This Providence – Who Are You Now?Release Date: 03/17/2009Fueled By RamenRating: 2/5 Who Are You Now? is the 3rd studio release from Seattle based pop-rock quintet This Providence. The disc is a notable landmark in their six year career, which consists of two previously released albums and one EP that garnered polarized attention for their [...]

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Kevin Devine – Brothers BloodRelease Date: 4/28/09Favorite Gentlemen RecordingsRating: 4/5 Brother’s Blood is the fifth release by New York based singer/songwriter Kevin Devine. It could very well be the best album he’s made in his career. Brother’s Blood uses subject matter that is familiar to Devine’s back catalog, touching on topics from substance abuse and [...]

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Metric – FantasiesRelease Date: 04/07/2009Independent Release (US)Rating: 4/5 Metric is back with their first full-length release since 2005′s “Live it Out.” In between the 4 year span of relative inactivity as a band, front woman Emily Haines has gone on to release two solo-efforts and has returned for Metric’s 3rd full-length on the top of [...]

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Yeah Yeah Yeah’s – It’s Blitz!Release Date: 03/31/2009Interscope RecordsRating: 3.5/5 If this album played without Karen O’s vocals, it would be virtually impossible to tell that this was the Yeah Yeah Yeah’s. Gone is the dirty simplistic riffage of Nick Zinner that was once one of the Yeah Yeah Yeah’s distinguishing trademarks. Once stripped down [...]

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Right Away, Great Captain! The Eventually HomeFavorite Gentlemen Recordings4.5 / 5 Right Away, Great Captain, the brain child of Manchester Orchestra frontman Andy Hull, returns with his second installment in a trilogy of conceptual albums. Each album is a collection of journal entries detailing a sailor’s journey through madness and despair after finding his wife [...]

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Lately, I’ve been trying to enjoy and review the remaining releases of the 2008. I’ve also been trying my best to decide what will be on my “best of 08″ list (currently in progress here). I just barely finished this little write-up on Forgive Durden’s “musical” Razia’s Shadow, which if released any other year, probably [...]

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Following up on my previous post on La Dispute, heres a little blurb I wrote on their latest release “Somewhere at the Bottom of the River…” This could very well be the best thing to come out this year, and that’s definitely saying something: 5/5 “Somewhere at the Bottom of the River Between Vega and [...]

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Heres a short little review a wrote for Portugal. The Man’s newest release Censored Colors: 3.5/5Portugal. The Man’s 3rd full length in 3 years is a mixed bag of sorts. The band have taken a completely new direction from the riff-rock based Church Mouth to a more acoustic/soft psychedelic rock sound. The sound works perfectly [...]

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****4/5 stars When Lost in the Sound of Separation was announced, I was ecstatic. The hype surrounding it made it sound like the saviors of metalcore were once again coming to redefine and perfect the genre that was (and unfortunately, still is) in need of a revolution. Pre-release reviews of the album told us that [...]

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