Mind Equals Blown

There’s something peculiar about Blessed By A Broken Heart. In their combination of epic melodic passages and near mechanic metal-tinged riffage, the quintet comes off as a mixture of hair metal meets Dragonforce-lite. As for the product, the band’s new album Feel the Power is oddly interesting in an awesomely bad way. It’s like every

Foxy Shazam means cool. I mean that figuratively and literally; vocalist Eric Sean Nally’s high school cronies used “foxy shazam” to describe things that are cool, which is where the name came from. And figuratively, everything about Foxy Shazam is just cool. The prog-rockers from Cincinnati have always been doing their own thing, repeatedly resulting

Despite super-group status and monumental pressures to live up to their prior reputations from previous bands, the men in Fun. are doing just fine. With 2009’s release of their hit record, Aim and Ignite, they have become a household name, with success in almost every media aspect. They have accomplished much in a short span

Where to begin? Anthony Green, known as the frontman of Circa Survive, has released his second solo full-length, entitled Beautiful Things, for Photo Finish Records.  With backing from Good Old War on the album, the shuffling, sometimes-acoustic, sometimes-experimental album is certainly a shocking difference for those who are used to Green singing over electric, indie-rock

Having formed less than a year ago, Secrets has already got the production quality and grasp of the genre under its belt. Their first full-length The Ascent is chock full of typically energetic harmonized choruses, breakdowns, and hardcore fury. The thing is about this record is that it isn’t totally on par with other scene-core

The main beef with faith-based music (besides the obvious conflict of beliefs) is the ever-so-common cheesy, worship-y sound that ends up being created by that type of band. However, there are a few groups that have figured out the ways of the stream and are able to have the best of both worlds, including Relient K,

Getting closer to the end of my top ten songs of 2011, these three tracks pick up from last week’s article to showcase some serious improvement from two bands, a pair of positive-minded album closers, and three great vocalists. We’re further down the list, but the quality is still at an incredible high.

Cloud Nothings is a project that has been making quite a name for itself in the past year. The brainchild of Cleveland native Dylan Baldi, the project has been putting out fuzzy lo-fi pop-punk for a couple of years already. After signing to Carpark Records, Baldi put out a self-titled record, which gained him more