As I sit here feeling down and dejected from the Capitals round two exit of the Stanley Cup Playoffs, I figured I’d shift the focus to the left coast and LA (by way of Ventura) based Captions and their track “Bearfight”. I actually found this track via the awesome Buzzbands.LA, which I check pretty regularly. [...]

If you scour the web looking for the lowest of the lo-fi rock jams, this is about as lo-fi as it gets. Slam Donahue is a Brooklyn three piece who specialize in taking expansion and making it…less expansive. Take the catchy “How To Be Cool” for example – if this was the gas pump then [...]

There’s plenty of awesome bands with Ghost in their name. There’s also lots of awesome bands with Beach in their name. What happens when you combine the two into Ghost Beach? Apparently some tropical flavored indie rock, if “Miracle” is any indication. This track is summer tinged, spiced and packaged from the lo-fi guitar intros [...]

When I hit play on “Go To Sleep”, I think about basement jams. Our favorite bands all begin this way (for the most part) and if they survive, they eventually evolve into polished studio and touring acts that we typically turn on like a letter high fastball in the fat part of the plate. Why [...]

After a recent divergence, it’s time to go back to the wheelhouse and bring you some more golden indie rock. Twinkling guitars wedded with some wild synths abound in “Automocar”, the very first track I have ever heard from The Danks. I received their album in my inbox more than two weeks ago, yet I [...]

I’m not a down tempo musical connoisseur. Not at all. I like my music upbeat in some form or fashion; whether that be in the rhythm, the melody, or the message, it’s just my preference. Middle school to high school was an unending and inescapable maze of dark songs, depressing lyrics, and general mopeheaded-ness (editor’s [...]

Last night, I watched what had to be the most absolutely gut wrenching loss of the season for the Washington Capitals. Here I am, jazzed (yet nervous), and Joel Ward draws a four minute major penalty with 21 seconds remaining. All the Caps have to do is keep the Rangers out of the net in [...]