Monday, November 7 2011
The Battle to Stay Relevant
Watching your favorite band become irrelevant is like watching Michael Jordan unable to elevate high enough to dunk in his final year in the NBA.
Friday, October 28 2011
Austin City Limits: Dale Earnhardt Jr Jr + Fleet Foxes + Arcade Fire
When you get right down to it, very few bands are truly capable of commanding a festival size crowd and won't be getting any easier, as attention spans get ever shorter.
Austin City Limits: Sunday 18 September 2011
The Arcade Fire reminds us all that nothing is too serious if nothing lasts forever.
Friday, September 2 2011
The 2011 Outside Lands Music Festival: San Francisco
With a wide variety of music coming from five different stages in one of the nation's most beautiful locations, the only problem was trying to catch as many bands as possible.
Tuesday, August 2 2011
Arcade Fire: The Suburbs (Deluxe Edition)
Inspiring everything from undying adulation to knee-jerk backlash, it's the wide array of responses The Suburbs has elicited that offers the greatest testament to how vital it remains.
Wednesday, June 22 2011
Desitively Bonnaroo: Reporting from the Land of Dust and Music (Part 3)
You’re here to see your favorite indie-rock act, and you just so happen to have great representatives from other musical styles to explore as well.
Friday, May 20 2011
Counterbalance No. 34: The Arcade Fire’s ‘Funeral’
Jason Mendelsohn and Eric Klinger got into a fight so that the neighbors could dance in the police disco lights. But since disco is passé, no one showed up. This week in Counterbalance, the Arcade Fire's Funeral.
Monday, April 18 2011
Modern-Indie-College-Alternative Rock for Hipsters (MICAH for Short)
Here's your introduction to MICAH rock, my admittedly cheesy acronym for music that has, at one time or another, been defined as modern, indie, college, alternative, and hipster music.
Monday, March 7 2011
The Year in Music: August 2010
Continuing out look at the year’s most notable events in the world of music, here’s what happened in August 2010.
Friday, February 18 2011
The Myth of The Suburbs Vs. The Reality of the Suburbs
The Arcade Fire's The Suburbs may win Grammys and top year-end lists, but it also perpetuates shallow and uninformed beliefs about its central subject matter.
