How did I not know about this band already? I’m not sure what’s worse, though, that I didn’t already know about them or that I didn’t know about them AND they’re releasing singles FROM THEIR SECOND ALBUM!!! Anyway, “Meditations” is the second release from Holograms’ upcoming sophomore album Forever and it is easily one of the best tracks of 2013! It’s lo-fi old school post-punk mixing The Clash with Killing Joke at times and even some of the anthemic beauty […]
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The Magna Carta… Holy Grail Experience
John takes you through the entire Magna Carta… Holy Grail experience.
The Popblerd Halftime Show: Drew’s Best of 2013 So Far
Halfway through 2013, we’ve come to an interesting impasse: moreso than the last several years, the music of this year has been largely awesome. I don’t say this to suggest that I’m one of those curmudgeonly sorts that thinks new music blows; it’s just, we’ve been in a bit of a lull. Much of 2012 was boring on the album front, and 2011 was only marginally better. And yet, here we are at unlucky ’13, and I’ve already doled out […]
Wilson, Full Blast Fuckery: Album Review
The New Wave Of American Cock Rock is here!!!! Lock up your daughters! And your sons for that matter because it’s a new day and age, ladies and gents! Like the bratty younger brother of Every Time I Die (Probably thanks in part from frequent ETID producer Steve Evetts sitting behind the boards…), Wilson bring the short blasts of pure rawk furiosity (Yeah, it’s a made up word. What of it? I think I’d have to pay Clutch if I […]
Justin Timberlake Has That Tunnel Vision For You (Along With Nudity)
Does Robin Thicke remind you of Justin Timberlake or is it the other way around? And damn it for Jon B. not being on the scene right now to further blur the lines. Ha! Timberlake’s new video for “Tunnel Vision” doesn’t really copy Thicke’s naked chick format for the video to “Blurred Lines”, which we wrote about months ago . But it does have some artsy female nudity intertwined with Justin lip synching his lyrics and dancing. Thus, just beware that the video below may not […]
Mickey Gloss, “Are You Happy?”: The Singles Bar Review
Wall Of Voodoo meets Devo meets Arctic Monkeys with some manic psychedelia thrown in for good measure, Mickey Gloss is a genre-bending outfit from Australia now based in London who make the kind of music your ears will automatically drift towards. The vocals are mesmerizing, the chorus is hypnotic, and the breakdowns are raging! What more could you ask for in a raucous two and a half minute little ditty like this? Single “Are You Happy?” will be released on […]
The Preservation Hall Jazz Band, That’s It!: album review
Somewhere recently (I believe it was a radio interview with Louis Armstrong archivist Ricky Riccardi), I heard someone make the claim that no other American city is as musical as New Orleans. Sure, there are numerous cities that have been integral to the evolution of American music: Detroit, Nashville, New York, Chicago, Memphis, San Francisco, on down the line. But in accordance with the aforementioned claim, I’m hard pressed to think of another city where music is so much a […]
Bloc Party, “Ratchet”: The Viewfinder Review
Well, that was quick! Less than a year after their genre-defying comeback album it looks as if Bloc Party are going on the dreaded “indefinite hiatus” once again. Don’t fret just yet, though, as the band have one last batch of new songs to release before they go their separate ways. Slated for release on August 12th in the UK, The Nextwave Sessions could very well be Bloc Party’s swan song but if songs like first single “Ratchet” are indicative […]
Franz Ferdinand Has Two Sides of “Love” For You
It’s been quite a while since we’ve heard anything from the Glaswegian natives Franz Ferdinand. Back in 2009, they’d remixed their third album Tonight as a jaunty experiment entitled Blood: Franz Ferdinand. It was a nice idea at the time, and something to whet our teeth on until they re-emerged with their next full length. Toward the end of May, they did just that, announcing they would release Right Thoughts, Right Words, Right Action on August 26th. With that date […]
The Halftime Report: Gonzo’s picks for 2013 (so far)
The last two years have been fairly ho-hum for me in terms of music. I was concerned that 2013 would follow that pattern. Although 2013 still doesn’t look to be a banner year for my tastes in the way that 2010 was, there have been a number of noteworthy releases, particularly from the second quarter onward. Here are a few of my picks for 2013 to date (in no order). Jamie Lidell-Jamie Lidell (Warp) I fell hard for Jamie Lidell […]
The Editors, The Weight of Your Love: Album Review
On The Editors fourth full length long-player, they turn to Kings of Leon mainstay producer Jacquire King, presumably to emulate the former’s crossover success here in the U.S. It’s a notable goal and vocalist-guitarist Tom Smith seems more than a little eager to meet the task. Ditching the electronic heavy sound of 2009’s In This Light and On This Evening in favor of a more straight-ahead rock sound, the loss or original guitarist Chris Urbanowicz is immediately evident. The resulting album […]
