March 2009
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Check out The Mess →
The Mess’s debut LP Songs For Healing is now available digitall through iTunes. Having just paid off a considerable amount of my ever-expanding credit card balance, I just recently had the pleasure of purchasing this long awaited effort. For fans of earnest rock mixed with subtle-yet-entirely-effective uses of non-neon band inspired synth effects, the band’s debut is a fantastic...
Sounds of Sorrow
Absolutely beautiful. Music that lives, breathes, and most importantly, speaks for itself. I don’t personally know Jeremy Larson, but I’d venture to say he’s a pretty sad dude. Isn’t it incredibly haunting and yet equally as wonderous how so much inspiration and creativity is born from our deepest sorrows? Clearly there is beauty to be had in everything even...
“If love comes your way
don’t be afraid
Unlock the box you heart’s...”
– Maybe I’m Just Tired - As Tall As Lions
Sometimes at the end of a shitty day, week, year...
“You’re not a machine, I’m sure of that. You’re every bit like...”
– A Space To Grow - The Dangerous Summer
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Listen to Your Best Friend →
A nice raw blend of progressive indie and alt-rock hailing from Michigan. Unsigned and constantly on the road, YBF offers a great deal of sonic variety as well as thought-provoking lyrical content. The songs feature variant percussion, luring riffs, and some great vocal interplay between the three lead (yes! three) vocals. Honestly, it’s great to hear some uncompromised rock tunes low on...
“The world can take control but don’t ever lose your heart, because I know you...”
– Surfaced- The Dangerous Summer
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It becomes quite difficult commenting on...
This Providence - Who Are You Now? Stream →
For your listening pleasure. Not entirely sure how I feel about the band’s newest effort, but I should have some general remarks soon. On a first few listens it seems rather safe. Perhaps my expectations for the band have remained unfairly high after their fantastic debut This World’s Divorce - but should the fan be faulted for seeing a great deal of potential in a band? The record...
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Here with another daily dose of nostalgia for...
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It’s exceedingly rare that I’ll...
Quick Hits: Acceptance - Glory/Us (Acoustic)
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Stream Mansions' Debut LP "New Best Friends" →
Doghouse Record’s Mansions is set to release his debut LP New Best Friends tomorrow (March 3). Despite the release of prior EPs, I’ll be entirely honest in saying that I hadn’t the faintest clue who or what Mansions was until about three weeks ago. Thankfully, my first introduction to Christopher Browder’s brutally honest songwriting and delicate yet entirely effective...
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I wish I had something particularly clever or...
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WatchQuick Hits: Grapevine Fires - Death Cab for Cutie
It’s hard to discern whether or not Death Cab’s Narrow Stairs faltered amidst immense expectation (expectations that were…well…to be expected at this point in the band’s career) or that it simply wasn’t the band’s finest effort. Surely they were admired for their choice of recording technique - mixing it...
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Sleeping With Headphones Radio Show 2/28/09 →
Listen here (downloadable link). Let us know what you think.
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The Blood Runs Thick
There is truly nothing more fulfilling than listening to a record and knowing without any doubt, without equivocation, that the final product is precisely what its creator intended it to be. That at the record’s core lie the heart of its producer, unfiltered and true. Circumstances such as these, as few and far in between as they may be in today’s musical environment, provide the...
