Brand New felt like growing up, so it did. Less than two years after its pop-punk debut Your Favorite Weapon declared the Long Island quartet simultaneously juvenile and well-cultured in the art of the plucky, well-intentioned cuckold, here was an astronaut on a barren landscape, barely casting a shadow. Deja Entendu was an aggressive move […]
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Five seconds into The Modern Lovers self-titled debut and it’s clear that this album is something special.
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The Cure influenced two members of what is widely considered to be one of the most …
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Ever wonder what came before all the fun.?
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This album isn’t a patriotic tribute or a collection of anthems …
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Billy Joel is still rock ‘n’ roll to us.
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Songs About Jane was 2004’s album to be loved and shared and sung to ravenously. It was Maroon 5 before singer Adam Levine stamped his name after “ft.” on song after song. It was the thrill of “Harder To Breathe,” “She Will Be Loved” and the infectious “This Love.” It was a little known band […]
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Whitmore swaps out his usual alt-country twinge for blues overtones, with respectable results.
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What happens when three music producers and a red-headed Scottish girl form a band?
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“Sometimes you make me feel like I’m living at the edge of the world” Smith says to you, and bam, you’re in another universe for the next 70 minutes of Disintegration.
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The jaunty cry sounds like “piss off, yeah,” or possibly “kiss-off, hey!” Either would be appropriate. That’s Paul McCartney on “Too Many People,” the opening song on his first classic album without the Beatles. It was this period where he was smeared by critics and derided by his famous former songwriting partner. This debut for McCartney […]
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This album crackles like a dusty antique.
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