Review: Empire! Empire! (I Was a Lonely Estate)/Football, Etc - Split 7

Released: December 15, 2009

Label: Count Your Lucky Stars

After last year's What It Takes to Move Forward, Empire! Empire! certainly seems like they are the very pinnacle of emo creativity and execution, breathing new life into a genre currently choking on its co-opted mainstream success. With the genre's elder statesmen like Sunny Day Real Estate [...]

Review: Ludlow Lions - No Stories

Label: self-released (CD and donation-based download)

Released: March 16, 2010

Lately, it seems that Brooklyn’s cup runneth over with quality indie rock, so it’s getting harder and harder to separate the truly good (you know, the bands who are pushing their scene, not just tagging along) from the pack. Ludlow Lions doesn’t instantly solve that problem, [...]

Review: Big Audio Dynamite - This Is Big Audio Dynamite (Legacy Edition)

Released: April 27, 2010

Label: Legacy/Sony

The downside of a “deluxe” re-issue of an album is that it forces the hand of completists, pushing the purchase of yet another version of an album they already likely have on more than one format. The upside is that it offers more bang for the buck of first time [...]

Review: Girl in a Coma - Adventures in Coverland

Label: Blackheart Records

Released: April 13, 20 and 27, 2010

An album of covers travels over sketchy ground any way you slice it. There are more opportunities to screw it up than to succeed. If you break down the elements of a good cover, things like knowing and loving the song, being true to it [...]



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