Welcome to the resurrection. California’s long lived post-hardcore band, Thrice, has risen from the dead. After a five year hiatus Thrice has delivered To Be Everywhere Is To Be Nowhere (TBEITBN), their ninth studio album. The band renowned for major departures of style with each new release does not disappoint with TBEITBN. Here we witness the birth of a more focused and ambitious Thrice. Dustin Kensrue’s vocals still retains its aggressive overtones but with a new […]
I apologize for my long absence. To be honest I experienced a bad case of writer’s block. It took an extraordinary band to awaken the fire. Seeing Young the Giant at New Haven’s College Street Music Hall and hearing their new release Home of the Strange (Fueled By Ramen) has definitely erased the vacuum. Home of the Strange is Young the Giant’s third release and by far their most polished. The production value is amped higher […]
Last week Bob Dylan won the Nobel Peace prize for literature. A long deserved award. If we go down the list of true American musical poets Bruce Springsteen would be next. And right behind him, JASON ISBELL. ISBELL has created through his words and music a diorama of “real world” southern culture. His canvases paint pictures of the psychologically stunted, romantically broken, and the frustrated blue collar worker. His songs are short stories of love lost […]
