It’s really hard to follow up a fantastic first album, but New York-based electronic pop rockers Young Love managed to hit another home run with its sophomore release, One of Us. Every part of the new LP is catchy and designed to make you want to throw a strobe light party in your living room. Of...

The new, long-awaited Phoenix record comes out today (tomorrow for us US buyers), and the buzz sure is high for this one. Long time Phoenix fans as well newcomers are expected to be blown away by Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix, the fourth studio album of the bands career.  Songs from the new record including...

You can catch Meg & Dia on this year’s Warped Tour, and you should.  Meg & Dia are no strangers to the Tour, but this year promises to give fans something new, yet equally exciting.  There will be songs from their new record, Here, Here and Here, which came out April 21st on Warner Brothers...

The only sad thing about finding out about amazing bands from other continents is just that, they are from other continents.  They tend to not make it out to your side of the map often.  Scottish rockers Flood of Red however, have already blown away crowds in a grip of countries far from their own,...

Bust out the defibrillators, everyone; rock newbies, Shock Stars, are selling out shows in the Midwest and putting fans into cardiac arrest in the process. Or at least their album name, cover artwork, song titles, and hospitular lyrics would have you believe as much. You’re right: hospitular isn’t...

The first time I saw Ghostland Observatory, I had no idea what to expect. I’d never heard them before, and trying to get a reliable description of their music was like hearing several witnesses describe Bigfoot Sightings - I knew they were talking about something huge, but no two descriptions...

It may be premature to say, since it’s only May, but Whole Wheat Bread’s sophomore full-length Hearts of Hoodlums just might be the best punk album of 2009. Hearts of Hoodlums streamlines all of the pop-punk of Whole Wheat Bread’s 2005 debut Minority Rules and the crunk-rock fusion of their 2006...

In the age of online singles, Robotique feels like an album. The album narrates like a science fiction odyssey with ghostly distortions and digital landscape. Yet it still manages to appeal with unabashed dance pop.The band reels between power riffs and electronic beats that sound like they came from...

Anyone who ever feels like complaining about the current music scene should give The Gaslight Anthem a couple of spins. If my faith in the current state of independent music ever needed renewing, The Gaslight Anthem sure did the thing. The best way I could describe them is Springsteen meets Tiger Army....

If you take a look at the Vans Warped Tour roster from a decade ago and compare it to the lineup this year, you can clearly see the extent of the  evolution of this awesome music festival. In fact, I’ll probably compare it to that chart my Biology teacher had in 10th grade in a future post. But...