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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]