Album A Day: Gin Blossoms – New Miserable Experience

Artist: Gin Blossoms
Album: New Miserable Experience
Release Date: August 4, 1992
Another album that might come up as a potential answer if you held a gun to my head and demanded I listed my favorite album ever. Oddly enough, I only discovered this album about a year and a half ago, and wrote extensively about [...]

Album A Day: Hey Monday – Hold on Tight

Artist: Hey Monday
Album: Hold on Tight
Release Date: October 7, 2008
In case there was any confusion, tonight’s a bit of a throwaway. Long day of work and classes, and now I’m off to spend the rest of the evening watching not scary movies with the girlfriend. I feel as though we’ll watch something fairly [...]

Creed Come Full Circle, Offer Exactly What’s Advertised

So I’m fairly certain that 98% of the blog world isn’t giving this album the time of day because…well, it’s Creed. But therein lies a question; what is it about Creed that has earned them so much hate? Usually when I ask this question I’m met with stares, snarky smirks and responses to the effect [...]

Album A Day: Matchbox Twenty – Mad Season

Artist: Matchbox 20
Album: Mad Season
Release Date: May 23, 2000
Mad Season was another early addition to my now humongous music collection, one of those discs I burned a hole in (back in the days before iPods ruled the Earth). Looking back, it’s pretty obvious this was one I bought solely because I dug singles “If You’re [...]

Album A Day: Michael Jackson – Bad

Artist: Michael Jackson
Album: Bad
Release Date: August 31, 1987
This is it. I promise. This will be the last time for the foreseeable future that you’ll see a post carrying a Michael Jackson tag. I just felt as though I, like the rest of the world, needed to squeeze one last drop from the opportunity.
In all honesty, [...]

Tuesday Night Roundup: October 27, 2009 (For Lack Of A Better Title)

Another Tuesday, another Tuesday Night Roundup!
-Last week Rihanna debuted her first new song since 2007’s Good Girl Gone Bad and her troubled situation with Chris Brown from earlier this year. “Russian Roulette” comes from the singer’s forthcoming Rated R, slated to be released November 23rd. Normally a downtempo ballad is a terrible choice for a [...]

Album A Day: Jay-Z + DJ Danger Mouse – The Grey Album

Artist: Jay-Z + DJ Danger Mouse (With A Little Help from The Beatles)
Album: The Grey Album
Released: February 2004
It takes balls to mess with the music of The Beatles. Too many people love it too much, and are willing to take up pitchforks and torches in the name of protecting it. On the other hand, Jay-Z [...]

Them Crooked Vultures (Insert Bird Metaphor Here) with “New Fang”

After November 17, can we issue a moratorium on references to birds when talking about Them Crooked Vultures? I deem it so.
Anyway, yesterday the three-headed monstrosity of awesome known as Them Crooked Vultures released their first full length studio track to the public. “New Fang” is a heavy number big on guitars going every which [...]

Album A Day: Simon & Garfunkel – Sounds of Silence

Artist: Simon & Garfunkel
Album: Sounds of Silence
Release Date: January 17, 1966
My current conditions are not particularly conducive to listening to the soothing harmonies of Simon & Garfunkel. It’s game night here in Philadelphia, and the Eagles are sufficiently pounding the Redskins, but I’d much rather sit quietly in my room in my apartment, a [...]

Album A Day: Daft Punk – Discovery

Artist: Daft Punk
Album: Discovery
Release Date: March 13, 2001
I’m running out of time tonight and want to get this up, so this is gonna be a bit of a throwaway sadly, but I do have one thought that needs to be put out there. I’ve never been a fan of dance music. However you [...]