Dirty Lungs: Dirty Lungs Matt Garrison July 10, 2014 Albums If albums were people, Dirty Lungs would have dissociative identity disorder. It sounds like a bad thing, but when you think of the lovability factor that makes the relationship between Tyler Durden and the...
CHVRCHES @ Terminal 5 Matt Garrison June 25, 2014 Concerts MANHATTAN, NY—When I bought my ticket for CHVRCHES, I didn’t really know much about them. Aside from loosely following some online coverage of the band and lead vocalist Lauren Mayberry’s sexism op-ed, I wa...
Magicicada: Wrack With Ruin Matt Garrison June 18, 2014 Albums As with any sort of noise project, trying to define Magicicada and explain what’s going on in Wrack With Ruin is quite difficult. At times the album is glitchy, at others it’s melodic, and at others it’s ju...
Joseph Lemay: Seventeen Acres Matt Garrison June 11, 2014 Albums My father spent his first 18 years of his life in North Carolina. Forever loyal to his home, he spent my early years using mixtapes to introduce me to country music inside his pickup truck. I’m no expert on...
Collapse Under The Empire: Sacrifice & Isolation Matt Garrison May 23, 2014 Albums The music industry is full of injustices. There’s nothing to make a person’s blood boil quite like an obvious Grammy rip-off or the special attention to a particular artist that legions of young girls can b...
Sworn Enemy: Back With A Vegeance Matt Garrison May 14, 2014 Goings-On Coming off a hiatus, Sworn Enemy are back with a new lineup, featuring guitarist Matt Garzilli and bassist Mike Pucciarelli, and a new album, Living On Borrowed Time (out this week). The Staten Island-based pun...
Kina Grannis: Started With Doritos Now She’s Here Matt Garrison May 14, 2014 Goings-On Vocalist and multi-instrumentalist Kina Grannis has come a long way from winning the Crash The Super Bowl contest in 2008. Last week, she released her second major-label album, Elements. Produced by Matt Hales ...
Dark Star Orchestra: Raising The Dead Matt Garrison May 14, 2014 Goings-On Now just a few years short of two decades in existence, Grateful Dead tribute band Dark Star Orchestra recently surpassed the Dead’s total number of played shows: 2,318. Dark Star Orchestra have probably come c...
Butcher Knives: Around The World In Seven Members Matt Garrison May 14, 2014 Goings-On Occasionally, there comes a band where it’s hard to believe that so many people could come together and manage to be on the same musical page. If I was told that there are seven people in the world who want to ...
Amen Dunes: Love And Everything Else Matt Garrison May 14, 2014 Goings-On Amen Dunes, usually Damon McMahon’s own project, has been upgraded, and the music on the new album Love was recorded with the help of a list of other musicians, including frequent collaborators Jordi Wheeler an...
