A Side: Music from North and South America
Slash and The Titans
A Side,May
04, 2010
What do Ozzy, Lemmy, Iggy Pop, Chris Cornell, Kid Rock, and Dave Grohl all have in common? These titans of rock all appear in the debut solo album, the self-titled Slash ...
Vampire Weekend’s Second Album: A good rollercoaster long lines that ended too quickly
A Side,
January 12, 2010
After the success of their debut album American indie band Vampire Weekend look set to once again redefine what we expect from the indie vgenre. Contra, the band’s second album has just ...
Uh Huh Her Is this electropop duo pretty good or pretty plain?
A Side, December 12, 2009
They are hot. That much is undeniable. They are the women you either want to be or want to be with. Meet Uh Huh Her - an electropop duo composed of the stunning blonde Leisha Hailey and the ...
The Drums: The Happy American Indie Band
A-side,
December 4,, 2009
American Indie Band The Drums is all about having fun and their sunny optimism is evident in Summertime! -- a six-song collection that could easily be a soundtrack to any vintage beach party ...
New Album Review: Hsu-nami’s The Four Noble Truths
A-side, November 22, 2009
In Hsu-nami’s second album The Four Noble Truths, the Asian-American band proves that the real test of a group’s music-making philosophy isthe extent of how far the strings can be pulled without ...
Peanut Butter Bets On Hawthorne
A Side, November 16, 2009
American Indie artist Mayer Hawthorne is a singer, songwriter, producer, and multi-instrumentalist from California. His current body of work has had critics and fellow musicians comparing him to ...
Haymaker: The New Grunge Sound
A Side , October 18, 2009
There is one place above all others when you think of grunge music - Seattle. The city that gave us some of the most influential and successful bands of the 90’s is still seen by many as a music ...