by Sean Passmore | Jun 23, 2020 | Album of the Week
LA based rock quintet Phantom Planet formed just over 25 years ago in 1994 with band members still in their teens just barely out of high school. Named after the 1961 B movie The Phantom Planet, their sound at the time was compared to Weezer with a heavy Beach...
by Sean Passmore | May 15, 2020 | Album of the Week
Whoever said “Rock is dead” has not heard the latest from Pearl Jam, Seattle’s sole living survivors of the early 90’s grunge wars. A unit of explosive equal to one billion tons of TNT, a gigaton is exactly what Pearl Jam dropped earlier this...
by Sean Passmore | May 6, 2020 | Album of the Week
Green Day are the Rolling Stones of punk rock, in a good way. An uncompromising creative force onto themselves Green Day have managed to remain relevant and vital throughout a continuing stretch of 30 plus years maneuvering the murky waters of popular music’s...
by Sean Passmore | May 4, 2020 | Album of the Week
Perpetually forward looking, brothers Dean And Robert DeLeo along with drummer Eric Kretz, the nucleus of the Stone Temple Pilots, have consistently triumphed over periods of adversity in their 30 years together. Starting a new chapter in late 2017 with the addition...
by Sean Passmore | May 3, 2020 | Album of the Week
Strokes’ lead singer Julian Casablancas was all of 3 years old when controversial New York street artist Jean-Michele Basquiat painted The Bird Of Money in 1981, the very piece of art work Casablancas & co. chose to grace the cover of their latest album The...