Damn Rough Night - Artist Vs Poet
Every great party needs some hip-shaking pop punk songs for the playlist and Artist Vs Poet is chockfull of them. While approaching the release of their full-length LP, Favorite Fix, AVP’s most recent EP, Damn Rough Night, has been gaining some steady play.
The title track, “Damn Rough Night” is undeniably the most dance-worthy of the [...]
Swollen Members - Armed To The Teeth Album Review
If you haven’t heard of this Hip Hop group hailing from Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada yet it’s time to listen up. The Swollen Members just released their latest album Armed To The Teeth, coming three years after their previous album Black Magic. With Armed To The Teeth, Swollen Members deliver an eclectic album that features [...]
Top 10 Greatest 80s Hair Band Heartbreak Songs
When it comes to heartbreak and break up songs, few genres can top 1980s hair bands in terms of sheer brilliance - the original emo if you will. At least ’80s hair bands did their emo with style.By style I mean going shirtless with a leather studded vest, ripped jeans, long blonde hair, a few [...]
Band Interview: Best Coast
You don’t need to experience a California summer to daydream about it; the hazy sunshine, fast cars, surfer boys and beach babes that comprise its iconography are some of the most famous images in the world. And no band provided a soundtrack appropriate to this slice of the American Dream quite like the Beach Boys [...]
Top 10 Greatest Disney Songs
Disney movies are great for many reasons but their songs certainly stand out. It wouldn’t be a true Disney movie without a memorable song. You have only 10 days to read this post before it gets locked in the Disney vault forever - just kidding of course. Please see post not yet written: What the [...]
Top Five Hilarious Sexual Innuendos In Lady GaGa’s Singles
To all the young girls searching for a new scantily clad pop-star to imitate, Lady GaGa must seem like kind of a let-down. Madonna touched herself in a wedding dress, Britney writhed around on-stage with a boa, and Christina wore leather chaps in a boxing ring. Compared to the super sexed-up image of those three, [...]
Florence And The Machine - A Kiss With A Fist
Florence Welch is London’s latest gift to music. With her band, indie pop newcomers Florence and the Machine, Florence released her debut album during Summer 2009. The first single off the album, “A Kiss With A Fist (Is Better Than None)” is a short, hipshaking song that is a great addition to any party playlist.
Despite [...]
Disco Biscuits 11/18/09 4th & B, San Diego, CA
As a now very-casual fan of The Disco Biscuits, I was pretty excited to see them play after a few years hiatus. The Biscuits came down to San Diego as part of their 2009 West-Coast run and played Downtown at 4th & B right across the street from my favorite bar, The Local.
Every other time [...]
Top 10 Indie Rock Bands Only Indie Rock Fans Get
The thing about Indie Rock is…well…it’s just…Indie Rock. All Indie Rock is created differently and Indie Rock is Indie Rock because it’s generally misunderstood by almost everyone except those who love the band - which is an attraction to the genre. There is no middle ground with these Indie Rock bands. You either absolutely love [...]
Band Interview: Automatic Loveletter
If you’ve ever attended the annual two-day Bamboozle music festival in New Jersey, you know the drill: the minute the official schedules come out you sit down with a pen and paper and try to find some way to make it to all the sets of your favorite bands.
Usually, you’re lucky if there’s downtime to [...]
The Streets | Belly Up Tavern, Solana Beach, CA
Belly Up Tavern is continually voted “San Diego’s Best Live Music Venue” by several publications including the Union Tribune, The Reader and San Diego Magazine as well as heralded as one of the hottest clubs on the west coast by Rolling Stone Magazine. All these praises are well deserved. Belly Up’s long history of bringing [...]
Band Interview: Love Like Deloreans
If you’ve gone to bars or parties in Brooklyn you know that sweating profusely is inevitable. It’s so inescapable, in fact, that it probably deserves a ‘which-came-first-the-chicken-or-the-egg’ style debate: did American Apparel derive their scanty designs out of a demand for outfits that could survive these ungodly saunas or did Brooklynites adopt American Apparel uniforms [...]
Ghost-Inspired Songs For Your Indie Rock Halloween Party
This Halloween when you and your fellow Indie Rockers are gathered around some pumpkin spice rum discussing the coolest Aqueduct album art, make sure you have these ghost-inspired songs playing in the background. Any Indie Rock aficionado will certainly appreciate and respect your knowledge in Indie Rock.
You might get lucky and stump a few people [...]
Can You Play Something That Doesn’t Suck?: 25 Songs For Your Indie-Rock Playlist
Indie Rock is not capable of being accurately described due to its eclectic vastness; similar to “web 2.0″. Me and you could both love Indie Rock and each of us could probably name 10 bands that neither one of us has heard of. The best description of Indie Rock I can come up with is: [...]
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