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Black Swan Lane – Vita Eterna
Atlanta, GA’s Black Swan Lane has become an institution in the modern post punk scene. Formed in the mid 00’s by Jack Sobel, John Kolbeck, and Mark Burgess, they’ve remained dedicated to nurturing emotional responses out of listeners worldwide through an intoxicating...
Conduit of Humanity – The Zen Cage
One of my favorite indie releases of the last few years was AAA Battery's Corrosion of Buddha. A cross country, file swapping kind of project, the project held up as an homage to the corrosion of the human spirit. Musically, it was a blend of alternative sensibilities...
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Summer at Shatter Creek – All the Answers
Part 5 of a series that will run every Friday throughout 2012 as I discuss records that have affected me throughout the years – Flashback Fridays In the late 90's the music scene was shifting quickly, and as a wannabe hipster, I made sure to keep up with what was...
The Unthanks – Diversions, Vol. 1: The Songs of Robert Wyatt and Antony & the Johnsons: Live From the Union Chapel, London
In the summer of 2005 I had the opportunity to visit Chicago, IL. I was very happy, because it gave me an opportunity to play Sufjan Stevens' Here Come the Illinois in the actual state of Illinois. I told you in my bio - I'm really not that cool. It also gave me a...
Graham Coxon – A+E
I'm not a huge fan of bands reuniting without a new album to promote. When The Chameleons reunited in 2000 and toured throughout the world, as fans we were treated to a new studio album (very underrated in my opinion), a live album, and two acoustic albums. More than...
Fountains of Wayne – self titled
Part 4 of a series that will run every Friday throughout 2012 as I discuss records that have affected me throughout the years – Flashback Fridays In the years immediately following high school I spent a lot of my time driving up and down I-95. My quest (as well as my...
Lee Ranaldo – Between the Times and the Tides
The show Gilmore Girls always frustrated the hell out of me. The mom (played by Lauren Graham) always failed to connect with me - it always looked like she was trying to think of her lines to me. The show itself had a mildly interesting premise and was usually...
DJ Jazzy Jeff and The Fresh Prince – He’s the DJ, I’m the Rapper
Part 3 of a series that will run every Friday throughout 2012 as I discuss records that have affected me throughout the years – Flashback Fridays As someone who grew up in the Philadelphia region and then moved across the country to the Seattle, WA area, I've had to...
Madonna – MDNA
I have to be honest with you - as someone who is dedicated to only publishing positive music reviews, I did not expect to be reviewing the new Madonna album. A lot of praise was given for her performance at the Superbowl earlier this year - I was underwhelmed. The...
Genesis – Foxtrot
Part 2 of a series that will run every Friday throughout 2012 as I discuss records that have affected me throughout the years - Flashback Fridays I wasn't completely honest with you in last weeks column. Although by the age of 19 I had sworn off mainstream music...
Perfume Genius – Put Your Back N 2 It
The Seattle region is the best region in the world. You may be thinking, "well...not so sure about that"...but from early June until late October we have almost NO rain (yes, you read that right). We are close to Puget Sound beaches, the Cascade Mountain chain,...
The Shins – Port of Morrow
The movie Garden State hit home on several levels. Zach Braff was amazing in the TV show Scrubs but hasn't always connected with me as a "movie actor" - here he was absolute perfection. His character returns home to New Jersey to deal with the death of a loved one....
The Chameleons – Script of the Bridge
1st entry in a weekly column entitled "Flashback Fridays" where I discuss albums that have impacted me over the years My day began with somewhat of a bizarre exchange with Courtney Love Cobain on twitter. After reading about her campaign against my childhood (and let...
First Aid Kit – The Lion’s Roar
Everything I know about Sweden can be distilled into the following: IKEA Swedish Fish (usually purchased at IKEA) Lingonberry Jam (purchased at IKEA) The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo Pärson Sound - International Harvester - Harvester - Träd, Gräs och Stenar (same band...
Bruce Springsteen – Wrecking Ball
World War III has already taken place. Sure, you may be sitting there thinking "What the hell is Jason talking about" but let me explain. In 2005 Long Beach Island, NJ switched from carrying all Philadelphia area channels to New York City area channels. In my world...
Radiohead – The Daily Mail / Staircase
Radiohead have always been a bit of a polarizing band in the indie elitist music community. I view them as the music world's version of Apple Computers - have a bit of an outsider feel to them, absolutely the best at what they do, and really, really successful. As...
Lana Del Rey – Born to Die
In 1993 I was starting 11th grade in a suburban Philadelphia high school and as most kids are at that age - uncertain about a lot of things. As things tend to do for teenagers things always came back to music. This was a very strange time to be in high school - we had...
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