Category: Features
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Check out our podcast episode breaking down our most anticipated music of 2021! It’s been almost three years since Panic! At the Disco released the…
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Phoebe Bridgers gave me my album of 2020, so her friend Julien Baker has some shoes to fill with Little Oblivions, slated for February 26th.…
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After a decade of almost yearly releases of some type, it would be reasonable to expect AFI’s Davey Havok and Jade Puget to run out…
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Tampa, Florida, rock act Underoath didn’t let 2020 slow them down. Booked to support Slipknot on a massive summer tour that went up in smoke,…
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We’re coming up on two years since the release of Golden Hour, the country pop masterpiece from Kacey Musgraves. Met with acclaim from almost every…
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You can view our list of The Best Albums of 2020 here. For many of us, our music listening experience in 2020 was vastly different…
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Mercifully, 2020 is winding to an end. Not that a simple turn of the calendar will solve all of our problems, but as we reach…
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It literally slipped my mind that My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy was turning 10 years old until I saw people tweeting about it. And if you’ve…
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I’ve often said that Underoath’s sonic evolution has mirrored that of my own musical tastes. Maybe that’s just an easy way of explaining why the…
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Rock music wasn’t in rotation in my life in any form heading into the fall of 2000. Several years prior, I had fallen head-over-heels in…
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One of the things I miss the most in the world is being new to music, walking into a Best Buy and buying an album…
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There’s something existentially beautiful about those rare, unpredictable moments when an album or a song arrives in your life at exactly the right time. Music…
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It probably goes without saying that I listen to a lot of music. Like, a lot. And it’s been that way for as long as…
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Unlike most bubblegum pop acts, Katy Perry has managed to stay newsworthy throughout her entire career thus far. Whether we’re talking about her joyous pregnancy…
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As we’ve noted repeatedly these past few months, Summer 2020 has shaped up to be…not good. Not good at all. No summer concerts. No summer…
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It was November 11, 2016. Just days after one of the most disastrous and damaging presidential elections in American history, iconic hip hop crew A…
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The first MxPx release to catch my ear wasn’t a studio album. In the summer of 1999, the band released At the Show, a 21-track…
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During the spring semester of my junior year of college, I spent countless afternoons manning the booth for our student radio station. For what felt…
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Every year, I use my love of music videos as an excuse to spend way too much time watching music videos from a decade prior…
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Secret & Whisper has long been one of my favorite underrated bands. You’ll probably remember in 2018 that I wrote a reflection on their first…
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In the last few years, there has been a flood of “reimagined” versions of classic albums and songs. Some might see this as a waste,…
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It’s Valentine’s Day and, take it or leave it, love is in the air. I have searched far and wide for the scene’s sappiest offerings…
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The Interrupters have slowly become the most famous band no one has heard of. Early in 2019, I discovered their album Fight The Good Fight…
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“I stall before I start.” Motion City Soundtrack is a band that is loved by different people for different lyrics, different sounds, and remarkably distinct…