This Time Next Year – Drop Out Of Life Rating: Simple, enjoyable pop-punk. No matter how many times I’ve tried, I have almost never enjoyed pop-punk music. I often find that pop-punk albums are either too sketchy, or the complete opposite, so overproduced and glossy that it has little lasting impact. Likewise, I find their singers to either be to awful, or to have too squeaky clean vocals to merit listening. I’m pretty picky...

                                            New York Rivals           By: Lisa                           Rating: “I’m a sinner at my best cause there aint no time to rest” On August 29, 2011 the future of four local New York boys forever changed; it was that day that the New York rivals were born.  Now less than three months later this band is taking the alternative...

Angelspit – Hello My Name Is Rating: “For what we are about to do, may the Lord make us truly spiteful…” Angelspit are a very noisy band. From the very beginning, they relied on the shock factor, creating wave after wave of sonic explosions, all the while dressing up as demonic entities. The premise was simple: have a girl (Destroyx) and guy (Zoog) shouting on the top of their lungs through vocoders in freaky...

t.A.T.u – 200 Km/h in the Wrong Lane Rating: Any way you slice it, 200 Km/h in the Wrong Lane is a classic pop album. There are a lot of pop artists/groups/albums that I absolutely hate. My scars began in childhood, when a certain girl suddenly fell in love with Spice Girls and ‘N Sync. I had never heard their music before, but I knew enough already because of all the things she said: “Justin is soooo hot!”, “Little Spice has...

Myrath – Tales of the Sands Rating: To prog, or not to prog. Myrath has always been a unique force in progressive metal, and for good reason. You see, they hail from Tunisia, a place not known for its notable metal artists. They have proved to be an exception, however, and have cemented themselves as one of the greater prog metal bands of our time. It isn’t just that their songs are exceptionally well thought out (which they...

  The Horrible Crowes Elsie By: Andy Hanson   Rating: The Gaslight Anthem front-man Brian Fallon is 31 years old. On the surface this is an arbitrary fact that transforms into extreme relevance once the sheer essence of this man is analyzed. Fallon is still young in body and like so many of his heroes his spirit is constantly longing for that ever fleeting concept of youth, but the overpowering sincerity in which his gravelly...