Category: Features
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In all of the crazy music news from the latter part of 2017, I feel the most bittersweet as we bid farewell (for now) to…
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As another year winds down and our best-of-the-year lists hit the web, we’d be remiss to not acknowledge some of the great new music that…
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You can view our list of The Best Albums of 2017 here. In a year in which great albums were abundant, it goes without saying…
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You can view our list of The Best Songs of 2017 here. Another year is in the books, and while it’s easy to dwell on the…
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Dan Campbell of The Wonder Years wrote a line in the song “Hoodie Weather” that says, “Growing up means watching my heroes turn human in…
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Graduation could easily be considered the weakest of Kanye West’s seven solo albums. That should tell you something about the music of Kanye West. When…
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October is in full swing, and soon, we’ll all be clad in our favorite costumes, celebrating the spookiest of holidays. To get you ready for…
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In many ways, In Defense of the Genre is the absolute time capsule of pop punk in 2007. The sounds spanning the double album run…
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Every so often, our resident vinyl lover, Kiel Hauck, takes the time to talk about a recent vinyl release and gives a breakdown about everything…
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By the fall of 2007, Chiodos had established themselves as one of the premiere post-hardcore bands on the planet. The band’s sophomore album, Bone Palace…
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UPDATE: On October 26, 2018, Saves the Day released their ninth studio album, titled 9. It’s pretty good. The Chicago Bears lost their first regular…
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The first time I heard a Kesha song, I was with my kid sister. I remember laughing together at the whimsically dark yet silly lyrics,…
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The Devil Wears Prada are the last band I can remember discovering in a magazine. For most of my youth, I was exposed to new…
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To the best of my memory, my first real feelings of depression surfaced sometime in early high school. By the time a friend handed me…
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I fell in love with Rise Against in the middle of college, during the height of the Bush era. To say it was similar to…
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It’s something you hear for years, but it appears to be an inevitability: no matter how much you try, it’s just harder to get into…
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I was sitting in my first apartment at a TV tray, which served as a desk for my old, rickety laptop, when I first heard…
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There are two kinds of memorable music videos: Those that stand the test of time as artistic genius that defined an era (think Nirvana’s “Smells…
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My first experience with letlive. was unintentional. On a hot July evening in Louisville, Kentucky, I was in attendance to cover my favorite band, Underoath,…
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It’s been 10 years and I’m still not completely sure how to use the word “Santi” in a sentence. Employing an inside joke from your…
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Last week, Lucky Boys Confusion released their first new single in nearly a decade. “It’s After Midnight” is an aggressive rock song that finds a…
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While Cities is widely regarded as Anberlin’s best album, the argument can be made that it never fully received its due. However, it’s quite possible…
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I believe Infinity on High to be Fall Out Boy’s best album, but there’s plenty of room for debate. What’s not up for debate is…
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It’s almost hard to believe that it’s been nearly four years since the release of Paramore. That album, and the singles it produced, had a…