Garbage: Strange Little Birds | Boring Nostalgia
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles on the big screen, OJ Simpson on the TV, and Ecto-Cooler in the refrigerator....
Aaron Cooper
The Monkees: Good Times! | So Freakin Happy!
Are The Monkees just as important to secular music as The Beatles or Beach Boys? God no but they are a whole lot of fun to listen to.
PUP Makes Bold Moves on The Dream Is Over
On their sophomore LP, Toronto punk band PUP might be fighting each other, writes Aaron Cooper, but they're fighting society alongside the listener, too.
Surgical Meth Machine: Al Jourgensen Bashes Celebrity Worship
Surgical Meth Machine sees Al Jourgensen toying with both old and new ideas. The album works best as a reminder of how great Ministry once was.
How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love The Magical Mystery Tour
In this revealing piece, Aaron Cooper revisits his relationship with the Beatles' 1967 classic Magical Mystery Tour, and reflects on life's second chances.
Radiohead – A Moon Shaped Pool: Inspired But Not Groundbreaking
It's unreasonable to think Radiohead are going to create another ground breaking album, but A Moon Shaped Pool is still an inspired collection of songs.
Prince: The Brain, The Heart, The Beat
Prince is among the exclusive company of artists who have not only shaped the way we listen to music in general, but the way we feel about our own psyche.
Brother O’ Brother / Riverhorse @ Chicago Street Pub (Joliet IL), March 26th, 2016
Having Brother O' Brother and Riverhorse share a record label would be strange enough, much less the same bill. But something about the night worked.
Is The Joy Formidable’s Hitch the Death of Modern Shoegaze?
The Joy Formidable stripped away their fancy layers to give us what we fell in love with on Hitch, but were they that special in the first place.
Album Review: Bob Mould – Patch The Sky
Bob Mould's Patch The Sky is a fantastic record made up of sophisticated alternative rock song writing, that never sinks into the dreaded "Dad Rock".