Later this week I will reveal my Top 10 albums of 2009. Today I look back to a decade ago and here is a list of my Top 5 albums of 1999. I am sure I missed an emo album or something by Dave Matthews Band, but these are my favorites from that year that I still enjoy listening to today.
1. Modest Mouse - Building Nothing Out Of Something 2. Jimmy Eat World - Clarity 3.
Get Up Kids - Something To Write Home About 4. Built To Spill - Keep It Like A Secret 5. Brandtson - Fallen Star Collection 6.
Sloan - Between The Bridges 7. Red Hot Chili Peppers - Californication 8. Dismemberment Plan - Emergency ....
2:30 Publicity Your Youth is the latest band to join the #90srevival trending topic, touching on the alt-rock influences that seemed so indie-uncool just a year or so back: Weezer, ...
It’s rather an odd feeling interviewing the band who set the soundtrack for my early teenage years. Arriving into my world during an appropriate phase of adolescent angst , my ...
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1:53 a.m. Monday 5th July 2010 EST
I started collecting vinyl January of 2008. 2 years later, here is what I have amassed. (updated June 2010) Listed by era and alphabetically. Newbies (1990s -2000s) American Football American ...
Derron Nuhfer of Gunmoll and Less Than Jake has joined James Austin of Anchor Arms to form Eight Ghosts . The band claims to be influenced by "90's emo bands" ...
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7:30 a.m. Wednesday 2nd June 2010 EST
I started collecting vinyl January of 2008. 2 years later, here is what I have amassed. (updated April 2010) Listed by era and alphabetically. Newbies (1990s -2000s) American Football American ...
Whilst over in the UK for a nationwide sold-out tour, Neil Westfall and Kevin Skaff of A Day To Remember sat down with Alter The Press! before their show at ...
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9 p.m. Monday 15th March 2010 EST
I started collecting vinyl January of 2008. 2 years later, here is what I have amassed. (updated January 2010) Listed by era and alphabetically. Newbies (1990s -2000s) American Football American ...
This year, I have written monthly editions (except for a few months I missed) of my music reviews. Those reviews contain more detailed descriptions of the albums and many included ...
Ranking this many albums is tough, and I'll admit - largely arbitrary in its exactness. So, don't bust my chops on this! Every time I look at it, I move ...
Ranking this many albums is tough, and I'll admit - largely arbitrary in its exactness. So, don't bust my chops on this! Every time I look at it, I move ...
way old school pop mid-week palate cleanser. Yo La Tengo - On our way The Flaming Lips - Suddenly, everything has changed The Dismemberment Plan - The city Built To ...
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8:06 a.m. Friday 13th November 2009 EST
Best Albums of 2009 October Edition Rather than compiling a huge list at the end of the year, not having enough time to do a good job, and simply throwing ...
Best Albums of 2009 October Edition Rather than compiling a huge list at the end of the year, not having enough time to do a good job, and simply throwing ...
I started collecting vinyl January of 2008. 2 years later, here is what I have amassed. (updated January 2010) Newbies (1990s -2000s) American Football American Football Andrew Bird Armchair Apocrypha ...
Every year the Soundwave Festival gets bigger and better. Come February 2010, Soundwave will once again play host to some of the finest alternative, hard-rock, punk acts in this universe. ...
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10:08 a.m. Friday 14th August 2009 EST
What is and what isn’t ‘emo’ is the subject of much debate on playgrounds across the country, and far further beyond; what’s a fact is that the genre has mutated, ...
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2:19 a.m. Friday 31st July 2009 EST
Cymbals Eat Guitars Why There Are Mountains (2009, Self-Released) RIYL = Paper Airplanes, Evangelicals, Pavement Based on the band name and album cover alone, I was expecting something totally different ...
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1:22 a.m. Wednesday 20th May 2009 EST
Two weeks ago, I caught an acoustic show by The Academy Is... —well, really just lead singer/songwriter William Beckett —along with hundreds of adoring teenagers, some of whom were camped ...
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midnight Saturday 28th March 2009 EST
Imagine that a ton of your favorite post-hardcore bands from the late 90’s got together and formed one band with a decidedly San Diego feel (think Jehu and the like) ...
Contributor Mike Bailey enjoys talking about records from yesteryear -- the 70's, 80's and 90's -- that influenced what's happening today. Thus, Gold Soundz was born. (Props to Pavement for ...
Published by Stark Online
midnight Tuesday 27th January 2009 EST
First, let me apologize to Mr. Eric Grubbs. This article (and the accompanying commentary tracks) should have been posted over a month ago and I just haven’t gotten around to ...