Radio Show Playlist for 8/20/11

Hour 1
"I'm Not Over" - Carolina Liar - Coming to Terms
"Burn the Witch" - Queens of the Stone Age - Lullabies to Paralyze
"Numb" - The Airborne Toxic Event - All at Once
"Never Take Friendship Personal" - Anberlin - Never Take Friendship Personal (REQUESTED)
"Louder Than Ever" - Cold War Kids - Mine is Yours
"Gravemakers and Gunslingers" - Coheed and Cambria - Good Apollo, I'm Burning Star IV, Volume Two: No World for Tomorrow
"Unspoken" - Lacuna Coil - Comalies
"Satellite" - The Kills - Blood Pressures
"High Pressure Low" - Against Me! - White Crosses
"Wicked World" - Cold - Superfiction
"The Foreboding Sense of Impending Happiness" - HIM - Screamworks: Love in Theory and Practice
"Deep Enough" - Live - V

Radio Show Playlist for 8/13/11

Hour 1
"Reckless Abandonment" - The Spill Canvas - No Really, I'm Fine
"So Long, Astoria" - The Ataris - So Long, Astoria
"Running Out of Time" - Hot Hot Heat - Elevator
"Any Other Heart" - Go Radio - Lucky Street
"Come Out and Play (Keep 'em Seperated)" - The Offspring - Smash
"Solo Impala" - The Fashion - The Fashion
"Punk Rock Princess" - Something Corporate - Leaving Through the Window
"Rise from the Ashes" - Quietdrive - When All That's Left is You
"Do What You Want" - OK Go - Oh No
"Bang the Doldrums" - Fall Out Boy - Infinity on High
"Diamond in the Rough" - Social Distortion - Hard Times and Nursery Rhymes
"Loser" - Beck - Mellow Gold

Radio Show Playlist for 8/6/11

Hour 1
"Becoming the Bull" - Atreyu - Lead Sails, Paper Anchors
"Sillyworld" - Stone Sour - Come What(ever) May
"Sick, Sick, Sick" - Bayside - Killing Time
"Rider" - Okkervil River - I Am Very Far
"When It Dies" - The Get Up Kids - There Are Rules
"Buy Nothing Day" - The Go! Team - Rolling Blackouts
"The Fantasy" - 30 Seconds to Mars - A Beautiful Lie
"The Hardest Mile" - Dropkick Murphys - Going Out in Style
"Another Love Song" - Queens of the Stone Age - Songs for the Deaf
"White Rabbit" - Egypt Central - White Rabbit
"Splinter" - Sevendust - Cold Day Memory
"Woman" - Wolfmother - Wolfmother

Radio Show Playlist for 7/30/11

Hour 1
"Flavor of the Weak" - American Hi-Fi - American Hi-Fi
"Hash Pipe" - Weezer - The Green Album
"I Did It" - Dave Matthews Band - Everyday
"The Rock Show" - Blink-182 - Take Off Your Pants and Jacket
"Million Miles Away" - The Offspring - Conspiracy of One
"Understanding (in a Car Crash)" - Thursday - Full Collapse
"New Born" - Muse - Origin of Symmetry
"Crawling" - Linkin Park - Hybrid Theory
"Duck and Run" - 3 Doors Down - The Better Life
"Alive" - P.O.D. - Satellite
"Fat Lip" - Sum 41 - All Killer, No Filler
"Screaming Infidelities" - Dashboard Confessional - The Places You Have Come to Fear the Most

Radio Show Playlist for 7/23/11

Hour 1
"Under Fire" - Halifax - The Inevitability of a Strange World
"I Don't Need a Soul" - Relient K - Forget and Not Slow Down
"Eyes Wide Open" - Rival Schools - Pedals
"Hands Open" - Snow Patrol - Eyes Open
"Sleep" - The Dodos - No Color
"Step Out of the Car" - The Boxer Rebellion - The Cold Still
"All That's Left" - Thrice - The Artist and the Ambulance
"Journal for Plague Lovers" - Manic Street Preachers - Journal for Plague Lovers
"Stay With Me" - You Me at Six - Hold Me Down
"Beat the Devil's Tattoo" - Black Rebel Motorcycle Club - Beat the Devil's Tattoo
"Get Thru This" - Art of Dying - Vices and Virtues
"The Same Space" - Klaxons - Surfing the Void

Album Review: Gorillaz - The Fall (2011)

 

Yup.  I'm pretty sure a lot of people just realized that last year, the Gorillaz came out with their 3rd album Plastic Beach and you must be surprised that there is NEW MUSIC still coming out from the band that's been touring since Plastic Beach came out.  Well, guess what?  There is.  Although technically this album came out on Christmas 2010, it wasn't available as a physical copy or released to the general public until April.  So what should you expect?

Radio Show Playlsit for 7/16/11

Hour 1
"Metalingus" - Alter Bridge - One Day Remains
"Development" - Nonpoint - Development
"Just Because" - Jane's Addiction - Strays
"Before I Forget" - Slipknot - Vol. 3: (The Subliminal Verse)
"Almost There" - Trust Company - Dreaming in Black and White
"Got Jealous" - Hurt - Goodbye to the Machine
"Remedy" - Seether - Karma and Effect
"A Portrait of the Artist" - Aiden - Disguises
"Just Got Wicked" - Cold - 13 Ways to Bleed on Stage
"Austere" - The Joy Formidable - The Big Roar
"Heaven's a Lie" - Lacuna Coil - Comalies
"Another Way to Die" - Disturbed - Asylum

Radio Show Playlist for 7/9/11

Hour 1
"Uprising" - Muse - The Resistance
"Misery" - Good Charlotte - Good Morning Revival
"Success" - Interpol - Interpol
"You Don't Understand Me" - The Raconteurs - Consolers of the Lonely
"Oh My Heart" - R.E.M. - Collapse into Now
"One Step at a Time" - Four Year Strong - Enemy of the World
"Shiver" - Coldplay - Parachutes
"After Hours" - We Are Scientists - Brain Thrust Mastery
"Unconditional" - The Bravery - The Bravery
"Where Were You" - Every Avenue - Shhh, Just Go With It
"Given the Chance" - The Starting Line - Say It Like You Mean It
"Thank You" - Drive-By - A Delicate Situation

Radio Show Playlist for 7/2/11

Hour 1
"Bounce" - The Cab - Whisper War
"Rock My Body" - The Higher - On Fire
"Rainy Monday" - Shiny Toy Guns - We Are Pilots
"Give Up the Ghost" - Radiohead - The King of Limbs
"Rock Rebellion" - Bang Camaro - Bang Camaro
"White Sky" - Vampire Weekend - Contra
"Sam's Town" - The Killers - Sam's Town
"Shake Me Down" - Cage the Elephant - Thank You, Happy Birthday
"Everlasting Light" - The Black Keys - Brothers
"Smokers Outside the Hospital Doors" - Editors - An End Has a Start
"Ode to Solitude" - HIM - Screamworks: Love in Theory and Practice
"No World for Tomorrow" - Coheed and Cambria - Good Apollo, I'm Burning Star IV, Volume Two: No World for Tomorrow

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

Album Review: Fireworks- Gospel (2011)

Developing and maturing as a band can be really, really tricky: on the one hand, you have bands like A Day to Remember, who seem to be on the cusp of abandoning their genericore breakdowns and accepting their destiny as the next great radio-rock band, but on the other, you have bands like Green Day and Against Me! who lose their creative flame and create albums that their fans can't even recognize as the same band they fell in love with many moons ago. Meanwhile, in the sweaty church basements and legion halls of America, Fireworks have been building their reputations as the next great five-piece pop-punk band, leading the charge for their pals (The Wonder Years and Man Overboard, to name just two) into a new pop-punk revolution. With the new, almost indie-leaning Gospel, their second full-length album, the band seem to be maturing immensely, but is it for the better?

Album Review: Manchester Orchestra- Simple Math (2011)

We know, we know: you're the biggest Manchester Orchestra fan around. You knew about them before Brand New scooped them up to open for them for just about every tour since The Devil and God are Raging Inside of Me came out. You know all about Andy Hull's back story, and how emotionally connected he feels to his songs, and how he's the most under-appreciated man in indie rock right now. We get it, you've been there with the band since I'm like a Virgin Losing a Child. That's great. Now, let the rest of us catch up. For those of you whose listening to Manchester Orchestra has been passed over, compromised, or completely forgotten about, the time is now to get into one today's fastest-rising, most forward-thinking rock acts in the game right now. Make no mistake: Andy Hull Will not be ignored any longer.

Show Review: Rise Against's Endgame Tour with Bad Religion and Four Year Strong at Terminal 5, NYC

Spring has finally sprung along the East Coast, where snow delayed the budding and blooming of the trees and flowers until after April Fools' Day. The bad weather broke, and it was just in time for the Mike and Tom Awesome show to trek up to New York City (you know, the concrete jungle where dreams are made of) to see Rise Against's spring 2011 tour, supporting the release of their wonderful new album Endgame. Always the type to put on a good show from start to finish, Rise Against hand-selected Bad Religion to be the direct support for the entire tour, a sort of "full-circle" move considering Rise Against opened for Bad Religion at Terminal 5 just a few short years ago. They also enlisted Four Year Strong to open up the show. Based on how the show went on Saturday night, it seems Rise Against haven't made a wrong decision yet in 2011.

The Obligatory 2011 Bamboozle Recap Post

The annual Bamboozle Festival has seen its lumps over the last few years, opting to appeal to the younger crowd with artists in the final stages of their fifteen minutes of fame rather than honoring the weathered titans of the scene. However, the 2011 edition of the festival proved to be the final stand for those bands who are still fighting for and writing music that's actually good (there were bad ones, too, but they were far outweighed by the good). Thankfully, all three of us at the Mike and Tom Awesome Show were able to snag tickets for Saturday's all-star, legendary line-up, and luckily for you, if you missed the festival (and really, there's no excuse for that), you can sit in on our look back through one of the best Bamboozles (that should be a word if it isn't) of all time:

Album Review: Panic! at the Disco!- Vices & Virtues (2011)

It's been three years since we last saw the dance-emo youngans of Panic! at the Disco, and that's probably a lot longer than the band probably wanted to wait to release their make-or-break third full-length album. However, the departure of key songwriter Ryan Ross and bassist Jon Walker left the band in a state of flux, as if the underwhelming and unexpected direction the band took on the Beatles-esque Pretty.Odd. divided the band's fanbase. Now, vocalist Brendan Urie and drummer Spencer Smith have found the stability the band needed, got a little older, and have a new album to boot. So does Vices & Virtues bring the band back to the days of the groundbreaking A Fever You Can't Sweat Out, or will they continue to toe the line between catchy and corny as Pretty.Odd.  so often crossed?

Critics be damned: this album is a return to form if there ever was one.