by snoadmin | Dec 28, 2015 | End of the Year Awards
Courtesy of Merge Records It’s not every day that a band announces that their next album is going to be a rock opera. Sure, they were en vogue in the 70’s and 80’s, ushered in by the Who’s Tommy and Quadrophenia, but the rock opera,...
by snoadmin | Dec 28, 2015 | End of the Year Awards
Courtesy of E-Verse Radio Just like any other weekend, my friends and I were in my beat up Volvo cruising around suburban New Jersey with no destination in mind. The routine was simple: pile the whole friend group in the small sedan, fill up on gas, and turn on WFMU....
by snoadmin | Dec 27, 2015 | End of the Year Awards
Courtesy of Rolling Stone The second record from Philly rock band Hop Along starts with an awakening, with a dream immediately tugged away from consciousness in the early morning. From there it moves discordantly, but assuredly. From story to story, from paradox to...
by snoadmin | Dec 27, 2015 | End of the Year Awards
Courtesy of Genius Beneath the modular synth and electronic string construction of “In Time” lies the girlfriend you don’t want. Like, really don’t want. Maybe you’ve already even broken up with her, but her texts keep coming in, and she shows up...
by snoadmin | Dec 26, 2015 | End of the Year Awards
Courtesy of Wikipedia In the penultimate song of Sometimes I Sit and Think, And Sometimes I Just Sit, Courtney Barnett somewhat climactically claims, “I’m just a reflection of what you want to see, take what you want from meÛ. While that sounds like something...
