Last month a few of my college friends and I were talking about music via twitter. The discussion eventually descended into nostalgia over a particular moment when we all sat in a room, listened to a record uninterrupted and then talked about it immediately after: the album listening party. The album listening parties were hosted [...]

With the exception of a few songs here and there, I am not too familiar with Peter Gabriel’s work both in Genesis and his solo career. The following is a song-by-song review of his new album Scratch My Back which is a collection of covers beautifully set to strings, horns and the occasional piano. 1. [...]

Backwards it begins, and backwards we end. As though blind, we walk with our hands out, feeling our way through the mess of cacophonous noise while following notes that dart and dive and make every effort to remain unseen. Notes that are not restricted by meter and seem to travel free of the restraints of [...]

Fight Amp’s “Manners & Praise” 3.5/5 Young Widows if kept Breather Resist moniker – Jesus Lizard + Shellac #howfire: 3 #nwms Iron Age’s “The Sleeping Eye” 3.5/5 “Dress as your favorite centurion” themed thrash party that degenerates to fantasy drinking games #nwms Kylesa’s “Static Tensions” 3/5 Nate Newton fronts Baroness playing Old Man Gloom covers. [...]

Jucifer’s “L’Autrichienne” 4/5 The soundtrack to Terminator starring Clint Eastwood directed by Alejandro Jodorowsky. In a word: Trippy #nwms Daath’s “The Concealers” 3.5/5 Entombed/Repulsion-esque death metal, slick production, endlessly heavy #howfire: 7 #nwms The Flaming Lips’ “Embryonic” 3.5/5 More noir, noisy & paranoid than Kirby’s Dreamland, suffers from being too long (18 tracks!) #nwms Propagandhi’s [...]

Behemoth’s “Evangelion” 4.5/5 Musical Lord of the Rings epic with Sauron winning. Heaviest blackened death metal cd til judgement day #nwms im going to also start ascribing a #howfire level to these #nwms records on a scale of Jane Doe (10) to #crabcore (-10) #nwms Behemoth’s #howfire score is a 6 #nwms Hatebreed’s “Perseverence” 2.5/5 [...]

today i will be listening to new to me music & tweeting quick reviews with the hashtag #nwms (for new music) hope you enjoy about 17 hours ago from mobile web first up: Unsane’s 2007 “Visqueen” #nwms about 17 hours ago from Twitterrific Unsane “Visqueen” 3/5 Loud, noisy NYC stoner post-hardcore/grunge with a chip on [...]

I found today’s song review, first of hopefully many, on NPR’s SXSW mix page. The page allows you to stream over a hundred artists that played SXSW last week, and download some of the songs. Actually, quite a few of them. About 30 or so, but who’s counting, right? One of the songs I downloaded [...]

My initial response to hearing that U2 had a new album coming out in a few weeks was “Oh, that’s cool I guess.” After giving it a listen through I still feel the same way. No Line on the Horizon is pretty similar to what U2 has done since 2000′s All That You Can’t Leave [...]

Young Widows are a three piece, post-hardcore band from Louisville, Kentucky. The band has been around since 2002, though their beginning was as another Louisville band, the metalcore gods Breather Resist. B.R. called it quits in 2005, and three of the four members stayed on to form Young Widows (not without first considering “Breather Resist” [...]