I still cannot figure out why, but Sixx: A.M. is one of my favorite bands from the past few years. “Are You With Me” comes from the group’s second, and most recent, album This Is Gonna Hurt, an album that has the overall theme of critiquing the American ideal of material beauty. Read More »
This song perplexes me. Mostly because it seems so happy, I know it wants to be upbeat, but the lyrics are hauntingly real and honestly sad. Read More »
I’ll admit it. I couldn’t quite take Sadistik seriously at first. With a name that sounds like a bad Linkin Park knockoff, and an album cover like something out of mid-2000′s Evanescence, I was skeptical. But once I moved past my skepticism and actually listened to his album Flowers for My Father I was impressed with Sadistik’s emotive style of rapping.
As I sat in the radio office last night discussing the meaning of life with other board members, I kept thinking back to this song: “One Red Thread” by Blind Pilot.
Its Easter Break! Thank God (I’m so punny). Here are a few tunes to get you through this weekend.
As a loyal follower of STRFKR, I have worshipped every moment of the band’s existence, starting with the first time I heard “Rawnald Gregory Erickson the Second,” and continuing into the release of “Miracle Mile,” despite its undeservedly mixed reviews.
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds have had quite a journey in the thirty-some years since the group’s inception. The music has evolved a great deal, yet so has the band’s physical composition: Nick Cave is now the only original member still in the permanent lineup, though Push the Sky Away features contributions from Barry Adamson, an original member who has not been with the band since 1986.
If I were to choose one album that really brings me back to my childhood, it would have to be Jerry Garcia and David Grisman’s Not For Kids Only, a folk album of children’s songs which, as the title suggests, is entirely appropriate for me to still be listening to even though I’m no longer a little tie-dye clad child.”Freight Train” in particular has stuck with me, its beautiful mandolin and soothing vocals still serving as an adult lullaby.
