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Brave Bird’s album Maybe You, No One Else Worth It (Count Your Lucky Stars Records) is a tough sell in a world of 30 second previews. Today a band needs to hook you in that half-minute or less if their tunes [...]
In case you have been living under a rock (or, if you just have dramatically poor taste in music), the electronic indie pop band The Postal Service is on tour again for the first time in ten years. The uber-talented [...]
When discussing great albums, one can pretty much boil everything down into two categories. There are those you can listen to anywhere, anytime and they never lose their luster (for me this would be anything by Thrice, the new Owel album, [...]
Last year, right around the time they were gearing up for Warped Tour, Senses Fail released four new songs as an EP of sorts, that was bundled with their greatest hits (thus far) album, Follow Your Bliss. These tracks proved to [...]
When The Dear Hunter released The Color Spectrum in 2011, much like when Thrice released The Alchemy Index throughout 2007 and 2008, a truly massive and ambitious project was born into the world. Somewhat inevitable, then, was the reality that for each [...]
Quick, think of Silverstein. Did you throw up in your mouth a little? I used to be in exactly the same place, but hear me out – they actually don’t suck all the time. No really, just read this. It’s [...]
By the time Straylight Run released their About Time EP, I had pretty much given up on the band. Like most of my peers, I had a special place in my heart for the melancholic angst parade that was Straylight [...]
It’s staggering how much is wrong with the heavy/hardcore/metal scene these days. In fact, I wrote an entire article about how the current trends amount to slightly less than a steaming pile of bovine excrement. The shitty mash-ups of dance [...]
Following the release of Yanqui U.X.O. in 2002, the Montreal based post-rock band announced to the world that they were going on an indefinite hiatus – the infamous “it’s not you, it’s me” of the music world. They had let us down [...]
About 12 years ago, I had a quasi-friend (they exist, look it up) that I would bounce music recommendations off of and he would in turn do the same. One of his recommendations was the début of a band from Long Island [...]
As regular readers of Type In Stereo will recall, on the heels of two Coheed albums that I didn’t much care for, I was pleasantly surprised by how much I enjoyed Coheed & Cambria’s 2012 release, The Afterman: Ascension. Being [...]
“Sing along if you want. Knowing the words is not required.” Who wouldn’t want to listen to an album with that kind of tagline? After reading that description for Venna by Venna (FVBV – a latinate FUBU?), I assumed that [...]
As I get older, I’ve realized that the old adage, “You can never (truly) go home” is undeniable on so many levels. While you are away, be it months or years, things will change. Friends move away, old haunts go [...]
In the late ’70s, punk gained momentum in popularity and evolved through the ’80s with a wave of hardcore punk bands like Black Flag, Minor Threat, and Bad Religion. Bad Brains soon joined the movement – contradictory to their roots [...]
Move over Parkway Drive. Move over Miles Away. Move over….ok I ran out of Australian hardcore(ish) bands. As someone who has spent his entire life in the States, outside of one trip to India and a couple to Mexico, I [...]
Watch this. Is it good? I don’t know anymore. The 2nd Law, the latest album from the stupefyingly talented Muse, is a complicated piece of work. But, I feel it can be accurately summarised by the video above and the [...]
Only a few short weeks ago, I offered up Gates’ You Are All You Have Left to Fear and Owel’s I’ve Seen Colors (released under Owel’s former band name, Old Nick) as the best albums that 2012 had to offer. I [...]
As many of you may know, I recently picked up my entire life and moved it on out to Austin, Texas. Being originally from Orange County , CA and growing up in the OC hardcore scene, I was able to [...]
What do you get when you cross Dominic Angelella with The Roots producer, Ritz Reynolds? You get DRGN King’s début album, Paragraph Nights. Hailing from Philadelphia (a city currently dominated by Hip-hop, R&B, and electronica) this Bar None Records release joins the indie [...]
Gifts From Enola’s A Healthy Fear, put out by The Mylene Sheath, is something of a quandary – it’s supposedly instrumental music that features vocals with noticeable regularity, an aspect which inherently negates the term “instrumental,” as far as I can [...]
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