Album Reviews
Album Review
Anthematic British Rock with huge choruses, led by female vocals. The Big Roar could be one of the most aptly named albums ever. The Big Roar is the first full length album from British band The Joy Formidable. The band has been releasing music since 2008 and in 2009 played a couple of sold [...]
The Submarines: Music for a Sunny Day. Love Notes/Letter Bombs, the third full-length album from indie pop duo John Dragonetti and Blake Hazard, known collectively as The Submarines, is not usually my cup of tea. It’s bright and sunny with infectious hooks and sing-along choruses. I usually prefer my music a little on the darker [...]
By: Kurt Rambis Not too many years ago, a show pulled into the New Brookland Tavern to little fanfare. I think that All Good Citizens had more promotion whenever they played. Headlining the bill was moderately buzzing Blitzen Trapper who had just signed to Sub Pop. Opening up for them was a young band that [...]
Growing up in Charleston, I feel like Leslie is a band that’s always been around. I’ve seen them countless times all over South Carolina (and now Tennessee). Their live show is packed with way more energy than you would expect from just a three-piece band. After loads of touring, most recently with acts including The [...]
Alison Mosshart is better known these days as the man-eating sidekick to Jack White in The Dead Weather than her band The Kills. On Blood Pressures she has the same swagger that she carried on Sea of Cowards and proves that she doesn’t need Jack White by her side to make an intensely modern blues [...]
April 12 The Evening Muse Charlotte, NC with Slow Runner William Fitzsimmons is known for writing completely honest and fragile songs that are often some of the most depressing things you’ve ever heard. At times he might sing words that you want to relate to, but you don’t feel like you can because it wouldn’t [...]
Always In Style There is a familiar expression, “If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it.” The Dropkick Murphys very much adhere to this old adage on their seventh studio album, Going Out In Style, a follow-up to 2007’s The Meanest of Times. The Massachusetts septet delivers their usual brand of raucous celtic-fried rock n roll [...]
Lykke Li-Get Some Oh, Lykke Li. Let me list the reasons I love you. You’re pretty. Your last record was a jam. Multiple dope remixes were released from those tracks. You appeared on N.A.S.A.’s record, The Spirit of Apollo, and killed it. Tyler, the Creator did a sick remix of “I Follow Rivers”. You asked [...]
Download Today Sequoyah-Do What I Do It seems as if Sequoyah has finally come into their own as a band. Spells is the album that they have been waiting to make for the better part of the last decade. After all the hype and the touring from the “make or break” album which was Ghost [...]
Release March 8th On R.E.M.’s last album Accelerate, released nearly three years ago, they blazed through 11 songs, some of those barely breaking two minutes. Accelerate showed that even at their age they could still rock with the best of them. On their new album, Collapse Into Now, they’ve found a way to pull all [...]
If you’ve been to our website or follow us on social networks you’ve probably seen the name Jessica Lea Mayfield. She’s quickly become one of our favorite artists. When I received her new album in the mail, I put it in and instantly knew I was going to to like her. I ended up downloading [...]
If you happen to pick up Sam Beam, South Carolina’s golden bearded child’s new album expecting something to listen to as your cry yourself to sleep in a state of self pity, you are going to be disappointed. Beam switched his style up slightly in his 2007 release, The Shepard’s Dog, with the addition of [...]
Party with the Queen Jack White strikes again. Coming off another busy year touring and recording with his Southern gothic blues outfit, The Dead Weather, the prolific rock n roller sets his sights on resurrecting the “Queen of Rockabilly,” Wanda Jackson. At 73, “Queen of Rockabilly,” Wanda Jackson still retains the smoldering fire that characterized [...]
It’s been seven years since Cake released a new album, but from the opening track on Showroom of Compassion they show that they still have what it takes to make a statement. The new album, recorded on 100% solar power, opens with their signature low end guitars, half sung lyrics and keyboard tones. While their [...]
We are separating our top 10 albums list into two categories this year, EP’s and full lengths. There were simply too many releases to try and combine them and compare them and rank them fairly. We’ve gone through about 15 different versions of this top 10 list, scratching through and re-ranking them. We’re happy with [...]
