by Music Team | Sep 16, 2014 | Album Review
By Dylan Reddick Just a year after releasing his debut album, The Life and Times of Johnny Valiant, Rittz has returned with his sophomore effort, Next to Nothing. After a debut that garnered significant buzz thanks in part to some high profile endorsements from the...
by Music Team | Sep 11, 2014 | Album Review
By Janeal Downs Artists either want you to think they are in the music industry because it is their passion or because they want money and the fame. Sam Smith tries to convince listeners that he is in it because he loves it, with the first song of his 2014 album...
by Music Team | Sep 9, 2014 | Album Review
By Jamal Stone 2014 marks Blonde Redhead’s 20th anniversary, but Barragán is no retrospective. The album’s title alludes to the clean lines and colors of Modernist Mexican architect Luis Barragán. Barragán’s monoliths invigorated the industrialized bustle of...
by Music Team | Sep 3, 2014 | Album Review
By Dylan Reddick Change has always been a concept of varying distinction when it comes to music. Be it a change in form, aesthetic or composition such adjustments are often met with bi-polar reactions both critically and sales-wise. Opeth is a band quite familiar...
by Music Team | May 15, 2014 | Album Review
Remember the late 90’s teen angst drama Dawson’s Creek? The show was built around stories about coming of age and dealing with life and love. The show was mostly criticized for its use of borderline pretentious vocabulary but extolled for it use of music to set tone...
by Music Team | May 15, 2014 | Album Review
This is not a collection of songs. It is a collection of electronic noises. As I listened to this collection of tracks, I had a hard time following them. if it had not been for the abrupt stop or fade out of the individual tracks I would not know where one track ends...