Album A Day: Kevin Rudolf – In The City

For some reason I tend to balk at playing albums that have a hit on the charts. On the one hand its kind of a cop-out, like I was already planning to play this album for the sake of the single, so give something else a spin. Plus, there’re countless other albums that have proven [...]

Album A Day: Collective Soul – Afterwords

It’s a little strange that this is the only Collective Soul album I have, apart from their greatest hits album. Out of all of their albums and their hit-laden career, their most recent record spawned a tiny hit in “Hollywood” and strays away from the post-grunge rock that made Collective Soul ubiquitous in the mid [...]

Franz Ferdinand Take the Town By Storm Tonight

Franz Ferdinand, without a doubt the greatest band named for an assassinated world leader, dropped their third album, Tonight: Franz Ferdinand earlier this year. The Scottish alternative rock band take a turn toward catchy dancepop on their new album, aiming to create a soundtrack for a night of partying into the morning. While Franz Ferdinand’s [...]

Album A Day: Jesus Christ Superstar: 1996 London Cast Recording

Happy *insert appropriate holiday of choice here*, everyone! Fun fact: The Keswick Theatre a couple blocks from my school does an annual performance of Jesus Christ Superstar every Easter Sunday. I’ve never actualy gone to said performance, because I have a biased opnion that the performance that Ridley High School’s Drama Group did back in [...]

Album A Day: Goo Goo Dolls – Let Love In

After an energetic, forceful record in Gutterflower, in which Johnny Rzeznik let loose on divorce, lost love, and general frustration, The Goo Goo Dolls switched gears and recorded their brightest album to date, and in general an unusually uplifting album in comparison with their peers. One of the biggest challenges in writing a bright, cheerful [...]

Moment of Zen: Just Like Ronnie Said…

This one goes out to my castmates in “Beyond Therapy”. Here it is, your Moment Of Zen: Eddie Money – Take Me Home Tonight [iTunes] (YSI) ==TJ==

Album A Day: The Smashing Pumpkins – Siamese Dream

Did I miss some memo at some point in the recent past that outlined why people like The Smashing Pumpkins? Becuase even though I listen to them and keep giving them chances to impress me, I still haven’t been able to figure out what the appeal is. Listening to Siamese Dream today was my latest [...]

Album A Day: Buckcherry – Black Butterfly

Usually the follow-up to a smash hit of an album isn’t a very comfortable affair. There’s tremendous pressure to live up to the success of the first album, which ends up translating into trying to hard and a less enjoyable record. Someone forgot to tell Buckcherry that. After landing 3 hit singles on their third [...]

Album A Day: Ne-Yo – Year of the Gentleman

Year of the Gentleman found itself on the Top 10 lists of many a blogger (mostly the ones who didn’t spend all their time fellating Fleet Foxes and Bon Iver), it was nominated for Album of the Year (where it lost on the grounds that Ne-Yo is below the age of 50), and I only [...]

Royksopp Simultaneously Fulfill and Break My Impression of Techno

If you were to challenge me to review an album from a genre about which I couldn’t possibly know or care less about, you’d do well to hand me some Eastern European techno. My general impression of that style of music has led me to believe it’s not exactly my thing. But with a yearlong [...]