Tagged: album

Open Your Eyes to release Truth or Consequence

The Chicago rock band has been working hard on their new album Truth or Consequence, produced by Brandon Saller of Atreyu. If you are like me, you love Atreyu and this definitely caught my eye. It also helps that their single from the album features Craig Mabbitt from Escape the Fate.  Continue reading →

Review: Heartspace Timepiece by Alejandra O’Leary & the Champions of the West

Album Rating: 7.4/10

Upon first listen, this album may seem nothing special. But Alejandra O’ Leary tells a story with this album. The songs are not clean, some are rough and do not seem to fit, others fit hand-in-hand. These help us get a view inside who O’Leary grew up to be. She moved around when she was young and settled in Detroit, MI., but different styles seem to represent different stages of her life in different cities.


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Review: Liquor Store by Sterile Jets

Album Rating: 3.8

If you are a fan of loud noise, hard rock, punk and drunken grunge, you will be a fan of the Sterile Jets. Most people, in one way or another, care what people say about them. The Sterile Jets do not. A quote from UCLA Radio tells all you need to know about the Sterile Jets.

They were started to fulfill an artistic interpretation of music, Sterile Jets definitely do not care what you think, they will rock one way or another.


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Review: Weird Little Birthday by Happyness

Album Rating: 5.9

With low-key guitar and tin can style vocal, Happyness brings a Wilco and Weezer feel with My Chemical Romance-esk lyrics. The college rock, garage band, slacker rock trio brings a melancholy and “thinly murderous” tone to this album. Happyness has taken the college rock back to the early 90’s.

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Review: Hawks Do Not Share by Hawks Do Not Share

Album Rating: 5.8

Hawks Do Not Share did not start out as an electronic/synth pop band. Originally, when George Lewis III and Jeremy Wilkins started out, when they added Britt White, they were playing entirely different music. HDNS recorded their full length, self-titled album. To give you a sense of their music, it sounds like the electronic undertones from softer Linkin Park songs with the vocals from Imogen Heap.


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Review: Blue Skies for Black Hearts by Blue Skies for Black Hearts

Album Rating: 7.0

Blue Skies for Black Hearts is no light-weight in the world of music. They have been around since 2002 when lead singer Pat Kearns began as a solo artist. Since bringing in the other members, Blue Skies has put out 5, this being the 6th, album. This album was self-titled, as Kearns said,

“it’s the best sound and best songs of anything we have done to date. This new lineup achieved the sound I aimed for when I started this thing thirteen years ago.”

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