With synthpop’s recent burst of popularity in the college music scene, it’s hard to sift through every bit of music in order to find what is actually worth your time. “Pool,” the latest release from Porches, is one synthpop album that will grab your attention. What’s more, it’ll deserve it. Throughout the album vocalist Aaron Maine lazily croons as the synths ... Read More »
Charles Bradley “Changes” Santigold “99 Cents” Fatima Al Qadiri “Brute” Thao & the Get Down Stay Down “A Man Alive” Emmy the Great “Second Love” Damien Jurado “Visions of Us on the Land” M. Ward “More Rain” Keeps “Brief Spirit” Lucy Dacus “No Burden” Heron Oblivion “Heron Oblivion” Read More »
Cage the Elephant, a Kentucky alternative rock band, recently came out with their fourth album titled “Tell Me I’m Pretty.” This new album had a different development process than previous ones because it was produced by Dan Auerbach, of The Black Keys. In this new album, we see how the band has grown musically by adding elements of classic blues ... Read More »
1. Heron Oblivion “Heron Oblivion” 2. Santigold “99 cents” 3. The Jezabels “Synthia” 4. Lucy Dacus ” No Burden” 5. Mothers “When You Walk a Long Distance You Are Tired” 6. Future Elevators “Communicating Vessels” 7. Sound of Ceres “Nostalgia For Infinity” 8. Guerilla Toss “Eraser Stargazer” 9. Teen “Love Yes” 10. So Pitted “Neo” Read More »
“Leave Me Alone” is the debut full-length album from the Madrid-based band Hinds, formerly named Deers. Carlotta Cosials and Ana Perrote on vocals and guitar, Ade Martin on bass, and Amber Grimbergen on drums make up this surf-rock outfit. “Leave Me Alone” is a story of young love and misadventures, with everything from on-again-off-again romance to getting high in a ... Read More »
The Jezabels “Synthia” Mothers “When You Walk a Long Distance You are Tired” Death By Unga Bunga “Pineapple Pizza” Porches “Pool” The Dirty Nil “Higher Power” James Supercave “Better Strange” So Pitted “Neo” Animal Collective “Painting With” Emily Wells “Promise” Teen “Love Yes” Read More »
1. Cold Fronts “Forever Whatever” 2. Deerhunter “Fading Frontier” 3. Made of Oak “Penumbra” 4. Joanna Newsom “Divers” 5. King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard “Paper Mâché Dream Balloon” 6. The Moonlandingz “Expanded EP” 7. Shadow in the Cracks “Shadow in the Cracks” 8. Foxing “Dealer” 9. Sun Club “The Dongo Durango” 10. Half Moon Run “Sun Leads Me On” Read More »
The World Is a Beautiful Place & I Am No Longer Afraid to Die has successfully carved its niche in “emo revival” after six years of demos, splits, EP’s, experimentation and a few style changes. “Harmlessness,” the band’s second studio album, shows the true progression of what used to be “just another emo band.” Members have gained and lost so ... Read More »
1) Saintsencea “Such Things” 2) Chvrches “Every Open Eye 3) Caravan Palace “<|◦_◦|>” 4) Silversun Pickups “Better Nature” 5) Wavves “V” 6) Disclosure “Caracal” 7) The World is a Beautiful Place “Harmlessness” 8) New Order “Music Complete” 9) Protomartyr “The Agent Intellect” 10) City and Colour “If I Should Go Before You” Read More »
Taking its name from the notorious first tragedy by William Shakespeare, punk, indie band, Titus Andronicus wholly augmented Shakespeare’s title into its outfit for its fourth studio album. “The Most Lamentable Tragedy,” released in July 2015, is the most recent and perhaps the most ambitious album by these New Jersey rockers. Much anticipated and seated favorably in the ears of listeners, this ... Read More »
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