New Look at Paramore’s Brand New Eyes

Paramore releases their third studio album brand new eyes on September 29. If you didn’t know, I’m kind of stoked for this one. So when a clip of the band’s performance on MTV Unplugged popped up in the last couple days, again, it got me a little excited. Below is a live acoustic performance of [...]

Album A Day: Ronnie Day – The Album

Artist: Ronnie Day Album: The Album Release Date: November 14, 2006 I mentioned Ronnie Day way, way back when I first brought up that “15 Life Changing Albums” meme. The short version of the story is that the dude is my age, released an album at age 20, got dropped by his label, and now [...]

Album A Day: Counting Crows: Recovering the Satellites

Artist: Counting Crows Album: Recovering the Satellites Release Date: October 14, 1996 So I’m pretty sure that the rules I set up back in January would say that I’ve now broken the nearly nine-month streak of Album A Day posts and that the project is more or less done now since I theoretically missed two [...]

Album A Day: Nirvana – Hormoaning

Artist: Nirvana Album: Hormoaning Release Date: February 5, 1992 I would love to be able to tell you all about this Nirvana collection of B-sides released in time for the band’s world tour after Nevermind took off, but I’m sneaking this little blogging break in between sessions I’m not required to attend. So this is [...]

Album A Day: Coldplay – A Rush of Blood to the Head

Artist: Coldplay Album: A Rush of Blood to the Head Release Date: August 27, 2002 In just about 8 hours somewhere between 500 and 800 (no one’s quite sure of the exact number) new college students are going to finish a journey of varying distances and lengths from their old lives to their lives as [...]

Album A Day: Kings of Leon – Holy Roller Novocaine

Artist: Kings of Leon Album: Holy Roller Novocaine Release Date: February 18, 2003 Yeah, remember when I said the other night that posting was going to be sporadic for the next several days? Yeah, this was what I meant. Taking a small mulligan on today, and I shall be back soon. Kings of Leon – [...]

Album A Day: Jimmy Eat World – Stay on My Side Tonight EP

Artist: Jimmy Eat World Album: Stay On My Side Tonight EP Release Date: October 4, 2005 So if you read my Twitter updates, you saw last night that I explained that posting was going to be sporadic for the next week or so. I just moved back into my apartment for the semester, and for [...]

Album A Day: Muse – Absolution

Artist: Muse Album: Absolution Release Date: September 21, 2003 (UK); March 23, 2004 (US) I mentioned back when I posted one of the new songs from Muse’s next album (The Resistance, out September 15) that the more I’ve heard from Muse, the more I’ve liked them and wanted to hear. After finally sitting down and [...]

Album A Day: Death Cab for Cutie – Transatlanticism

Artist: Death Cab for Cutie Album: Transatlanticism Release Date: October 7, 2003 Every time I listen to Death Cab for Cutie, I feel like I should like them far more than my play counts and iPod would indicate I do. I have most of their catalog, thanks to a friend who was appalled that my [...]

The Used’s Artwork…well…um…Isn’t

I was excited when I was first presented with an opportunity to review an advance copy of Artwork by The Used. Early buzz on the album was positive and I’ll never turn down a chance to review a major release. But the fourth studio album by the Utah punk quartet is an unfortunate mishmash of [...]