Vampire Weekend Modern Vampires of the City Reviewed by Jason Sendaula     With their third album, Vampire Weekend is hoping to pick up where they left off from their sophomore release Contra. A triumph among bands who have found recent success, a second album that was Read More

by Christian Pezzino Fans of the trance-fusion band The Disco Biscuits have entered a serious dry spell in recent years, subsisting entirely off of a few brief runs sprinkled through the northeast, Colorado and Mexico. Fortunately, Electron has interrupted this drought Friday Read More

Burnt Ones You’ll Never Walk Alone Reviewed by Michele Zipkin You’ll Never Walk Alone is San Francisco-based Burnt Ones’ second album, but the first they co-wrote as a three piece group.  Drummer Amy Crouch and bassist Brian Allen merely joined vocalist Mark Tester in Read More

by Jessica Dooley New bands are, no doubt, a dime a dozen. They form in garages the world over, uploading fragmented and ill-produced demo records to the net like some never ending form of musical spam. Few musicians truly seem born to do what they’re doing, which is far from the Read More

by Jessica Nguyen Once in a while there is an musical artist with such a talent that it makes you step out of your normal musical comfort zone and explore their world. Sara Syms is one of those artists, one who makes you turn off your regular play list and try something new. One Read More

Pistol Annies Annie Up Reviewed by Jane Roser     Several words and phrases come to mind when listening to any song by the Pistol Annies: sassy, feisty, tarty, the devil made me do it. Debuting on the Academy of Country Music’s Girls Night Out: Superstar Women of Read More