Wild Young Hearts is an album worth picking up, but from listening to the high points, you’ll wonder if it could’ve been a must-have album you’d force your friends to listen to. Instead, it’ll suffice as something you put on when you’re driving with the windows down and singing when no one’s watching.

Oh, what’s Mr. Grohl doing these days?

On October 6th, more than three years after the release of The Spell, The Black Heart Procession will unleash its sixth full-length effort, the aptly entitled Six. Anyone else seeing a trend, here? Temporary Residence Ltd will have the honors of releasing the 13-track album, which is billed as being full of the band’s trademark [...]

There hasn’t been a bounty of festival news of late, but there still has been a few items of note. Let’s recap with a new edition of Festivals in Brief…

File the title New Again under fiction. Strictly fiction.

I was made aware of Pet Ghost Project the way nearly all good music gets noticed, by being passed from one person with musical credibility to another. If you trust a man’s taste in tunes, you could easily pass time in a foxhole beside him, guarding your lives. In this way, I knew I’d appreciate [...]

Why is it that anything The Mars Volta touches turns into something so bizarre there’s often not enough words to describe it? Perhaps it’s their extremely progressive rock music, or maybe it’s the band’s insistence on 20 minute jam sessions seamlessly followed by hypnotic visuals of ultimate strangeness? Who knows, but whatever it is [...]

The punk rock ying yang that composes the colossal San Francisco noise rock punk legends Flipper is essentially chaotic yet never far too removed from the center of the world. Arming themselves with two sides of this punk rock coin, Flipper brings back on Fight the older hardcore days before the death of the band’s [...]

The name Nesey Gallons may not ring a bell, but if you’re a fan of the Athens, Georgia based music collective known as Elephant 6, you’ve surely heard his styles and sounds before — he is best known for his production work on various Elephant 6-affiliated projects, including recent albums by The Music Tapes and [...]

Did you happen to miss Matt and Kim the last time they came through your town? Fret not, they will be back again… and soon. Despite the fact the Brooklyn duo have spent more time in the tour bus then their apartment since their sophomore release, Grand, dropped last January, the duo of Matt Johnson [...]

What is this? 1991 again?

#1 Hits Explosion: though it sounds like a new wave of Now That’s What I Call Music!, as the music industry has shown us before-Neutral Milk Hotel wasn’t neutral, a dairy product, or a hotel-names can often be misleading. The hyperbolic title is none other than the name to be bestowed upon a best-of album [...]

Yes, after all these years, we still hum the song. But there’s more than just a one-hit wonder here. There’s a story that’s pretty, pretty… pretty cool.

Don’t you love it when they keep rolling out the goods like this?

39 years later…

What do labels with antiquated sales methods do when the chips are down? They get desperate and make an array of mistakes. And then, there’s that rare occasion, when one finally makes a smart move that is sure to convince the rest of the Big Four that a change in ethos is necessary. This is [...]

This past weekend, our resident hip-hop guru, Michael Denslow, traveled to the Motor City to take in the sights and sounds of this year’s edition of Rock the Bells. His experience follows…

It certainly feels and sounds like our favorite ex-grunge band…

Deftly combining the worlds of jazz, rock and noise (without falling into the dreaded “jazz fusion” territory), Bag It is something that anyone either curious about jazz or completely immersed in the genre should seek out ASAP.