Browsing All Posts By Nick Niedzielski
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MEB Podcast – Episode 6: EOTY & The MEBBIES
Welcome back to the Mind Equals Blown Podcast! For our first episode of the new year, Nick and MJ decided to look back at 2014 and talk about ...
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Nick’s Top In 2014
In all honesty, I wanted to put “Problem” by Ariana Grande in every blank, but there were things called “rules” and “guidelines” and “the fear that everyone would ...
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Descensus Tour @ Amo’s Southend
Going to college right outside of Austin, Texas spoiled me. Essentially every tour I wanted to see came through the city and I was able to go to ...
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MEB Podcast – Episode 5
Welcome to episode 5 of the Mind Equals Blown Podcast! This week, Nick, Connor and MJ discuss the Grammy nominations, the new Fall Out Boy single, Lil ...
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MEB Podcast: Episode 4 – (*Fin)
Welcome to episode 4 of the Mind Equals Blown Podcast! This week, Nick, Connor and MJ discuss Anberlin’s career, from their final tour to their records to their ...
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MEB Podcast Episode 3
Welcome to episode 3 of the Mind Equals Blown Podcast! This week, fellow staffer Craig Roxburgh joins Nick and MJ to discuss a variety of topics, including the ...
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MEB Podcast: Episode 2 – Ten Year Anniversaries
Welcome to episode 2 of the Mind Equals Blown Podcast! This week, Nick, Connor, and M.J. discuss their favorite records that are going to be turning 10 next ...
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MEB Podcast: Episode 1- Fall Releases
Welcome to episode #1 of the Mind Equals Blown Podcast! This week, Nick, Connor, and MJ discuss some highly anticipated records coming out this fall. Check it out ...
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I’m On My Way To Hell: Revisiting Daisy Five Years Later
Five years ago, one of the most revered and beloved bands in the scene presented the follow up to one of the most revered and beloved albums in ...
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3 Of The Week: (9/11/14)
For the first time in the 22 years that I have graced this Earth with my presence, I don’t live in Texas, or as I fondly refer to ...
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Ariana Grande: My Everything
I know what you’re thinking, loyal reader. “Nick, what are you doing?! You’re risking losing your Internet street cred! This is not punk!” Well, mom and the other ...
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MEB Discussion: Fall/Winter 2014 Tours
The great thing about music is that there will always be differing opinions. No matter what the issue at hand is, there will always be an assortment of ...
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Album Reviews 1
Real Friends: Maybe This Place Is The Same And We’re Just Changing
There is a disheartening trend in the music scene that does not make any sense to me. No, I’m not talking about listening to Attila, I’m talking about ...
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Driver Friendly: Unimagined Bridges
The road to Unimagined Bridges has been a long journey, to say the least. Driver Friendly’s newest full-length comes 12 years after the band’s inception, six years after ...
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Interview: Brian Sella of The Front Bottoms
MEB staffer Nick Niedzielski recently caught up with The Front Bottoms frontman Brian Sella at the Austin date of the band’s current tour opening for Say Anything, where they ...
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Tigers Jaw: Charmer
The road to Tigers Jaw’s fourth full-length has certainly been an interesting one. The past year has been shrouded in confusion and doubt, mired by uncertainty and miscommunication. ...
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Fireworks: Oh, Common Life
“I am what I am / Just not what I was.” Oh, Common Life, Fireworks’ third full-length, is filled to the brim with memorable lines. Frontman Dave Mackinder’s ...
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Interview: Touché Amoré
MEB staffer Nick Niedzielski recently spoke with Touché Amoré vocalist Jeremy Bolm at the Austin, TX stop of the band’s current co-headlining tour with mewithoutYou. He discussed their newest ...
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Album Reviews 2
The Hotelier: Home, Like Noplace Is There
Music genres, as with anything in life, can reach the point of over-saturation. When a style becomes increasingly dense, the quality often suffers and it can be harder ...
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The Lawrence Arms: Metropole
Genres can be confusing. They are blanket descriptions that are used to superficially cover wide ranges of music. I bring this up to clarify my next statement: we ...
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Nick’s Top In 2013
10. Citizen – Youth 9. I The Might – Satori 8. The World Is A Beautiful Place And I Am No Longer Afraid To Die – Whenever, If ...
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Childish Gambino: Because The Internet
“I wanted to make something that says, no matter how bad you fuck up, or mistakes you’ve made during the year, your life, your eternity, you’re always allowed ...
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Polar Bear Club: Death Chorus
When an established band expands or changes their sound, one of the first questions that arises is “Why?” Listeners immediately formulate ideas and explanations to rationalize the moves ...
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Interview: Motion City Soundtrack
MEB staffer Nick Niedzielski recently had the chance to catch up with Motion City Soundtrack vocalist/guitarist Justin Pierre on the band’s current tour with Relient K to discuss ...
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Album Reviews 1
Title Fight: Spring Songs EP
I had the privilege of seeing Title Fight play at a tiny venue in Austin last week during Fun Fun Fun Fest. And after watching them take the ...
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Chvrches: The Bones Of What You Believe
I like to think of myself as a fan of many different genres of music. I like to think that I have an eclectic taste that casts a ...
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Single Reviews 0
Single Review: New Found Glory’s “Connect The Dots”
New Found Glory will always have a special place in my heart. Their style of raucous pop-punk drew me in immediately the first time I heard Sticks and ...
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Single Review: Touché Amoré’s “Harbor”
There aren’t many bands around right now that pack as much of an emotional punch as Touché Amoré. 2011’s Parting the Sea Between Brightness and Me is a crushing ...
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Big Sean: Hall Of Fame
It is human nature to want to prove people wrong. If others pigeonhole you as a certain type, you want to go out and show them that they ...
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Best Day Ever: Handing Out Awards For The 2013 Warped Tour
Warped Tour Day is always the best day of summer. For the past five years, I’ve endured terrible sunburns (because sunscreen is for wimps), crippling hunger and thirst ...
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Single Review: Drake feat. 2 Chainz and Big Sean – “All Me”
Confession time: I think Drake makes really great music. I think he gets lumped into a group with other mainstream hip-hop artists, mostly due to his affiliation with ...
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Single Review: Childish Gambino’s “Centipede”
When it was recently announced that Donald Glover would only be appearing on five episodes of the upcoming season of the television show “Community,” many suggested that it ...
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Jay-Z: Magna Carta…Holy Grail
Jay-Z and Kanye West will forever be intertwined in their musical careers, from Kanye getting his big break producing on The Blueprint to their mammoth collaboration album Watch ...
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Single Review: Earl Sweatshirt – “Hive”
2013 has been an outstanding year for hip-hop thus far. Kevin Gates, Chance the Rapper and Kanye West have all put out phenomenal records, and The Weeknd, Drake and Janelle ...
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Interview: Driver Friendly
MEB staffer Nick Niedzielski recently caught up with the guys in Driver Friendly to discuss signing to a label, the cons of being a band in Austin, ...
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Interview: I The Mighty
MEB staffer Nick Niedzielski recently caught up with I The Mighty vocalist and guitarist Brent Walsh to talk about the band’s debut album Satori – from lyrics to recording ...
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Album Reviews 2
Driver Friendly: Peaks + Valleys
Five years ago, Driver Friendly was hardly even a band. After releasing their debut Chase the White Whale, circumstances forced the Texas natives to put the band on the ...
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Single Review: The Story So Far – “Clairvoyant”
When The Story So Far was gearing up to release the highly anticipated What You Don’t See earlier this year, the expectations for it were sky high. In ...
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Tyler, The Creator: Wolf
As I sat watching the NFL Draft the other night, I began to think about what the future holds for these players. Everyone drafted has a high level ...
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Fall Out Boy: From Under The Cork Tree
When fans look at Fall Out Boy’s discography, they often draw a line in the sand. There is the aggressive pop-punk of Take This to Your Grave, and ...
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Interview: Souvenirs
MEB Staff Writer Nick Niedzielski recently got the chance to talk to Tim Riley, vocalist and guitarist for the California-based emo band Souvenirs, about a few things, including ...
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Album Reviews
Souvenirs: Tired Of Defending You
Outside influences make an impact in any kind of musical project you come across. Some bands fold their influences into their sound in a subtle, nuanced fashion. Some ...
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Single Review: Earl Sweatshirt – “Whoa”
When Earl Sweatshirt released “Chum,” the first song off his upcoming album Doris, it marked a departure for the most talented member of Odd Future. It was a ...
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MEB’s Guide to the 2013 SXSW
Everything is bigger in Texas, and South By Southwest is a perfect example of that. For six days, Austin becomes the center of the music world, with tons ...
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Kilo Kish: K+
Musical experimentation is something that is not often associated with the hip-hop scene. As a whole, the genre sticks pretty close to a certain blueprint. But recently, the ...
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Single Review: Silverstein – “Massachusetts”
Silverstein has always been one of the best in the music scene at seamlessly blending an aggressive, punishing sound with catchiness and accessibility. They have built their career ...
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Nick N’s Top in 2012
10. Ellie Goulding – Halcyon 9. Bloc Party – Four 8. Handguns – Angst 7. Kendrick Lamar – good kid, mA.A.d city 6. Xerxes – Our Home Is A Deathbed 5. Cloud ...
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Major League: Hard Feelings
Not every band needs to reinvent their genre. Every album doesn’t need to be a super ambitious effort to stand out above its peers. Sometimes the best way ...
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P.O.S.: We Don’t Even Live Here
Hip-hop sometimes has a bad reputation, especially among rock music fans. When they hear about a rapper, the first thing that pops into their heads is probably that ...
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Anberlin: New Surrender
After releasing the masterpiece that is Cities, Anberlin returned to the studio to record their major label debut. The end product, New Surrender, is a very solid, straightforward ...
