Details emerge about Bamboozle's Hoodwink Festival
After announcing a batch of new bands earlier today for Bamboozle, details have starting to emerge on the East Coast’s Hoodwink Festival. Hoodwink is a one-day show on the Friday before each Bamboozle where bands will cover other bands.
So far artists being covered include:
Everclear
Kanye West
No Doubt
Rage Against the...
Weezer frontman released from hospital
Good news for Weezer fans: After being involved in a bus accident earlier this week and hospitalized with three cracked ribs and a punctured lung, frontman Rivers Cuomo has been discharged from the hospital. Weezer webmaster/documentarian Karl Koch blogged: "…The time has come for freedom! After walking with and without a cane and getting some...
Kevin Devine & The Goddamn Band
Kevin Devine & The Goddamn Band Brother’s Blood [3.5/5]
Kevin Devine’s cycle of self-reactions reaches its best results yet with Brother’s Blood, a wildly varied affair featuring hushed acoustic/electric ditties and cathartic, jagged howlers. If the falters of 2006’s major-label outing, Put Your Ghost To Rest, could be attributed to a muted dynamism and consistent...
Various Artists
Various Artists The Nurse Who Loved Me: A Tribute To Failure [3.5/5]
It’s fitting that this Failure tribute is full of hidden gems and undiscovered talent–after all, that describes the career of the beloved cult space-rockers. In fact, Paramore’s fantastic version of “Stuck On You” (an impressive showcase for Hayley Williams’ vocal range) isn’t...
Youth Group
Youth Group The Night Is Ours [4/5]
There’s a point on Youth Group’s third full-length when vocalist Toby Martin sings, “I understand that the root of pain is beauty.” That line is an apt description of the ideology behind The Night Is Ours. (There’s also a line in the same song, “In My Dreams,”...
Super Furry Animals
Super Furry Animals Dark Days/Light Years [4/5]
Whether recording entirely in Welsh or chewing celery and carrots with Sir Paul McCartney (who chomped percussively on 2001’s Rings Around The World), Super Furry Animals have always been most effective when at their most adventurous. This makes Dark Days/Light Years a most welcome addition to the...
Sights And Sounds
Sights And Sounds Monolith [4/5]
The full-length debut from Sights And Sounds is the kind of record you’d expect a band to make at the peak of their career. Beautiful and expansive, the Canadian four-piece–featuring Comeback Kid’s Andrew Neufeld on vocals-construct layered and intensely atmospheric works drenched in gorgeous melodies. The resulting album is...
THENEWNO2
THENEWNO2 You Are Here [1/5]
In all fairness, you cannot compare Dhani Harrison’s first proper album to the work of his father, Beatles guitarist George Harrison. But frankly, that lineage is the only reason a record this mediocre would be getting any attention at all. Most bands would be able to skirt the spotlight...
In The Red
In The Red Volume 2 [3/5]
Mike Hale is a dude. He fronted influential and heavily awesome Gainesville, Florida, punks Gunmoll until they disbanded in 2003. Since then, he’s kept busy with a strong body of solo work and a passionate dedication to touring. In The Red are Hale’s return to full-band rock ’n’...