After being dubbed a hit in their homeland of Iceland, Of Monsters And Men are looking to create similar waves across the rest of the globe. Even without the world-wide release of their album, the band has created a commotion already in the States by selling out most of…

Although Rotary Club’s lineup tends to change, leaving Tom Devaney as the only static musician, the band’s new LP, Second Year In Swine, is a flowing collection of eclectic indie-pop with some post-rock twists. Throughout the release, a twangy guitar tone reoccurs and boosts up the quirky sound of…

Tall Days is the up-and-coming blues-rock duo of Graham Hartke and Joe DeAngelus, both hailing from Essex County, NJ. Battling The Elements is their self-produced debut full-length. Together Hartke and DeAngelus succeed beautifully in creating a work that really showcases not only their talent, but their passion for music…

The third album from the Pennsylvania trio, Good Old War, is one pleasing track after another and is as pure as the grass after a storm. The melodious folk three-piece’s Come Back As Rain, keeps the dreary feeling of some of their song’s motifs from overtaking the release with…

Tim Fite’s Ain’t Ain’t Ain’t combines elements of folk, rock, and country into a 13-track album that tells the story of youth and growing up. It brings the listener on an emotional roller coaster as it highlights the highest and lowest points of adolescence.

In his latest CD, Fite…

Fenster’s latest release, Bones, can easily be described as a minimalist’s wet dream. The NYC/Berlin-based lo-fi band relies on the bare minimum to form their “deconstructed pop” sound and use various sound effects to spice up their music such as the ticking clocks, gunshots and screams that can be…

England In 1819′s Alma starts out as soft-spoken, like the shore on a waveless day. But much like the sea, the release is unpredictable with choppy bits of roaring drums thrown in. The septet, which started as a trio made up of a father and his two sons, has…

Choir Of Young Believers’ Rhine Gold is an ambient pop listen with lo-fi vocals thrown in. The album starts off with the second longest song, “The Third Time,” which is a combustion of diverse instruments with a ghastly feel while debuting Jannis Noya Makrigiannis’ melodic vocals. Although a good…

Songs You Won’t Like On An Album You Don’t Want is the full-length debut work of New Jersey native Tim Borkowski. Borkowski is the winner of three consecutive “Special Lifetime Achievement” awards and is the frontrunner for this year’s due to the fact that these awards come from the…

Take One Car’s post-hardcore release, It’s Going To Be A Nice Day, is a long album, and it’s one incredible track after another. There wasn’t a point during the release that I was bored and there wasn’t a song that was terrible. The seven-minute instrumental, “It’s Going To Be…