The greatest thing about being a music blogger is being able to discover that simple bands like Jaill still exist in our candy-coated, bubble wrapped, teen-pop infested society. Jaill is an indie rock band from Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Band members, Vincent Kircher, Austin Dutmer, and Andrew Harris demonstrate a musical style that is very typical of the diverse characteristics of an indie rock band featuring basic rock structures, punk-rock influences, and fluctuations in their use of vocal counterpoints, harmony, and rhythm. [...]
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Senses Fail – Follow Your Bliss: The Best of Senses Fail album review
I remember listening to Senses Fail when I was in high school many years ago. I remember thinking that when they screamed their chorus during their melodic beats, that it was as if their passion was reaching out for people to feel what they had felt when they wrote the song. At that time, their passion burned the same way as mine did. When I had heard that they had released “Follow Your Bliss: The Best of Senses Fail” album, [...]
No Joy – Negaverse album review
Remember the 90s and how nonchalant the punk scene was? It was just a bunch of angsty musicians from small town suburbs sticking it to the man. The psych vibe of the late 80s is almost identical to this ideal of carefree, relaxed sounds, and both stayed away from each other in separate corners for the most part. However Montreal’s No Joy took these two genres, mashed them together and threw in some techno pizazz and created a follow up [...]
Teen Daze – All of Us, Together album review
I wish I could just be BFF’s with every up-and-coming young artist on the scene, I really do. But at the end of the day, I’m just like you, or at least some of the poor bastards you know: I’ve got a job to do. I don’t earn my ridiculous canvas bags of money with dollar signs on them from being nice, I earn them from being honest (not to be confused with the money that gets tucked in my [...]
The Ghost Inside – Get What You Give album review
About a month ago, I ended up at a hardcore band’s set at a festival, waiting for the set I really wanted to see to start. I’m not going to say who the band was, but it was awful. It was basically my introduction to the genre, and I took my hating the set to mean that I’d hate all hardcore music. I was wrong. The Ghost Inside’s June 19 release Get What You Give is 40 minutes of heavy [...]
Tomas Barfod – Salton Sea review
Danish music has not of yet left an especially impressive mark on popular music. Suffice it to say that the most prominent Danish musician right now, and of the last twenty or so years, may be Metallica’s Lars Ulrich. Scandinavian music in general does carry with it the catchiest connotations for the average American listener. The Danes are making tremendous strides, however, and one artist in particular may be able to capitalize on the wildfire popularity of indie electronica. With [...]
The Hives: A Night in Photos
The Hives – Howlin’ Pelle Almqvist Live performance is a skill I have seen very few bands master. Sure, I come on here a lot and post up some pictures, and often I tell you just how good a band is. I urge you to see a band – not because they’re perfect live, but because they’re darn good. Today, I’m going to preach to you that The Hives are one of the best live bands out there. The Hives [...]
Time and Space Society – Welcome Inside My Head album review
Indie rock outfit Time and Space Society’s 2012 album Welcome Inside My Head, is the bands first release since its 2007 debut. Once again utilizing English lyrics, the Hamburg/Berlin-based band completed an intimate album about the inner workings of the mind, one that chronicles the quick progression from happiness to sadness, confidence to self consciousness. Opening with “White Lights,” the album begins with a buoyant track that acts as a nice introduction to front man Claas Hoffman’s gaudy voice and [...]
Britah – Clouds album review
One of my favorite things about contributing to this site is getting to listen to some really obscure music, sometimes from halfway across the world. Whether it’s good or bad doesn’t really matter – what matters is that I get to listen to something I would’ve never heard otherwise. Today’s selection comes to us from Swedish pop artist Britah: her first full-length Clouds. This obviously isn’t a typical pop album: it’s more like very light indie pop. Opening songs “Moods” and [...]
Crocodiles – Endless Flowers album review
Overly distorted guitars usually represent angsty post-grunge rebellion rock. Crocodiles’ new album, Endless Flowers, takes a different direction entirely. Resting somewhere between the too-coolness of The Strokes and the airy nonchalance of Morrissey, Crocodiles blend a mix of surf rock, noise pop and fuzzy psychedelia on their latest effort. Morrissey fans will rejoice…or revolt. Hipsters will play the album at the beach. Hailing from San Diego, Crocodiles, comprised of frontman and programmer Brandon Welchez and multi-instrumentalist Charles Rowell have the [...]
