Album A Day: Kings of Leon – Because of the Times

I’ve been trying to avoid playing artists repeatedly on the project, so as to avoid turning the Album A Day into a lovefest for the same six artists, but this album’s been burning a hole in my pocket since I picked it up, so I’m giving it its due spins now. My ongoing love affair [...]

The Cake Is A LIE!!!

Bonus points if you know the reference from whence the post title comes from. But anyway, I’m not gonna do the extra posting i thought I was going to do today. Turns out I’m saving that for a rainy day. And The Killers one, well I just changed my mind there. I promise some quality [...]

Album A Day: The Killers – Day and Age

Afraid I’m going to need a small mulligan on today’s Album A Day. Yes, I’ve listened to the album in its entirety, and this in theory counts as having written about it, but I want to do more when it comes to this album, but now is not a time when I can do so [...]

Papa Roach Evolves Into…Well, Not Much of Anything, Really

The last review in this three days-three reviews set, the new one from Papa Roach, the poorly named Metamorphosis. Before going any further, let me just say this is quite possibly one of the worst album covers I’ve ever seen. It’s not that its ugly, it’s just sloppily put together. It’s like they took a [...]

Album A Day: Dashboard Confessional – The Shade of Poison Trees

This is the album that pretty much cemented my Dashboard fandom. After falling in love with The Places You Have Come To Fear The Most and the spectacular MTV Unplugged album, Chris Carabba took his emo outfit into electric territory. This wasn’t as blasphemous as, say, Dylan doing the same thing, but it caught most [...]

Lily Allen Knows It’s All About You

Lily Allen reminds me of a female version of Pete Wentz. She’s not afraid to actively comment on her celebrity status in her music, and has been known to make trouble with other famous types. That, all on top of the fact that she makes halfway decent music. Her newest release It’s Not Me, It’s [...]

Album A Day: Kanye West – 808s and Heartbreak

Yes, I decided to be that guy on Valentines’ Day. With the other music bloggers offering ideas for radio dedications, mixtapes, etc. I’m gonna help out the single folks by playing up this criminally underappreciated new release by one of the best rappers alive. Much like my thoughts on Lil Wayne, I love Kanye West [...]

Moment of Zen: Requiem For A TV Ad

People watching the Grammys last weekend probably didn’t realize it at the time, but somewhere in there they saw the end of a short-lived era. Something happened during one of the commercial breaks that’s unlikely to occur ever again. So here it is, your moment of Zen: ==TJ==

The Lonely Island Put an Episode of SNL to Music

As my gift to you this weekend, you’re going to get reviews of three brand new albums. These are coming in addition to your regularly scheduled Album A Day. No need to thank me…this is what I’m here for. To start things off, let’s take a look at Incredibad, the album from Saturday Night Live [...]

Album A Day: Tegan and Sara – The Con

Friends and fellow music geeks Alisa and Zack have been bugging me to listen to Tegan and Sara for ages. For some reason before today I had little interest. Today I decided to just give it its due spin. Tegan and Sara are, on the surface, the indie kid’s Veronicas. Those who know me would [...]