Category: reviews
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Sing Music Boy, Sing
artist: OT-musicboy album: Jump Over (a fence of electric sound) genre: Indie Rock label: unsigned listen now: Not A Song :: Did You Tell Your Mother You Knew :: Dance (with the musicboy) buy now: [itunes link=”http://itunes.apple.com/us/artist/ot-musicboy/id403425750?uo=4″ title=”OT – Musicboy”] Why do I feel like OT-musicboy is a guilty pleasure? Maybe it’s because I didn’t…
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Jump Back :: The Week in Review
Patrons of Punk re-embraced a re-post of an article written a few weeks back…before the meltdown…about a band from Phoenix called Moovalya. I felt a bit bad as it was our technical difficulties that caused the article to disappear for a bit. More post-hardcore punk followed on Tuesday with Thurdeen’s review of Sleep City’s debut…
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Moovalya :: Old School Punk with a New Found Flair
Now is the time to rejoice my fellow stage divers of old because your friends at Froglix have uncovered further proof that punk is not dead.
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Jump Back…The Week in Review
This week kicked off with some cool news about The Kut being considered for the video game Rock Band, pimped a video from Amsterdam’s Go Back to the Zoo for their song “I’m the Night (See You Later)” and followed up with a the latest single from Attention Thieves. “Let It All Out” rocks out loud…
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Picking Up Where They Left Off
artist: Small City Calling | genre: alternative, indie-pop | label: unsigned listen: Hold Me Closer :: Standing Room Only :: Satellites When last we visited Small City Calling they were racking up 2010 Froglix Music Awards in bunches. Fast forward to 2011 and we find this talented quintet from sunny San Diego on the verge…
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Attention Thieves Let Out the Rock
artist: Attention Thieves genre: Brit Alt-Rock label: unsigned buy now: [itunes link=”http://itunes.apple.com/gb/album/let-it-all-out/id417188146?uo=4″ title=”Attention Thieves – Let It All Out”] listen now: Let It All Out Sometimes you just want rock. You don’t want gimmicks. You don’t care for the latest thing rock has been paired up with or some niche genre of rock. No synth-rock,…
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Musical Zoo Food
artist: Go Back to the Zoo | genre: alternative, rock | [itunes link=”http://itunes.apple.com/nl/album/electric/id384623232?uo=4″ title=”Go_Back_to_the_Zoo-Benny_Blisto_(Album)”] Very soon the indie world will converge on on the city of Austin, TX for a quaint little music festival that some of you just may have heard of…I believe it’s called SXSW! Yeah, it’s only the largest indie music gathering/event…
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Simply Punk :: SIMPL3JACK
artist: SIMPL3JACK | genre: punk | label: Holy War Entertainment What do you get when a thirteen year old boy falls asleep and dreams of a space odyssey searching for Bob Mould and Grant Hart from Hüsker Dü? You get a song dedicated to White Stripes drummer Meg White of course. If that makes any…
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…an End and a Beginning
artist: Mark Munroe | genre: alternative, rock | itunes: [itunes link=”http://itunes.apple.com/us/album/secrets-lies-single-version/id404623775?i=404623783&uo=4″ title=”Mark_Munroe-Secrets_and_Lies_(Single_Version)” text=”[object Selection] Secrets and Lies Word has recently reached our ears that brothers Mark and Ian Munroe (better known as IM Munroe) have decided to make a musical split. While we’re not sure exactly why they have decided to go their separate ways, as anyone who has…
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Dancehall, Roots & Rap
artist: MasSicker | genre: dancehall, reggae | label: unsigned listen now Look Around :: New Millennium Rasta :: Mek Dem Gwaan As part of reggae’s next generation, MasSicker (aka King Mas) draws upon a myriad of influences en route to a melodic sound that blends the best dancehall, roots and hip hop. His rhythmic lyrics…