If you’re looking for prime pop punk or rock music, most people think of Green Day or Fall Out Boy. They think of strong guitar and poignant but rebellious lyrics intertwining all while the drum beats at one-hundred miles an…
Best Songs for Spring
Winter weather is slowly departing and the snow is finally thawing away. Spring is now coming into full swing, and it’s bringing new music! Many of us need a playlist update to wipe away the groggy winter blues. So far…
Album Review: The Shins – “Heartworms”
The Shins were a mid-‘00s success story, with their song “New Slang” pushing the band to success after it was featured in the movie Garden State. Jumping into their latest album Heartworms made me nervous – would it finally bring them…
Music Feature: Top Ten Epic Elvis Songs
When you hear the name Elvis Presley, you think of a larger-than-life star rightly nicknamed “The King of Rock and Roll.” Girls swooned and pined for him, and at his concerts, they would announce that “Elvis has left the building!”…
Lana Del Rey releases new single “Love”
Lana Del Rey is back, out with a new single that screams retro chic. We haven’t heard much since her album Honeymoon, but the music in that album was able to tide fans over. “Love” is a euphonic, vintage song…
Album Review: The Sadies – “Northern Passages”
Listening to Northern Passages, the fourth album from Toronto indie rockers The Sadies, you would think that you were in the 1960’s. It’s a wistful and melancholy sound that envelops you as songs whisk by in a psychedelic and indie rock…
From the Record Crate: Al Green – “Let’s Stay Together” (1972)
Al Green’s album Let’s Stay Together is celebrating its 45th anniversary this year, and we’re taking a look into the songs that shot him to fame and into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. The smooth toned soul singer…
