Album A Day: Velvet Revolver – Libertad

Artist: Velvet Revolver
Album: Libertad
Release Date: July 3, 2007
I hate to do this to you guys, but I need a mulligan on tonight. Been a busy day between work, classes and trying to fight off illness. I promise to cook up some quality stuff tomorrow, but tonight’s a bit of a day off for me.
Velvet Revolver [...]

Album A Day: Fort Minor – The Rising Tied

Artist: Fort Minor
Album: The Rising Tied
Release Date: November 22, 2005
I’ve said a couple times that Mike Shinoda was the brains behind Linkin Park, but Chester was the reason they sold records. On the debut of Shinoda’s side project Fort Minor, that fact is never clearer. Not only does The Rising Tied, Shinoda’s first full-blown foray [...]

Tuesday Night Roundup: Bands You Don’t Know…Yet…

Tonight’s Tuesday Night Roundup is dedicated to a few bands that sent me samples of their music, and have proven themselves awesome enough to warrant my attention as well as yours. So once you’re done hearing me rave about them, do go check out their MySpaces, facebooks, etc. and support some new worthy music.
First up [...]

Paramore’s brand new eyes Have Everyone Seeing Gold

Few bands on the brink of breaking up amidst the unholy trio of infighting, ego, and a lengthy tour schedule make it back from that edge; greater bands than Paramore didn’t make it (see: the Police, Blink 182, among countless others). But Paramore’s third studio album brand new eyes is an emotional chronicling of the [...]

Album A Day: Pearl Jam – Yield

Artist: Pearl Jam
Album: Yield
Release Date: February 3, 1998
Yield is, in my mind, the quintessential Pearl Jam album. I feel like it encapsulates the band’s sound, ferocity, and general kickassitude in one complete package. I don’t mean to suggest that it is the band’s best album; I think that honor will always belong to Ten [...]

Album A Day: Pink Floyd – Wish You Were Here

Artist: Pink Floyd
Album: Wish You Were Here
Release Date: September 12, 1975
As a general rule when a band member leaves the rest of his group, it tends to be under less than happy terms (even when the press releases suggest no hard feelings). So the notion of Pink Floyd releasing Wish You Were Here, [...]

Album A Day: The Dresden Dolls – Yes, Virginia…

Hey folks, TJ here again. I’m taking a mini-vacation from blogging so I can catch up on listening, thus giving you newer, fresher music to get excited about. To help me in this matter, I’ve enlisted music nut, fellow Arcadian and brilliant writer Peter Medeiros to present his thoughts on a favorite album by one [...]

Album A Day, The Second: Candlebox – Candlebox

Artist: Candlebox
Album: Candlebox
Release Date: July 20, 1993
So this isn’t really so much about the album, since Candlebox’s debut album is fairly forgettable, but rather it’s about one song, and said song isn’t even the hit “Far Behind”. Think back to the days before phones could look up songs and ID them for you, when Google [...]

Album A Day, The First: Chris Cornell – Carry On

Two Album A Days today to make up for last night’s absence. This was actually semi-intentional, since I knew I’d have more time today and could give you two proper posts.
Artist: Chris Cornell
Album: Carry On
Release Date: June 5, 2007
I’m pretty sure my love for Chris Cornell has been very well documented on this [...]

Brand New’s Daisy Gets Buried Under Weeds

With 2006’s The Devil and God are Raging Inside Me, Brand New set a new standard for alternative rock bands, showing that introspective lyrics and pained wailing could be accompanied by more than three-chord nonsense. It was, in every sense of the word, a triumph. It’s with that in mind that I listen to Daisy, [...]