Album A Day: Jimmy Eat World – Chase This Light

My original plan for today was to do the Deluxe Version of Bleed American released last year, but I woke up late and have plans at 3, so that kinda got shot down. Instead, I give you the most recent studio set from Jimmy Eat World, the criminally underappreciated Chase This Light. It’s been a [...]

Album A Day: Angels & Airwaves – We Don’t Need To Whisper

On the advice of reader Michael, I decided to follow up yesterday’s post on +44 with a look at the first album from the OTHER post-blink 182 band, Tom DeLonge’s Angels and Airwaves. Tom’s contribution to Blink 182 was his songwriting (especially on the band’s stellar final album), a strength which comes through better than [...]

Album A Day: +44 – When Your Heart Stops Beating

Regarding why I chose this as the day’s album: My external hard drive randomly decided to change it’s location from being the E: drive to the F: drive while I was doing stuff with my new digital camera. After trying to finagle the iTunes XML file to reflect this change with no success, I said [...]

Moment of Zen: Ladies and Gents, I give you Mr. Fred Durst

Back in the days of the old Y100 here in Philly, DJ Matt Cord (now with WMMR) did an interview with Fred Durst of Limp Bizkit shortly after their last hit record Results May Vary came out to middling success. Matt Cord asked some legit questions, Fred Durst was, well, Fred Durst Now, here it [...]

Birthdays For All!!

Oddly enough, ¡Viva La Mainstream! turns 2 today. I’ve never been very good at these kinds of posts, so once again, thanks to the readers who have kept coming back and turned this little side project of mine into something bigger. Year three looks to be the best one yet (and I mean that; not [...]

Album A Day: Linkin Park – Hybrid Theory

I recently read a old review of Linkin Park’s debut album that more or less called them N*Sync with guitars. I then remembered that several years ago my brother (not a fan of the band’s early stuff) made the same comparison and I wanted to throw something at him. Listening to this now, I sort [...]

I’m using this entry to test out a new file upload server. Apparently SaveFile has done something with their accounts that makes it difficult for the mp3s I post to get picked up on sites like the Hype Machine. This is slightly unfortunate, so we’re going to try something new here. OAR – Shattered (Turn [...]

Album A Day: Rise Against – Appeal to Reason

Picked this up on a whim the other night having only heard “Re-Education (Through Labor)”, a song that has been played dozens of times since I first heard it whilst playing the last Guitar Hero game. I’ve found that hardcore bands are usually very tough to get into. I respect the fact that some artists [...]

Album A Day: Nirvana – MTV Unplugged In New York

A couple weeks ago I was shocked to find that this somehow wasn’t part of my CD collection. I had heard it enough times that I felt like it had to be. Luckily a quick trip to Goodies, the local used CD shop took care of that problem. Musically, this is probably the collection least [...]

New Kelly Clarkson Lacks Charisma, Guaranteed to Garner Countless Spins

Clive Davis must have a shit-eating grin on his face right now. “My Life Would Suck Without You”, the new single from Kelly Clarkson is making its way across the internet now. After Clarkson’s last album My December, the first album featuring music and lyrics written by Clarkson was by most accounts a commercial failure, [...]