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PICKLE JUICE and General Labor Reviewed
November 11, 2024
PICKLE JUICE – Caught In A Lie
Plugging an electric guitar into a large amp and then playing with the rest of the band at a really quick pace will, still get you noticed. People will stop what they’re doing, move closer to the stage and give you some time to wow…
Headways and ALICE ANIMAL Reviewed
October 27, 2024
Headways – Pressure
I hope rock music is around forever and as popular as it was in its glory days. But there ain’t guarantees of that happening. If you just look back at the past and at all of the music genres that were once enormously popular, the odds don’t…
Michael Younker and Running Man Reviewed
October 17, 2024
Michael Younker – Bad News
People who don’t run fast enough from a terrible town that they grew up in, from terrible friends and family, or from an awful job are condemned to be stuck in it for life. It’s only the ones that would prefer to starve, to have nobody…
Halfway Down and Jersey Calling Reviewed
October 2, 2024
Halfway Down – No Time Now
If they stick together for a long time, pop-punk bands spend the first years of their career writing songs about being carefree and reckless and then spend all of the rest of their career writing songs about how they feel sorry for…
All Waffle Trick and Christmas Reviewed
August 19, 2024
All Waffle Trick – Taking the Long Way
Growing up in a phase in which you invested a great amount of energy as a young person isn’t entirely absurd. If you’re not fast enough or don’t have anything good enough going, you may end up like one of the fat guys…
Top 150 Greatest Rock Bands of the 2000s
August 18, 2024
The greatest rock bands of the 2000s were often on the charts, had millions of fans worldwide, and some of them played to stadium crowds. This didn’t happen so long. Yet, in a commercial sense, this was the last stand of rock music for a while.
All of the exposure…
Pretend Collective and Asian Passerby Reviewed
August 15, 2024
Pretend Collective – Children in the Trees
Childhood is the great reservoir from which people drink once they’ve become adults or, in unfortunate scenarios, a source of trouble and anxiety for the remainder of one’s life. Worse still, this is one period in which…
the IV and GROTTONAUT Reviewed
August 2, 2024
the IV – I am the moon, you are the sun
There are plenty of people working hard to reduce music to a bunch of formulas. They argue that what we’re dealing with is pure math. Once you get the algorithm to work right, no secrets ought to be kept from us. It will…
altre di B and Sr. Reviewed
July 14, 2024
altre di B – Big Boi
In “Almost Famous,” one of the definitive movies about the flory and ridiculousness of rock bands, the arena-filling group has just one requirement from the young journalist following them around. They just want him to make them look cool.