Vee Hua 華婷婷A staff-compiled list of some of our favorite songs from the year 2011, in no particular order or with allegiance to any particular style.
Peter WoodburnFucked Up’s release David Comes to Life is a sure bet to end up on many a critical darling’s acclaimed best of 2011 list. The sprawling epic tells the life story of David, a factory worker who falls in love with an activist named...
"For me, it has always been easier to discuss the heavy subjects in song... it gives me an opportunity to immerse myself in it when I don't otherwise normally do that." -- Jordan Dreyer
This probably won’t be the most “professional” review ever — but in my shaky defense, I dare say that previous revisions were even more visceral and less sophisticated than this one… so there’s that. Now onto the...
I’ve never been the biggest fan of magazine-sponsored package tours. A lot of times, the package just doesn’t seem to work out that well for anyone, except for that one weird guy who is the only person in the world that is the biggest...
Orange County band Thrice have certainly come a long way from playing emotive post-hardcore (or screamo) and touring with bands like American Nightmare, Converge, and Bane, to creating interesting and dense straight-ahead rock albums. It’s not...
Theoretically, if beings existing outside of three-dimensional timespace looked down upon the lower dimensions they’d created, micro-entities such as humans might appear to them as little more than a blur — misunderstood pulses of...
Only in a place like Bloomington, Indiana could the subversive mindfuck that is Racebannon continue to churn out their perfectly demented blend of art metal freakitude. It just goes to show how every action has an equal and opposite reaction. Take a...