If you’ve ever seen a Quentin Tarantino film, you know that the music is essential for setting the tone for Tarantino’s protagonist. The sound is psychedelic, dark, and just a little bit lovely. Like Tarantino’s films, a macabre, artistic world awaits listeners on Tele Novella’s newest album, House of Souls. Continue Reading
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Album Review: Camille Bloom ‘Pieces Of Me’
Set to be released on September 9th, Pieces Of Me is a masterpiece from Seattle-based indie-rock musician Camille Bloom. Beginning her career in 2002, Camille’s soothing vocals and personal lyrics have led her around the world and back, spreading her music to all who open their ears. After a success Continue Reading
Album Review: My Iron Lung ‘Learn To Leave’
Sometimes, post-hardcore bands can lean on screaming standard melodies to draw attention away from less coherent songwriting, leaving the listener unfulfilled and disappointed. My Iron Lung, a four-piece group from San Diego, attempt to combine powerful chords and vocals with lyrics that draw in both fans of the genre and Continue Reading
Album Review: Anarbor ‘Anarbor’
Three years since their last full length record, Phoenix indie rockers Anarbor have delivered listeners with their self-titled third studio album. After announcing their short hiatus in 2013, the band has returned with a fresh new sound that shifts smoothly from their pop punk-ness of the past into the indie Continue Reading
Album Review: Pleasures ‘Fucked Up Dreams Come True’
Florida’s dark psych-rock quartet PLEASURES have just announced a vinyl release of their latest full-length album Fucked Up Dreams Come True and will be hitting the road for a month-long US tour to celebrate. The album which the band proclaims is “dark and doomy sex music for robots” came to Continue Reading
Album Review: Oceans ‘On & On EP’
Oceans is a five piece alternative and post-hardcore rock band based out of Brighton, UK and are set to release their newest EP, On & On, on August 6th. The band formed in 2014 and had previously released an EP, but after replacing three members last summer, the band decided Continue Reading
Album Review: Cane Hill ‘Smile’
If you’re a philistine when it comes to metal, Cane Hill’s first studio album might sound like your run-of-the-mill rock album. If you take a closer listen, however, you’ll find that there’s something genuine and raw about this New Orleans metal quartet. Named for an asylum in the UK, the Continue Reading
Album Review: Crown The Empire ‘Retrograde’
In the midst of their current run on the summer festival Warped Tour, Dallas rock band Crown The Empire have released their latest banger of an album, Retrograde. With gritty guitar riffs and a mix of hardcore screaming and melodic vocals, the band blasts through the full spectrum of their Continue Reading
Album Review: Capsize ‘A Reintroduction: The Essence Of All That Surrounds Me’
With a spot on this year’s Vans Warped Tour and a recent appearance at the Alternative Press Music Awards, it seems like 2016 is the year of Capsize, complete with their upcoming release Reintroduction: The Essence Of All That Surrounds Me. The band, who identify themselves as a post-hardcore band Continue Reading
Album Review: From States Away ‘Hypervigilant’
Following the release of their first album and highly successful stint on the 2015 Van’s Warped Tour, From States Away are back with their sophomore EP, Hypervigilant. Consisting of five strongly composed tracks, the five-piece pop-punk group from New England have rooted their songs with lyrics about struggling with depression Continue Reading
Album Review: Johnny Foreigner ‘Mono No Aware’
English indie darlings Johnny Foreigner are set to release their fifth studio album on July 8, Mono No Aware, and more than anything, they want this record to resonate with their core fan base. “I am waaay too emotionally invested to tell you objectively if this next record is awesome Continue Reading
Album Review: Brawlers ‘The Black EP’
British punk rockers, Brawlers, have spent much of the past year in the studio crafting The Black EP. The band previously released their debut album, Romantic Errors of Our Youth, in 2015, co-headlined a tour with Max Raptor and have also been on lineups with bands like Set It Off, Continue Reading