Arts

Album Review: New Chain

January 1, 1970 Primary Administrator 0

Falling into the chillwave category—a genre almost jokingly coined by Carles, the primary voice of Hipster Runoff, a blog that simultaneously pokes fun at and promotes hipster trends—is easy for an electronic-based band to do. […]

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Album Review: Bipolar

January 1, 1970 Primary Administrator 0

Weapons of Audio is different, to say the least. There has been party rap before. There have even been rap groups that used live bands for both recording and performing. But even still, Weapons of […]

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C’mon

January 1, 1970 Primary Administrator 0

Listening to Low’s latest album, C’mon, gives you the sense of driving through the desert at night, following your headlights down an empty road as the stars burn with silent intensity above you. It’s the […]

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Fishing for Woos

January 1, 1970 Primary Administrator 0

It’s ironic that in their new al­bum Fishing for Woos, Bowling for Soup frontman Jaret Reddick makes a direct reference to Weezer—recent critical reception for the two bands is, essentially, interchangeable. Both bands are led […]

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Album Review: Strange Veins

January 1, 1970 Primary Administrator 0

Sealions, a local electro-pop act which self-released its first full-length album, Strange Veins, on Oct. 9, is bringing the dance-demanding nature of upbeat ‘80s New Wave jams back. The four-piece band of Atlantans—Jason Travis (vocals, […]

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Album Review: False Priest

January 1, 1970 Primary Administrator 0

It’s difficult to think of a band with a more consistently engaging output than Athens-bred Of Montreal. For more than a decade, they have been able to explore and master genres from simple, sparse love […]

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