Friday, November 14, 2008
Loma Prieta - Last City (2008)
Screamo / Hardcore / Prog-Punk
San Francisco screamo act Loma Prieta rub elbows with prog, but it’s mostly overshadowed by standard overdoses of sub-grindcore screaming.
Wednesday, November 5, 2008
Enter Shikari - “We Can Breathe In Space, They Just Don’t Want Us To Escape” [SINGLE]
Metal / Hardcore / Trance Electronica
Fun one-off single from British “Nintendocore” rockers Enter Shikari is pure, off-your-ADHD-medication energetic fun, with lyrics scraping at the place of humanity in the cosmos. End result: you, dancing in your chair like Gary Brolsma.
Wednesday, October 22, 2008
Rise Against - Appeal to Reason (2008)
Hardcore Punk / Punk Revival / Melodic Hardcore
Rise Against’s stripped-down, bare essentials, roots-of-punk simplicity accounts for most of their charm, but it’s also their undoing in places.
Friday, September 19, 2008
Eyes Set to Kill - Reach (2008)
Metalcore / Pop / Rock
Eyes Set to Kill’s thick-headed riffs, breathy, dramatic vocals, and gothy lyricism are nothing new to anyone who’s heard a Paramore song. “Listen to all of this glass shatter/ It pierced my ears and made them bleed.”
Tuesday, September 9, 2008
Alesana - Where Myth Fades to Legend (2008)
This Is Usually The Part Where People Whine
- This Is Usually The Part Where People Scream
- Goodbye, Goodnight, For Good
- Seduction
- A Most Profound Quiet
- Red And Dying Evening
- Better Luck Next Time, Prince Charming
- The Uninvited Thirteenth
- Sweetheart, You Are Sadly Mistaken
- And They Call This Tragedy
- All Night Dance Parties In The Underground Palace
- Endings Without Stories
- As You Wish
- Obsessions Is Such An Ugly Word
Tuesday, August 19, 2008
Dance Gavin Dance - Dance Gavin Dance (2008)
That’s no moon…
Alex English
Buffalo!
Me and Zoloft Get Along Fine
The Robot With Human Hair Pt. 3
Hot Water On Wool
Hot Water On Wool (Reprise)
Uneasy Hearts Weigh The Most (feat. Nic Newsham)
Caviar (feat. Chino Moreno)
Rock Solid (feat. Matt Geise)
Burning Down the Nicotine Armoire Pt. 2
Reprogramming Mental Preprogramming
Skyhook
People You Know
They say never judge a book (or by extension, an [...]
Friday, May 30, 2008
From First to Last - From First to Last (2008)
Hallelujah, the whining is gone.
Monday, August 27, 2007
Emanuel - Black Earth Tiger (2007)
Fang Shui
Whiteflag (intro)
Cottonmouth
Anathamatics
My Antapex
Scenotaph
Phobos
Abandonment Star
Let Them Die
Year of the Pig
Forever
Whiteflag (Reprise)
With a title variously described as sounding like a Mortal Kombat finishing move, a pose Jet Li might strike, or a post-apocalyptic robot terminator shaped like a feral cat, the press kit for “Black Earth Tiger” stresses one thing above all others: this ain’t your [...]
Monday, November 20, 2006
Fear Before the March of Flames - The Always Open Mouth (2006)
Fishing for hooks for always open ears
Absolute Future
Drowning The Old Hag
Mouth
Taking Cassandra to the End of the World Party
Ten Seconds In Los Angeles
The Waiting Makes Me Curious
High As A Horse
Dog Sized Bird
Complete and Utter Confusion…
…As a Result of Signals Being Crossed
My (Fucking) Deer Hunter
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Thursday, November 2, 2006
Rise Against - The Sufferer and the Witness (2006)
Siren song of the counter-counterculture.
Chamber The Cartridge
Injection
Ready To Fall
Bricks
Under The Knife
Prayer of the Refugee
Drones
The Approaching Curve
Worth Dying For
Behind Closed Doors
Roadside
The Good Left Undone
Survive
Up on top, it’s nothing but gold teeth, big cars and big butts; trolling in the underground, you meet a [...]
