Backtrack: #1 Album of 2008

Yeah, yeah, I should’ve mentioned this about, erm, 7 months ago. Nevermind, the best album of a whole year is still going to be pretty damn awesome even a half year later, right?
I did actually make a Top 15 of 2008 list, but never got around to posting it. Things get crazy around the holiday [...]

Classics: Scorpions, “Wind of Change”

The Bean may have just vomited in her mouth a little bit. Klaus Meine may be insanely short. The outfits the band wore 20 years ago look out of place anywhere outside the Blue Oyster Bar (Google it). I care not. If you were in your late teens or early twenties in 1991, then you [...]

Classics: Cornershop presents Bubbley Kaur, “Topknot”

Cornershop is one my most beloved bands and it’s been far too long since we last heard from them. In honor of their first full-length album in seven (7!) years (Judy Sucks A Lemon For Breakfast, out on July 27th), have yourself a listen to my very favorite Cornershop jam, “Topknot”.
Like most Cornershop releases, “Topknot” [...]

New Band Day: The Loveburns

I haven’t been this excited about a new band in a while! I came across London three-piece The Loveburns earlier today and was immediately hooked. This band has a truly unique sound which they call “zombie lullabies for the darleck dancing generation”. They certainly know their way around a rockabilly beat, but manage to sound [...]

New Band Day: The Half Sisters

I bet every high school has a group of quirky, creative, arty, barefoot, nature girls that even the popular cliques observe with envy. Their seemingly carefree, unique ways and disregard of trends, only to start their own, give them an air of cool – not that they would care about a silly little thing like [...]