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Sonic Youth / Yeah Yeah Yeahs : McCarren Pool, Brooklyn NY 8/12/2006

Shawn Donohue August 18, 2006 No Comments

It is amazing that a band playing together since 1981 can still manage to play with such grace and fire, fresh songs alongside classics, with everything working out so seamlessly. Hopefully the Yeah Yeah Yeahs can reach that point someday. But if they needed any guidance, all they had to do was open their ears to one of the best bands of the last quarter century playing beside them.

Taking Back Sunday – Louder Now

Andrew Bruss August 2, 2006 No Comments

Taking Back Sunday’s aggressive touring schedule has earned them an increasingly large group of Converse clad soldiers in the emo/punk/pop army. While their stakes gradually rise, so do their standards amongst a demanding mainstream audience.

Henry Rollins: Talk Is Cheap (INTERVIEW)

Jason Keil May 24, 2006 No Comments

Vocalist. Songwriter. Poet. Author. Actor. Talk-show host?
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Arctic Monkeys: Empress Ballroom, Blackpool, U.K.

Michael Jones May 11, 2006 No Comments

By the time these boys are rounding off the night my mind is made up. Believe the hype!! (well some of it)

The Pogues…In NYC…On St. Patrick’s Day

Shawn Donohue March 30, 2006 No Comments

I never once thought that the kings of Irish punk/folk would regroup and play America, let alone in a place and time when I could see them. The last time I caught the whiskey bottle of a singer known as Shane MacGowan live, he was a bloody mess from falling down and being dragged off stage only 3 songs into his set with the Popes.

Jarboe: The Men Album

Eric Saeger March 28, 2006 No Comments

In this mystery meat pot-roast of goth-industrial-futurepop sub-Bjorkings, Ex-Swan Jarboe presents the most hiply presentable slices of her life over the past six years

Hard-Fi: Career Opportunities (Ross Phillips Interview)

Glen Levy March 27, 2006 No Comments

With their latest single “Cash Machine” hitting the charts and Stars Of CCTV in stores, Hard-Fi are on their way to grabbing some heat from The Arctic Monkeys, while rekindling the triumphant spirit and sound of The Clash.

Lilys: Everything Wrong Is Imaginary

Eric Saeger March 15, 2006 No Comments

Finally an alt record that takes all the Franz Ferdinand Mini-Mes by the neck, rubs their faces in the lackluster heaps of discordant doodie they

The Trews: Den of Thieves

Jason Macneil March 13, 2006 No Comments

As if the Crowes comparison wasn’t suitable, just take a listen to the swampy “Cry” that would give Chris and Rich Robinson a run for their money circa The Southern Harmony And Musical Companion.

Wolves In The Throne Room: Diadem of 12 Stars

Eric Saeger March 9, 2006 No Comments

Pentagram-festooned albums have been pouring out of the sky ever since Venom singer Cronos proved to the world that even a knob who pretends to worship Satan can get studio time (and maybe more, dude, nudge nudge nudge) with a painfully hot babe like Kate Bush.