Review of Big Sean’s “Finally Famous”

G.O.O.D. Music definitely has lived up to its name for a couple of years now. Founder Kanye West’s My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy was named the best album of 2010 by many, and the best in Mr. West’s career. Kid Cudi’s Man on the Moon II: The Legend of Mr. Rager, although receiving mixed reviews, […]

Review of Taking Back Sunday’s New Album

If you know anything about Taking Back Sunday, you know that their line-up has never truly stayed the same. From early on with Jesse Lacey (now fronting Brand New) to Fred Mascherino (fronting The Color Fred and Terrible Things), TBS has had 11 different members, with only three constants through each release (singer Adam Lazzara, […]

Review of All Time Low’s “Dirty Work”

Baltimore pop-punk quartet All Time Low has been through a lot since their creation in 2003. Their first single on Hopeless Records, “Coffee Shop Soundtrack,” was poised to bring them up to the prime time punk scene, where was already being dominated by bands like Fall Out Boy and ATL’s inspiration, blink-182. It didn’t break […]

Review of The Dear Hunter’s “The Color Spectrum”

Why are concept albums hard to sell? Is it because the stories that the artists/bands try to portray through their music either gets lost in the delivery? Is it because most of the concept albums are made by bands with either little to no audience, or that the audiences just don’t want to invest the […]

Review of The Book of Mormon Recording

I should’ve known better. Once I heard that Trey Parker and Matt Stone, creators of such profane entertainment including Team America: World Police and South Park, were going to release a Broadway musical, I said to myself, “Maybe they can make a tasteful show.” Parker and Stone have already garnered an Oscar nomination in 2000 […]

Review of Foster The People’s “Torches”

When someone talks about the “Summer Album of the Year,” they usually are talking about someone like Katy Perry, Lil Wayne, or, for the sake of relativity, Lady Gaga. However, there are a couple of gems that shine out from the typical radio songs that get completly overplayed. Last year, it was Neon Trees who […]

Review of Raphael Saadiq’s “Stone Rollin'”

I remember when I was little; I would be in the car with my parents and would listen to KHITS 96 FM, listening to a great era of music, including The Beatles, Boston, Queen, and James Brown. I remember bobbing my head to his hits, like “I Got You (I Feel Good)” and “Get Up […]

Review of Manchester Orchestra’s “Simple Math”

Alternative music has never stopped evolving. From the punk of the 80’s, to today’s emo-screamo-killthemall type of headbanging clutter, the alternative scene always tries to move forward, although it does take some misteps (do not listen to Brokencyde aka the worst excuse of music I have ever heard). This past winter, one of the most […]