The Tough Crowd: mewithoutYou Show Review

Reviews aren’t really my thing. I don’t like ‘em and they always leave me feeling as though the recommendations given through them are arbitrary and useless. That is why this isn’t going to be a real review but more of me reciting a recent...

Rainy Day Music #4: Silent Shout

Last week‰’s Rainy Day Album, Elliott Smith‰’s self-titled second release, was an intimate, acoustic exploration of the human emotions along the grey spectrum. This week‰’s pick, Silent Shout by The Knife, dives even deeper into the human psyche,...

Under the Tide: Boybands, and Then Some

It‰’s the start of Spring break, and for more obvious reasons than one (i.e. ‰ÛÒ temperamental climate) everyone has a legitimate reason to get out of the place we call home for the four years or so. Spring break brings along images of beaches, red skin, warm...

Feedback: Tone Deaf

Young and scrounging through message boards and libraries, a first attempt to find interesting modern Chinese bands did not yield me much. I had an interest in the country for a long time, but never pressed on the music much. When I did, I only turned up some world...
Real Estate ‰ÛÒ Atlas (Domino)

Real Estate ‰ÛÒ Atlas (Domino)

WOOOOO The first twenty seconds of Atlas makes it seem as if the clouds are parting and a ray of sun is shining down as the long awaited three years since the release of Days, has finally come to an end. In “Had to Hear,‰” Martin Courtney begins with a simple and...