As I had previously written, 30 Seconds To Mars was finally slated to release their new album This Is War yesterday. While the band avoided disappointing fans with yet another postponement, the album unfortunately cannot say the same. After falling in love with the album’s first single, “Kings and Queens” I had been hopeful that [...]

Monday, prog-rockers Coheed and Cambria announced on their fan-site that they will be releasing a new album, titled Year of the Black Rainbow in April 2010, which will be followed by a US tour. While the official announcement of this album shouldn’t come as much of a shock to fans, the planned released date being [...]

Spoon is one of those rare American indie rock bands that release consistently good albums with straight-forward, yet infectious songs that continue to attract more and more listeners. From being virtually unknown in 1994, when they released their first EP, they have seeped into the mainstream, with their most recent release Ga Ga Ga Ga [...]

Remember the Switchfoot frontman, Jon Foreman?

I have figured out why there is such a high percentage of indie/emo/scene kids with bipolar disorder. If you take a listen to their music, you find the theme of the songs tend to group at the negative and positive ends of the emotional spectrum: “I want to kill myself by cutting my head [...]

After critically acclaimed album “The Devil and God Are Raging Inside of Me”, many critics couldn’t imagine emo kings Brand New stepping any further out of their type-casted persona. If there was any doubt before, there certainly is none now: Brand New is a tour-de-force.

Kid Cudi, also known as “Dat Kid from Cleveland”, has released his debut album, “Man on the Moon: End of Day”. The vulnerable, melancholic, and altogether eccentric indie-rap phenom exploded onto the scene with the success of his party banger anthem “Day’N’Nite”, a single that reached the top ten on Billboard’s “Hot 100” list.

“The thing about bands like Dirty Projectors, Animal Collective, and Deerhoof,” a friend said to me recently, “is that I only like them on paper. They’re experimental, they’re pushing boundaries – but I can’t really listen to the music.”

An interview on Time.com I recently read, with author and musician Elijah Wald being questioned on his recently released book How The Beatles Destroyed Rock ‘n’ Roll, got me thinking about the state of the musical record albums. Albums are fairly new, in the context of the history of music, and the creation of such [...]

 
Sam Beam’s performance moniker, Iron and Wine, hardly needs an introduction; you should recognize it from an M&M commercial and that ubiquitous Garden State soundtrack a few years back. But on paper, Iron and Wine sounds like so many other alt-folk acts out there, with murmured vocals and the occasional slide guitar – what accounts [...]