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Popblerd’s Best Albums of 2012: Drew’s List
Drew unleashes a typically diverse best-of 2012 list, featuring everyone from fun. and Miguel to Regina Spektor. Oh yeah, Kendrick Lamar is here too!!
From A Land Down Under: The Rubens
This small town band from Meanagle, New South Wales is right on the verge of making it big.
Spin Cycle: Muse, The 2nd Law
Muse’s sixth studio album includes some genre-hopping, but doesn’t fail to delight.
Spin Cycle: Band of Horses, Mirage Rock
Band of Horses reign it in and craft a harmonic homage to 70s AM radio on fourth album “Mirage Rock”
Spin Cycle: The Avett Brothers, The Carpenter
In the realm of swaying, stomping, harmonic pop-folk, The Avett Brothers stand only in the shadow of Mumford & Sons, a recent success story that, perhaps not-coincidentally, the long-running North Carolina brother-band is starting to bear more than a passing resemblance to. Comparing Mumford’s lone album to the Avett’s discography previously yielded only superficial comparisons: po-faced, earnest lyricism; the tell-tale lilt of a banjo here and there; shouty, fractured harmonies. But where the Mumfords use their Appalachian sensibilities […]
The Viewfinder: Ben Folds Five, “Do It Anyway”
Ben Folds Five has released the first video from their new record, “The Sound of the Life of the Mind”, and “Do It Anyway” features Fraggles. FRAGGLES, PEOPLE.
Spin Cycle: The Darkness, Hot Cakes
Almost a decade after Permission to Land and “I Believe in a Thing Called Love”, The Darkness once again rock out with their collective cock out. Popblerd reviews “Hot Cakes”.
The Popblerd Halftime Show: Drew’s Best of 2012 So Far
James Mercer and The Shins have created one of 2012’s best albums, according to Drew. Who else made his list? Read on to find out…
Spin Cycle: Glen Hansard, Rhythm and Repose
Glen Hansard, of Swell Season, The Frames, and Once fame, lends his soulful brogue to an all-new set of tunes on his first solo record, “Rhythm and Repose”.
We Saw It!: Chickenfoot at the Houston Bayou Music Center 5/29/12
On Tuesday, May 29th, Chickenfoot rocked the Bayou Music Center in downtown Houston, Texas. I was there. The short version of my take on the show is this: Holy. Crap. It’s almost 48 hours later, and I’m still dumbfounded by the show that I saw Tuesday night. Chickenfoot showed up fully prepared to defend the label of “supergroup.” Not that any of these guys really need to…they’ve all had superstar careers, and don’t require anyone else’s approval. Nonetheless, they appeared […]
