It seemed like just yesterday that the world couldn’t get enough of Eve Jeffers, the lone lioness from the Ruff Ryders camp who’s lyrical prowess never seemed to get the attention it fully deserved. It’s [...]
Vampire Weekend’s third offering, Modern Vampires of the City, experiments with pitch-shifting, recording onto tape and even a spectrum analyzer. The 43-minute tour-de-spirituality was made with the ethos: ‘if it sounds familiar, throw it out’. Outside of [...]
She & Him are nothing if not an aesthetic wonder – before lyricist and frontwoman Zooey Deschanel was Fox’s “New Girl,” she was still a full-time “manic pixie dream girl” in just about every previous [...]
It seems unfathomable now that at one point the band whose last lead single was a trance-pop cover version of the Dirty Dancing theme were being touted as the natural successors to De La Soul [...]
Phoenix may have been around since 1999, but it wasn’t until their 2009 breakthrough Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix that ubiquitous indie-pop tracks like “1901” (aka the “Falling” song no one could avoid hearing) became household ear-worms. A [...]
It takes cojones to claim you’re “saving rock and roll.” After blasting into the mainstream with 2005′s campy yet undeniably catchy emo-pop-rock single “Sugar We’re Goin’ Down,” Fall Out Boy have flirted with various un-rock forms of [...]
Paramore have had quite an intense career trajectory. Becoming platinum-selling juggernauts as teenagers unsurprisingly resulted in inner turmoil that pushed founding members Zac and Josh Farro to quit in 2010. Inspired by this departure, their [...]
Alkaline Trio has always been on the outskirts of the post-hardcore/emo/pop-punk scene. While their Jimmy Eat World-ly 2003 breakthrough Good Mourning hit heavy radio rotation, and the lovesick heroin metaphor This Addiction topped US charts, [...]
Once regarded as the butt of the boyband joke, New Kids On The Block surpassed the rather lowly expectations when their 2008 reunion didn’t turn out to be a total shambles. Indeed, considering their naff [...]
Very rarely do sequels ever live up to any applicable hype. But when the bar is set so low, it’s not a difficult task. I Am Not a Human Being II is a lackluster effort, [...]
