Tag: 2015
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It’s possible that more than half the people who’ll read this review have never even heard of Butch Walker. But he’s been one of my favorite artists for as far back as I can remember. When I was just a teenager he was the lead guitarist in a hair band I was really into called…
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Angelus Apatrida is a thrash metal band hailing from Albacete, Spain. It was formed in 2000 as more of a straightforward heavy metal band leaning in the power metal direction, but they gradually shifted gears and ventured into thrash territory. And boy are they good at it! It’s no secret that thrash is making a…
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To my ears, Yellowcard’s “Crash The Gates” sounds more like a recent Fall Out Boy song than a Yellowcard song. But, hey, I happen to love Fall Out Boy’s two newest albums. Suffice to say I can totally dig the energy here and the crunchy guitars are delicious. I’m not sure what the point to…
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Much has already been said about Björk’s new album, Vulnicura. For example, the first half of the title seems to be from the Latin word “vulnific,” meaning to cause injury. The second half seems to be from the Middle English word “cura,” meaning to care or cure. And, no, I’m not extremely smart like that.…
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Rad! It’s like a song from “My December” but catchier! It’s the song that should have followed “Never Again.”
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It’s been a few years since Emmy The Great — born Emma-Lee Moss — released her last album, Virtue in 2011, but you can hardly blame her when she’s so busy doing things like mentoring for the Joe Strummer Foundation for New Music (Strummerville), writing for The Guardian and Noisey, and re-enacting the Buffy The…
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“We are broken, but we’re fucking beautiful,” sings Neon Hitch on her hot new single “Freedom.” It sounds like something Katy Perry would sing — she dropped the F bomb multiple times during “Circle The Drain” on Teenage Dream — but we’re just fine with Neon Hitch singing it because, well, it’s brilliant.
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interview by Michael McCarthy It was only around twenty seconds into Night Demon’s debut full-length, Curse of the Damned, when I fell in love with it and knew it was going to be one of the very best metal albums I’d heard in a long time. The guitars were in the vein of Metallica’s “Whiplash”…
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“What do you know, I’m just a bad believer,” sings St. Vincent during “Bad Believer,” her brand new song for the deluxe edition of her self-titled album. It’s a song that finds her singing about going to church and fainting as the pastor touches her hand.
