Created over a two-year period of reclusion in the studio, The Twilight Sad’s new release Fourteen Autumns & Fifteen Winters is an experience in immersion. With a thick sound full of distorted guitar, toy keyboards, old music…
Scotland’s Biffy Clyro is a three-piece symphonic pop-punk band which plays like an orchestra, with all the astounding dynamic range that description should entail. The band has been around for the better part of a decade, producing…
When the three male members of Phosphorescent took stage at midnight on Wednesday, October 10 at the Bug Jar in Rochester, many patrons who had toe-tapped and finger-snapped to Peter and the Wolf’s woozy set had gone…
Listening to the story of Simple Kid (aka Ciaran McFeely), you’d think it was something stolen from a made for TV movie by some record label trying to play on the music listening world’s heart strings. After…
The irony in Morrissey opening his concert with “Stop Me If You Think You’ve Heard This One Before” was not lost on me. Because if by that song’s title/statement, Morrissey is referring to his large repertoire of…
It may seem a peculiar place to witness the Arcade Fire live show for the first time – Columbus, Ohio – but then again, it’s not. It was actually the final stop on the indie collective’s North…
The release of Doveman’s sophomore album, With My Left Hand, I Raise the Dead in October coincides perfectly with the early autumn call for background music for sitting on a park bench in order to loll in…
My initial exposure to Anti-Flag was through a punk compilation tape that a friend had dubbed for me in the mid-90s. Being mostly unfamiliar with the genre except for its more commercially successful acts, I remember being…
“Stay Down Champion Stay Down. Let Them All Have Your Neck,” are the words adorning the insert of The National’s latest CD, Boxer, an ode to an open loneliness felt by someone standing in front of the…
A certain porcelain dove descended on Indianapolis for the first time to an expectant standing-room throng of old and young. The people waited as one mass, all too ready to be entertained. That dove’s given name is…