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TweetShare The Fair Ohs stole my heart with their punk-infused pop sound, in which I claimed their sound would “rock your face off.”  Well, brace yourself because I think their new track, “My Spit” literally did rock my face off.  If you were expecting for light, poppy, punk tunes, I’m sorry to disappoint – their [...]

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TweetShare Modern pop culture, be it music, movies or television, thrives on the nostalgia of our past, a revolving door of ideas and sounds. And as music trends more towards the blissful, sentimental pop tunes – Tennis, Cults, Washed Out – the notion of dirty garage punk and distorted lyrics seem laughable. Portland, OR.’s Grrrl [...]

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TweetShare The debut album “Nothing Hurts” from London’s Male Bonding was a raucous affair, harnessing the elements of the punk DIY ethos mixed with Lo-Fi jitterbug-rock and hazed out to the smog and back, but even though a multitude of bands in 2010 had a similar sound, Male Bonding never found the success of their [...]

TweetShare Buy the album from Amazon – MP3 There’s a little delusion when it comes to punk’s more contemporary and tamed musical alterations. UK trio Fair Ohs (which we previewed last month) interplay a few select variations on it in their newest album “Everything Is Dancing,” from surf, to tropicalia, to disjointed fuzz-pop, evening out [...]

TweetShare Buy the album from Amazon – Vinyl / MP3 / CD The Rock Opera has never had an easy time of it as a genre. Over-indulgence and excess only works when it’s finely tuned, and any album with an overarching concept tends to get shoehorned into this category regardless of actual intent. From “Tommy”, [...]

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TweetShare Eugh. Just look at those publicity shots. Dylan Champagne has been crafted to look like the most smug man on the planet. His fighting stance on the left is just inviting you to hit him. With photos like those, an album called “Love Songs of the Apocalypse Volume 1″ and a bandcamp blurb that [...]

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TweetShare Whilst not exactly warmly received by critics, The Kills‘ newest album “Blood Pressures” was warmly received by me, and that’s all that matters, right? Right. A couple of weeks ago the band released another new video, this time for the next single from the album “Future Starts Slow” and around the same time the audio for [...]

TweetShare Download this entire album for free! One of the fundamental goals of running a music blog is to introduce people to new music.  The primary method of doing this is to highlight new releases, either via up and coming bands that show potential or tried-and-true musical mainstays that generally please the masses.  Lost in [...]