Deadmau5 Random Album Title   By: Nick Habisch Rating:   Deadmau5, as producer Joel Zimmerman is known to many in the electronic music circle, is an enigma as he is an artist. Able to craft catchy, easily digestible music that ranges from dubstep influence to trance, all entrenched firmly in the realm of house. 4X4=12 found Deadmau5 solely on the dance floor, For Lack of A Better Name saw progressive house take suit, but the...

Lights Siberia By: Nick Habisch   Rating:   Lights’ first full album, 2009’s The Listening saw her being compared to Owl City and other solo electronic acts. While that album was generally well received, there were still questions of whether she would evolve from the cotton candy electro-pop present on The Listening. With her 2011 release, entitled Siberia, Lights throws some grit and muscle into her electronic sounds, and...

Oh, Sleeper Children of Fire By: Nick Habisch   Rating:   Oh, Sleeper have always been a band of unrealized potential. The musical talent is there, the lyrics are strong, the mindset is solid, there’s just always been something missing. Now on their third album, the question is whether Oh, Sleeper can finally distinguish themselves as something more then Underoath mixed with Thrice. Children of Fire, the band’s latest...

The Birthday Massacre Walking With Strangers By: Nick Habisch Rating: What makes up a catchy song? As much of a rhetorical question this might be, it is one that generates a multitude of different answers from different people. It might be a guitar line that strikes just right or a vocal melody that melts the heart. There might be a strict formula that a band follows, or it might just be a case of luck. No matter the case, there is...

Animal Collective Merriweather Post Pavilion By: Nick Habisch   Rating: If there’s an album that I could personally point to as a sort of musical epiphany it would have to be Animal Collective’s Merriweather Post Pavilion. Two years ago I stood in a Best Buy, holding the green and purple colored album in my hands, wondering if it was worth a gander based off of all the Internet hype. I relented to the craze and purchased the...