Album Reviews

Dance Gavin Dance Acceptance Speech Reviewed by: Nate Adams Dance Gavin Dance has made a living while being progressive in its field. While other screamo bands are content to fall back on genre tropes or disband altogether in the face of their genre’s recession, GDG have doubled Read More

Cage The Elephant Melophobia Reviewed by: Nate Adams It’s not hard to like Cage the Elephant. That’s not a compliment. Three albums in a row, the band has reached for the parts of American rock music that they like best, photocopied them together like a teenager making a flyer Read More

Joan Jett & The Blackhearts Unvarnished Reviewed by: Jane Roser   It’s hard to believe it’s been seven years since Joan Jett’s last record, but it was certainly worth the wait. “Unvarnished”, Jett’s 10th studio album proves that the Read More

The Blind Boys of Alabama I’ll Find a Way Reviewed by: Kathleen Larrick     The Blind Boys of Alabama are iconic. No ensemble exists for 70+ years without that something special that combines historical roots with relevant modern references. Just the track title “There Read More

Quasi Mole City Reviewed by: Lexi Bissonnette     Quasi releases a double album in honor of their 20th year as a band. This 24-track album has a various mix of sounds, track lengths and vocals. The album is a tribute to their past work as well as a basis for some Read More

Amos Lee Mountains of Sorrow, Rivers of Song Reviewed by: Robert Brind     When I first saw Amos Lee he was standing in a crowd on Penn’s Landing’s Festival Pier. This was almost a decade ago at WXPN’s Singer/Songwriter Festival before they changed the Read More