Radio Show Playlist for 6/25/11

Hour 1
"Joker and the Thief" - Wolfmother - Wolfmother
"The Fixer" - Pearl Jam - Backspacer
"Shackler's Revenge" - Guns N Roses - Chinese Democracy
"Wasteland" - Trapt - Only Through the Pain
"Our Perfect Disease" - The Wombats - This Modern Glitch
"Blue Monday" - Orgy - Candyass
"Sick of You" - Cake - Showroom of Compassion
"The '59 Sound" - The Gaslight Anthem - The '59 Sound
"Ball and Chain" - Social Distortion - Social Distortion
"You" - TV on the Radio - Nine Types of Light
"Ava Adore" - Smashing Pumpkins - Adore
"Only Happy When It Rains" - Garbage - Garbage

Radio Show Playlist for 6/18/11

Hour 1
"The Sharpest Lives" - My Chemical Romance - The Black Parade
"Again" - Flyleaf - Memento Mori
"Lie to Me (Denial)" - Red - Until We Have Faces
"Your Surrender" - Neon Trees - Habits
"But It's Better If You Do" - Panic! at the Disco - A Fever You Can't Sweat Out
"Nevermind" - Unwritten Law - Swan
"Deadbolt" - Thrice - The Illusion of Safety
"Four" - Lit - A Place in the Sun
"The Red" - Chevelle - Wonder What's Next
"If You Wanna" - The Vaccines - What Did You Expect from the Vaccines?
"Spanish Moss" - Against Me - White Crosses
"Lost Art of Keeping a Secret" - Queens of the Stone Age - Rated R

Album Review: Sparks the Rescue- Worst Thing I've Been Cursed With (2011)

If there were a Mount Rushmore of the men and women who have been most influential or successful in American film, Clint Eastwood would undoubtably have his mug etched in the stone. From signature lines in his cowboy movies to branching out on roles he made into his own, to becoming a wonderful producer, director, and writer, Eastwood has been around longer than most of our parents have been alive. Sadly, however, this review for Sparks the Rescue's second full-length album Worst Thing I've Been Cursed With, won't compare the band's versatility and inventiveness to Eastwood's sterling film reprtoire. Instead, Worst Thing can be closely examined using Eastwood's (possibly) defining film, The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly.

Album Review: Balance and Composure- Separation (2011)

Before I get into the specific, intricate ways in which Separation, the debut full-length album from Doylestown, PA's Balance and Composure is a soaring, magnificent modern-rock melting pot of sound, there may be an easier way for me to do it: go to the bottom of this review, and look at the "Recommended if you rock" section. The reason I had you do this is twofold: one, to draw your attention to the section itself, which will hopefully make you go buy the album, like, right now (don't worry, this review will be here later), and two, because I know what I'm doing. You may think I sound crazy, comparing it to two of the most-respected indie-rock acts today and one of the titans of the game for the last decade, but that is simply the lasting effect Balance and Composure are poised to have. The band's debut (and I can't stress that enough, this is their debut full-length album) shows that this is by far one of the most promising acts in however-you-label-it rock.

Radio Show Playlist for 6/11/11

Hour 1
"Shine" - Aiden - Disguises
"War" - Poets of the Fall - Twilight Theater
"Sex on Fire" - Kings of Leon - Only by the Night
"Crack the Shutters" - Snow Patrol - A Hundred Million Suns
"Take Me Over" - Cut Copy - Zonoscope
"Intervention" - Arcade Fire - Neon Bible
"Don't Tread on Me" - 311 - Don't Tread on Me
"Mountain Song" - Jane's Addiction - Nothing's Shocking
"Pararelevant" - The Get Up Kids - There Are Rules
"I Don't Want to See You Like This" - The Joy Formidable - The Big Roar
"The Trouble with Angels" - Filter - The Trouble with Angels
"Tick Tick Boom" - The Hives - The Black and White Album

Radio Show Playlist for 6/4/11

Hour 1
"Forced to Love" - Broken Social Scene - Forgiveness Rock Record
"Tonight, Tonight" - Smashing Pumpkins - Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness
"Four Letter Word" - Beady Eye - Different Gear, Still Speeding
"Personal Jesus" - Depeche Mode - Violator
"Discoverer" - R.E.M. - Collapse Into Now
"Thrash Unreal" - Against Me! - New Wave
"Hide" - Yellowcard - When You're Through Thinking, Say Yes
"Grey Street" - Dave Matthews Band - Busted Stuff
"Candlelight" - Relient K - Forget and Not Slow Down
"Made for You" - OneRepublic - Waking Up
"Rox in the Box" - The Decemberists - The King is Dead
"Miserable" - Lit - A Place in the Sun