By Erik Myers
0.7 (out of 1)
About 30 years after dirty penniless teenagers gathered in San Francisco to celebrate love, a similarly scrappy Brandon Welchez and Charles Rowell sat down in San Diego to celebrate cynicism, a characteristic common among their recession-smacked generation. “I was born into this life to a drunk father and rented wife,” [...]

Dragonslayer keeps the show going, but before the mid-point is even reached, one can’t help but gaze longingly at their clock and hope the end isn’t too far off.

By James “Jaime the LaTn LuVr” Lopez

Before I start this review, I would like to point out that the Silversun Pickups are NOT the smashing pumpkins, nor do they have any members, relationships and/or clones in their band from the Smashing Pumpkins. With that being said, Swoon, Silversun Pickups sophomore album is going to be [...]

A Mega-review by Justin Weber
 
Albums covered:
Middle Cyclone by Neko Case
Hold Time by M. Ward
Little Hells by Marissa Nadler
Beware by Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy
Self titled by Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit
 

By James “Jaime the LaTn LuVr” Lopez
Critically Acclaimed Everything Absent or Distorted have finally released their second album, The Great Collapse, this week. High expectations were set in place for this bands sophomore release. Their first album, the Soft Civil War, debuted in the top 100 of CMJ (College Version of the Billboards) and [...]