by Jason's Jukebox | Nov 29, 2014 | Adventures in Record Reviews
Anyone who absorbs an ungodly amount of music will tell you – sometimes the bands and records become lifetime companions and sometimes….well, sometimes you struggle to remember what they sound like. Those initial impressions are important –...
by Jason's Jukebox | Nov 18, 2014 | Adventures in Record Reviews
The Cornelius Crane – Manchester, England’s answer to American alt-country – have released over an album’s worth of quality material over the last 2 years or so. Instead of delivering 12 songs on the traditional long player, the band have...
by Jason's Jukebox | Nov 12, 2014 | Adventures in Record Reviews
The summer of 1995 represented my 1st taste of adult freedom. High school in the rear view mirror and higher education still in the future, it truly felt like there were endless possibilities. My best friend and I ventured out to Hershey, PA to catch what was being...
by Jason's Jukebox | Oct 21, 2014 | Adventures in Record Reviews
It’s been about 18 months since we last heard from New York City’s The Lost Patrol. 2013’s Driven was a masterful record, indebted to 80’s post-punk with a side of noir. It was one of my favorite records of 2013 and I was curious about how the...
by Jason's Jukebox | Oct 7, 2014 | Adventures in Record Reviews
The post Nirvana music world left a wasteland of burned out one hit wonder alternative rockers. Weezer didn’t fit that mold, thankfully. Their 1994 debut album was an almost instant hit (over 3 million copies sold to date) that straddled the line between...
by Jason's Jukebox | Sep 14, 2014 | Adventures in Record Reviews
About 15 or 16 months ago I wrote that Black Swan Lane would have a hard time topping then current effort, The Last Time In Your Light. A perfect distillation of the bands strengths, I wondered where they’d go from there. As it turns out – on to greater...