by Jason's Jukebox | Jun 26, 2012 | Adventures in Record Reviews
Driving to the Jersey shore, school out for summer. Radio blasting (do you remember rock n roll radio?) “Bullet With Butterfly Wings” by The Smashing Pumpkins. Cruising the streets of Philadelphia with the sun beating down, looking for something to do...
by Jason's Jukebox | Jun 18, 2012 | Adventures in Record Reviews
Toe Rag Studios in London, England got its start in the early 1990’s and quickly made its name as the go to source for bands / musicians looking to use analog equipment. One of the founders was Liam Watson, a one time member of the ever revolving cast of...
by Jason's Jukebox | Jun 12, 2012 | Adventures in Record Reviews
Hype can be a dangerous game. For every band that releases a hyped 1st record and sustains a successful career afterwards, there are thousands of bands that lit up the music world the 1st time around then disappeared from view. In my opinion some of those bands may...
by Jason's Jukebox | Jun 5, 2012 | Adventures in Record Reviews
There comes a point in an artist’s career where every album release is accompanied by a the double-edged damning praise statement “it is INSERT ARTISTS NAME best album since….landmark album, usually from about 20 years ago”. There are a few...
by Jason's Jukebox | Jun 3, 2012 | Adventures in Record Reviews
In the mid to late 90’s the internet as a tool for the general public was still in its infancy – AOL, Compuserve, and Juno were the main providers (unfortunately for Juno they are / were neither the great movie nor the great Seattle emo-core...
by Jason's Jukebox | May 30, 2012 | Adventures in Record Reviews
In the summer of 2011 I had the chance to be involved with Critical Sun Recordings Band Crawl – an event where the proceeds would go towards helping the cause of Music Aid NW. The mission of this organization is a noble one – to support music education in...
