Sunny energetic surf punkRatworld is a super upbeat album that combines the spirit of new lo-fi slacker West Coast rock with fuzzy 90s pop rock; an infectious combination given an original edge by Leeds' Menace Beach. The album skillfully combines pointed, distorted...
Emo beats bringing back feels You Blew It! kicks off 2015 much like they did the past year- with a breathtaking release. The Florida emo band decided to pour a year of angst into their latest 7Û, Pioneer of Nothing. The three song release makes use of wiry vocals,...
Courtesy of BuddyTV. Have you ever wanted a long, illustrious singing career spanning well over a decade? Do you want to fade out of Pop Culture's consciousness only to reinvent yourself several years later? Luckily for you, I've created an easy-to-follow guide...
Courtesy of Miami New Times. Reggeaton has its roots in Latin America, mainly Panama, and the Caribbean as it infuses aspects of salsa, bomba, Jamaican dancehall and Trinidadian soca. What pushed its boundaries were the Puerto Rican artists who added vocals,...
Courtesy of Absolutely Kosher. Okay is a collection of earworms that could only be creations of Marty Anderson's questionably sane brain and tortured body. After turning minds inside out with Dilute's cosmic blizzards that took spider web...
Courtesy of Newbury Comics. I think we can all agree that we all have one song that is objectively quite awful. You either cannot stop listening to a new, unoriginal pop song or, in my case, one song that is clearly the worst song on an album but...
“A pope is a fraud / A church is a lie / A queen is the same damn thing / You should pray to your fake god that she dieÛ Attention citizens, this is not your normal aggression. Or maybe it is, just fitted with new words twice as hyperbolic. Is this the kind...
The Store: Up until last week I had never been to a record fair, so since this column is challenging me to explore different record purchasing options, I decided to attend this weekend's fair at Penn Social. For the purposes of this challenge, and its...
Courtesy of Baltimore Arts. In a city that's known for its distinctive, tough nature, it's no wonder Philadelphia has such a rich history of punk music. It was in the late 1970s when punk and new wave music had begun to sweep through the city and take it...
Courtesy of Pop Dust. John Legend's “All of Me” placed third in Billboard's Hot 100 in 2014. “Stay with Me” by Sam Smith was number 10 and A Great Big World's “Say Something” made it into the top 20. Although a huge number of Sad Pop didn't make it...