New Band Day: Royal Bangs

You know how hot people tend to travel in packs? Well, the same goes for hot bands. In honor of our upcoming 100best post, we bring you Tennessee’s own Royal Bangs. They released their debut We Breed Champions themselves in 2006, but – here’s where this month’s 100best band comes in – Patrick Carney checked [...]

Bean’s Picks For 2007

  15. Bloc Party, A Weekend In The City         essential tracks: “The Prayer”, “I Still Remember”   14. Kings Of Leon, Because Of The Times         “Ragoo”, “Fans”   13. Architecture In Helsinki, Places Like This         “Heart It Races”, “Like It Or Not”   [...]

Album/Single Of The Month: April

When We Were Dead … was first released, I read a few iffy reviews of it by people who seem to like one type of Modest Mouse sound but not another. I don’t get that. It seems to me that the variety – maybe even contradictions – in Modest Mouse is exactly what makes them [...]

Modest Mouse, “Steam Engenius”

DANG, the new Modest Mouse album, We Were Dead Before The Ship Even Sank, is so flippin’ good, I couldn’t wait any longer to post something from it. I haven’t read any reviews or reactions yet so I don’t know how everyone else feels about the album, but I can’t imagine anyone not loving it. [...]

Soundtrack Day: Found During Music Week

(I originally tried to post this over at Blogger, but it wouldn’t let me publish it. So I’m sticking in and changing the timestamp to when it was meant to be posted, so it doesn’t mess with the order of things too much.) Like I said the other day, this week has been Music Week [...]

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