Radio Show Playlist for 3/26/11

Hour 1
"Aberdeen" - Cage the Elephant - Thank You, Happy Birthday
"Summer Hair = Forever Young" - The Academy Is... - Fast Times at Barrington High
"Bones" - Radiohead - The Bends
"Attitude" - Alien Ant Farm - ANThology
"19-2000" - Gorillaz - Gorillaz
"Red Flag" - Billy Talent - Billy Talent II
"Jejune Stars" - Bright Eyes - The People's Key
"The Carpel Tunnel of Love" - Fall Out Boy - Infinity on High
"What You Know" - Two Door Cinema Club - Tourist History
"Screaming Infidelities" - Dashboard Confessional - The Places You Have Come to Fear the Most
"Away From Here" - The Enemy - We'll Live and Die in These Towns
"Break Your Little Heart" - All Time Low - Nothing Personal

Radio Show Playlist for 3/19/11

Hour 1
"When It All Goes Wrong Again" - Everclear - Songs from an American Movie, Vol. 2: Good Time for a Bad Attitude
"Desperate Graves" - Mars Volta - Octahedron
"Get What You Need" - Jet - Get Born
"Waiting" - Red Jumpsuit Apparatus - Don't You Fake It
"Well Enough Alone" - Chevelle - Vena Sera
"Thank You - Drive By - A Delicate Situation
"Holding On" - Simple Plan - Simple Plan
"Zebra" - Beach House - Teen Dream
"Loser" - 3 Doors Down - The Better Life
"Abra Cadaver" - The Hives - Tyrannosaurus Hives
"Change" - The Young Veins - Take a Vacation!
"What's My Age Again?" - Blink-182 - Enema of the State

Album Review: Yellowcard- When You're Through Thinking, Say Yes (2011)

Say the words "April 2008" to any Yellowcard fan, and you'll be opening a can of worms you wish you didn't come anywhere near. When the band said in an interview they were going on an "indefinite hiatus" after a short acoustic tour, it sent shockwaves of sadness through the hearts of fans the band once helped to mend with their uplifting, catchy blend of pop-punk and straight-up rick. Two years later, after they saw bands like The Maine, Mayday Parade, and countless others saturate the summertime pop-punk they revolutionized, the band were done focusing on their personal lives, and it was time to re-emerge and attempt to take back the throne they left vacant that fateful April. Now, a short eight months after the official announcement of their reformation (that was on August 1, 2010), the band have wasted no time in coming out with new material as a reward for their fans' patience. But is When You're Through Thinking, Say Yes going to be able to satisfy fans waiting over four years since 2007's Paper Walls, or will it just leave fans longing for the band's pre-hiatus glory days?

Album Review: Rise Against- Endgame (2011)

Complacency in today's music industry has become far too common, with far too many perfect examples: Lady GaGa's "Born this Way" is a Madonna rip-off; You can't listen to a Ke$ha song and tell whether it was on Animal or Cannibal; And then there's the whole over-saturated heap of junk that Nickelback loosely call a "career." The point is, when success is achieved, its really, really easy to get comfortable with where you are. Rise Against may have fallen victim to that horrendous disease, as Appeal to Reason was viewed by fans to be their least-inspired work. Sure, songs like "Savior" and "Long Forgotten Sons" were standouts that entered the band's already bolstered plethora of quality tracks, but the key criticism of Appeal was that the band was trying too hard to make a statement against the world. Now, enter Endgame: the return to form everyone should have seen coming.

Radio Show Playlist for 3/12/11

Hour 1
"Hammerhead" - The Offspring - Rise and Fall, Rage and Grace
"I Feel So" - Box Car Racer - Box Car Racer
"Sound of a Gun" - Audioslave - Revelations
"Hard to Explain" - The Strokes - Is This It?
"Where Do We Go From Here" - Filter - The Amalgamut
"Ad Hominem" - Bad Religion - The Dissent of Man
"Best of You" - Foo Fighters - In Your Honour
"You and Me" - Attack! Attack! - Attack! Attack!
"Stupid Girl" - Cold - Year of the Spider
"Devour" - Disturbed - Believe
"You Overdid It Doll" - The Courteeners - Falcon
"Wake Up" - Framing Hanley - A Promise to Burn

Happy 311 Day!

Since I was reminded by a few people, happy 311 Day!  And now for your enjoyment, some 311 songs to get you through the rest of the day and into the weekend.  Enjoy!



Upcoming Albums for the Week of 3/8/11

Welcome to the first installment of what hopefully will be a weekly tradition of informing YOU, the reader, on all the great and wonderful new music that gets released each and every week.  Below you will see albums that are due out either today or later in the week.  Well, without further adieu, here is the list!

Radio Show Playlist for 3/5/11

"Song Title" - Artist - Album



Hour 1

"So Far Away" - Staind - 13 Shades of Grey

"Get Over It" - OK Go - OK Go

"I Stand Alone" - Godsmack - Faceless

"Hands Down" - Dashboard Confessional - A Mark, a Mission, a Brand, a Scar

"Filthy Beasts" - Gatsby's American Dream - Gatsby's American Dream

"Only Ashes" - Something Corporate - North

"Feed the Machine" - Red - Until We Have Faces

"Standing Ovation" - Good Charlotte - Cardiology
"Before I Forget" - Slipknot - Vol. 3: The Subliminal Verses
"My Heroine" - Silverstein - Discovering the Waterfront
"My Best Friend" - Hot Hot Heat - Happiness Ltd.
"Signals Over the Air" - Thursday - War All the Time

Album Review: Linkin Park - A Thousand Suns (2010)

Linkin Park's newest album, A Thousand Suns, was one of the most anticipated albums of 2010.  Their previous release, Minutes to Midnight, was met with a positive reception, and a double platinum certification from the RIAA.  They also released a song for the Transformers 2: Rise of the Fallen soundtrack "New Divide" which was also met with a favorable response.

So all signs point to this being quite possibly being the greatest Linkin Park album ever, possibly even surpassing Hybrid Theory, right?

Album Review: Cage the Elephant - Thank You, Happy Birthday (2011)

Cage the Elephant released their second album this year, Thank You, Happy Birthday.  I didn't really know much of Cage the Elephant except Ain't No Rest for the Wicked which debuted sometime in 2008.

Album Review: Bayside - Killing Time (2011)

You can say your favorite band has gone through a lot to get to where they are, and chances are you're right. But that's likely nothing to what Bayside have had to endure on the way to the top of the punk-rock scene. After a horrible van accident claimed the life of their drummer Jon "Beatz" Holoman, Bayside pressed on in his honor, and have put out solid effort after solid effort while tirelessly touring the globe to assert themselves as worthy of their self-proclaimed "Cult" of fans. While 2008's Shudder was considered by some to be their least-loved release (you can't call any Bayside release bad, after all), how would their new album, and first released on Wind-Up Records, stand up to a discography already lined with classic anthems?