Introduction
Sparking my interest for being ranked #6 on the top Shoegaze albums page on Rate Your Music, The Texas-Jerusalem Crossroads is a concept album of post, indie, Christian, and rock-shoegaze, released on June 26, 2001. This is a full analysis and review of the music, concept, and history on one of the most unique pieces of music I've head.
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"Desperation is sometimes as powerful an inspirator as Genius," said former British Prime Minister Benjamin Disraeli.
By 2004, Green Day, what one writer called "the elder statesmen for the punk rock genre" was in such a moment of desperation. True, they had rocked the world with their stellar Kerplunk, Dookie, Nimrod, and Warning albums, but they were running out of steam...
Kaskade
Atmosphere Album Review
Ultra Records
Released September 10, 2013
Genre: House, Progressive House, Electro House, Deep House, EDM
Atmosphere is the newest and seventh album from arguably the best DJ/Producer to come out of the United States. With the EDM scene dominated by wild bass drops and mammoth synth chords, I’m honestly refreshed by this album. Kaskade sticks to his guns and his origins with...
A couple weekends ago was the inaugural Suburbia Music Festival in Plano, Texas. The festival came about when promoters from the concert powerhouse Live Nation saw a need for a large festival in a suburban area, and saw Plano as the perfect spot. Specifically what drew them was Oak Point Park and Nature Reserve in Plano. An employee who frequently...
The Gaslight Anthem
Get Hurt Album Review
Island Records
Released August 12, 2014
Genre: Punk Rock, Rock n’ Roll, Bar Band
As their careers progress, bands change depending on the direction that they want to go, but that doesn’t mean that they get worse. The Gaslight Anthem is no exception. On “Get Hurt,” the New Brunswick, New Jersey, rock ‘n roll/punk band’s newest release,...
The Sons of Hermann Hall is a curious place. On the outside, it looks like an ancient home, with peeling paint and foggy windows. Even the first floor, which contains the bar and restrooms, maintains a bonafide vintage feel. There’s pool, a water fountain, and some other bar games; there’s also a fully stacked snack bar for people who...
Last month, over seven years since the last entry in "Tha Carter" series by prolific rapper Lil Wayne and three years since his last studio project, the New Orleans native released "Tha Carter V." After a four-year legal battle with his former label, Wayne dropped the album to much hype. The release date even made the notoriously egotistical Kanye...
What is the definition of Emo? Is it the musical embodiment of Hot Topic stores? Is it, perhaps, an onomatopoeia, because the word "emo" sounds like a whine? Is it a word that MTV just made up? Is it a word that people just made up? Is it even a thing?
Honestly, I have no idea. I just know that...
