-lived Farmclub...

VICTORIAN HALLS – CHARLATAN (Album Review)

There's something slightly evil brewing just beneath the surface of CHARLATAN, the Victory Records debut from Chicago's VICTORIAN HALLS. Stealthily working it's way underneath the...

THE BIRTHDAY MASSACRE – IMAGINARY MONSTERS (Archive EP Review)

As I noted when I first posted news of IMAGINARY MONSTERS, the new EP from THE BIRTHDAY MASSACRE - their 2010 full-length PINS & NEEDLES has not...

GUSTER – ON THE OCEAN (EP Review)

Keeping their established fanbase engaged with a collection of songs left-over from the sessions that became 2010's EASY WONDERFUL, Boston's GUSTER have issued the ON THE OCEAN...

Grandiose Delusions: A Virtual Smack for the Arrogant Wannabe ‘Journalist’ or ‘Photographer’

I'm not sure what they're teaching at colleges these days, but it seems there's a major disconnect happening when it comes to recent graduates...

FOUNTAINS OF WAYNE – SKY FULL OF HOLES (Album Review)

Adding a new layer of jangling acoustic guitars to their signature sound, master power-pop rockers FOUNTAINS OF WAYNE have delivered their fifth studio album,...

IWRESTLEDABEARONCE – RUINING IT FOR EVERYBODY (Album Review)

I was pretty sure that I was approaching a boss in some long-lost SNES game upon pressing the play button to start virtual rotation of RUINING IT FOR EVERYBODY,...

RIVAL SONS – PRESSURE & TIME (Album Review)

For the past few months, I've been getting Los Angeles rockers RIVAL SONS tossed in front of me constantly. It seems every few years...

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