The Hold Steady
Boys and Girls in America
Vagrant (2006)
Do you remember being just a small child, rifling your dirty paws through the cereal box trying to fish out the prize at the bottom of the box? No? Okay let's flash forward about ten years; what about when you were sitting at the dinner table thinking how you were going to get those same dirty paws down your boy/girlfriend's pants that night? Most likely your parents were venting about what a mundane day they experienced at their jobs. Almost immediately following their diatribe they offered you a bit of advice, "You know, enjoy it while you're young. It won't be like this forever." Of course it was a suggestion lost on you seeing as you were strategizing on how you'd hope to get lucky that night. Flash Forward another fifteen years into the future. Your nearing thirty, fat, depressed and stuck in a job that pays well enough though it sucks your soul away one board meeting at a time. Somehow you wish you made more of your younger years. On Boys and Girls in America, The Hold Steady reminds of this lesson, only doing so in manner that just might catch our attention this time around. That is, … Read more
She Killed Poetry
Shut Out the Silence
Imagine It (2006)
Mediocrity is not a hard thing to come by in the metalcore genre. In fact, since every metalcore band has … Read more
Across Five Aprils
Collapse
Indianola (2006)
December 14, 1999: Poison the Well's Opposite of December was re-released and marked the end of metallic hardcore as everyone … Read more
The Lillingtons
The Too Late Show
Red Scare (2006)
We're in the middle of a pop punk renaissance. New recruits are signing up left and right and firing off … Read more
230 Divisadero
A Vision Of Lost Unity EP
Milk & Moon (2006)
The year is 1797. You are a sailor. Bound for distant colonies, you awake one morning to find that a … Read more
