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Alanis Morissette’s ‘Jagged Little Pill’ Turns 20

By Harris posted June 10, 2015 at 09:32 Truth About Music

Sometimes it all starts with a chord played on an electric guitar. In this case, it’s a B flat, fading away into the fullness of the band and more importantly, one woman’s voice. 20 years ago this week, Alanis Morissette’s Jagged Little Pill hit store shelves across America, changing the landscape of the ’90s music scene for the better. Continue...
Harris’ Song of the Week: ‘Breaking Up My Bones’ by Vinyl Theatre

By Harris posted April 07, 2015 at 11:06 Truth About Music

There are moments in music when you don’t need to have the most original sound, but instead the right sound at the right time. There’s something special about summer creeping in along with this song. Vinyl Theatre haven’t reinvented the wheel with “Breaking Up My Bones,” the first single from their 2014 EP Electrogram. Continue...
Movie Trailer Breakdown: Spring 2014

By Harris posted April 01, 2015 at 08:45 Truth About Music

Now that the awards season has come to an end, we can start looking forward to huge summer blockbusters and indie films that slipped through the cracks of 2014 and find themselves on the early slate for 2015. To make this a little easier, we are now going to include the trailers themselves in our breakdown! Continue...
Review: Good Old War Reunited & It Feels So Good

By Harris posted March 31, 2015 at 11:22 Truth About Music

The smile that stretched from ear to ear across Dan Schwartz’s face says it all. This band loves the music they create and are thrilled to be back at it after a two year break. As the band dove right into fan favorite “Coney Island,” the energy in the intimate venue was rising by the minute and that same smile that Schwartz had the entire night seemed to become infectious. By the end of the first song, the entire crowd was feeling the same way. Continue...
Beautiful Machines “Real Love”

By Kevin posted March 30, 2015 at 19:22 Indies And The Underground

Based in San Francisco, Beautiful Machines draw on electro pop as well as the darkly romantic yearnings of new wave icons like Depeche Mode to create a sound that is both larger than life and intensely personal. Continue...
Review: Mr Saturday Night and The Ellusive Scene

By Sean posted March 27, 2015 at 09:00 Play It Loud

The great fallacy of New York’s glorified “Bad Old Days” is the idea that everyone involved in that legendary artistic renaissance devoted every waking moment to it’s enrichment. Yes, many of the artists were living hand to mouth, but the fans, friends and general “scene” around those various movements were usually working folk who just tapped into a moment. The man waving his hands in the air at the command of DJ Kool Herc might have worked as a repair man, the young woman losing herself in the club experiments at The Paradise Garage could have been a telephone operator. While it’s true that Manhattan was unfathomably cheaper and grittier than today’s sanitized playground, the idea that the whole island was some kind of anarchist collective does a disservice to the men and women who found time during their working week to support their favorite artists. Continue...
Triple Take: The Futureheads

By Sean posted February 25, 2015 at 11:54 Play It Loud

It may be too early to start forming definitive opinions yet, but I believe the mid-00’s will be remembered as the greatest era of “Indie Rock”. Much the same way that time has revealed the early to mid 90’s as the true golden age of hip-hop, the mid 00’s gave us an almost embarrassing abundance of great Indie Rock. From The Shins to Sufjan Stevens to TV On The Radio, there were many great musicians working at their peak during that 4-5 year stretch. That period was so flooded with great Indie that many excellent artists and albums simply fell through the cracks, their releases lost in the sea of great music. The Futureheads are one of those bands. Continue...
87th Academy Award Winners – A Complete List

By Harris posted February 20, 2015 at 17:22 Truth About Music

The Academy Awards will take place this Sunday and as with every year, as it comes down to crunch time it’s getting harder and harder to pick the winners. A few months ago, Birdman would have been the clear favorite to take home a huge amount of awards but now that seems very uncertain. Since the Golden Globes, The Grand Budapest Hotel and The Theory of Everything have made an incredible push for the nights top honors. Here are my picks and some commentary to set the stage for Sunday’s awards ceremony. Winners are noted in bold below. Continue...
Future Brown Share Free DJ Mix

By Kevin posted February 17, 2015 at 19:35

Future Brown have been setting dancefloors ablaze with “Wanna Party,” featuring Timbaland protege Tink. Now the NYC-based foursome are further ingratiating themselves with club heads by sharing a DJ mix. Continue...
Tori Amos Shares Cover of Nirvana’s ‘Smells Like Teen Spirit’

By Kevin posted February 17, 2015 at 18:59

Tori Amos is nothing if not ambitious. The legendary singer-songwriter is set to release deluxe editions of her debut and sophomore albums Little Earthquakes and Under The Pink. Continue...