Released: August 18, 2008
Label: SideOneDummy
New Jersey doesn’t seem to deliver a great many things of interest. Hardly surprising when you consider it’s nickname (the “Garden State”) and that fact that it is overshadowed by it’s close neighbout, New York.
And then, from completely off the rader, came the Gaslight Anthem. (more…)
Released: March 11, 2008
Label: PUSA Inc.
Everyone loves a good time, and nobody brings the fun like the Presidents of the United States of America. Throughout their sixteen years, PUSA have gifted us with song after song filled with the catchiest, bounciest hooks.
These Are The Good Times People continues the trend, and within seconds of album-opener ‘Mixed Up SOB’, everyone in listening-distance will be grinning. But just three minutes into their latest album, PUSA seem to suddenly take their collective foot off the pedal-on-the-right.
Coldplay - 4 albums in and still going strong - ‘Parachutes’ brought Coldplay to the forefont of the music scene back in 2000 and helped them to do something not really managed by a British band since Radiohead - Crack America.
Released: July 22, 2008
Despite looking like Professor Snape these days, there’s no denying that Trent Rexnor is something of a musical genius. Shame then, that The Slip is such a poor show.
