by snoadmin | Dec 27, 2011 | Archives-old
A$AP Rocky – LIVELOVEA$AP As 2011 comes to an end, 2012 should be ushered in with the clanking of wine bottles, half-witted New Year’s Resolutions and a long overdue moratorium on the word “swag.” If not for the word’s blatant overuse, the...
by snoadmin | Dec 26, 2011 | End of the Year Awards
#8 Album: Fucked Up – David Comes to Life There is hardly any aspect about the band Fucked Up that isn’t in some way polarizing or complicatedly multifaceted. Citing dysfunction as a source of their namesake, you can understand how seemingly...
by snoadmin | Dec 26, 2011 | Archives-old
Colin Stetson – New History Warfare Vol. 2: Judges Think of everything you believe a saxophone to be capable of. Over the course of the 45-minute New History Warface Vol. 2: Judges, Bon Iver/Arcade Fire associate Colin Stetson burns those notions to the ground...
by snoadmin | Dec 25, 2011 | Archives-old
Real Estate – Days For a genre teeming with pale, skinny, upper-middle-class dudes, its surprising that an indie group didn’t deliver The Suburbs much earlier. But while Arcade Fire drenched its Grammy award-winning semi-autobiographical album in weirdly...
by snoadmin | Dec 25, 2011 | End of the Year Awards
#9 Album: Dum Dum Girls – Only In Dreams Churning out beach-washed riot girl anthems, the Dum Dum Girls have given 2011 Only In Dreams, an album that isn’t afraid to express innermost female laments while simultaneously becoming a gut-punching rock gem....
