“When I come back like Jordan/Wearing the 4-5, it ain’t to play games with you” – Jay-Z “Encore” June 14th, 1998. It’s game six of the the 1998 ...
To be completely biased, I think the mid 2000’s (especially 2005) produced some of the most memorable works that we in our early/mid-20’s still turn to whenever we ...
It’s hard to believe that With Teeth turns ten this year. It’s one of those Nine Inch Nails releases that I listened to as if I was reading ...
Does it make you feel old knowing that ten years ago one the most iconic rock albums of the 21st century was released? I’m talking about an album ...
Way back in the mid-2000s, I (as well as a lot of other staff members) were facing day-to-day challenges caused by society’s unofficial Hunger Games battleground – middle school. Like many others who absolutely hated ...
It has currently been just over ten years since the St. Catherines, Ontario, Canada-based post-hardcore band Alexisonfire released their second studio album Watch Out! It’s always an interesting ...
Everyone loves Zach Braff. Ever since he took the small screen by storm with his quirky antics on Scrubs, Braff has managed to maintain his relevance and cool-boy ...
I think the majority of us have seen Rocky 3, where it’s a tale of a champion who loses his way and gets downright shellacked in order for ...
When looking at the track list for indie rock quartet The Killers’ debut album Hot Fuss after ten years, it’s almost as if I’m looking at the band’s ...
After releasing Watch Out! in 2004, and having the album reach gold certification in Canada, how does a band manage to follow that up while keeping the intensity ...
Within the first few tracks of Pretty. Odd., it becomes evident that Panic at the Disco’s fever has long since been sweat out. In their debut studio album, ...
“We all self-conscious/I’m just the first to admit it”, spit now-superstar Kanye West on his 2004 debut, The College Dropout. Of course, ten years later, anyone who’s even ...
For awhile, you’ve seen us here at Mind Equals Blown giving you the scoop on new music, but more recently we’ve been diving into the discographies of artists ...
Looking at the way they’re currently headlining huge European festivals, you wouldn’t guess that Scottish three-piece Biffy Clyro released their debut full-length Blackened Sky to literally no acclaim ...
Written By Guest Writer Justin Graci The Wonder Years set themselves apart from all of their peers with their incredible record The Upsides. They showed hope and promise ...
I’m not sad anymore. They were the opening words to a song, no, an album that would propel the somewhat buzzing realist pop-punks from maybes to somebodies. The ...
It would be a massive understatement to say that Philly pop-punk flagbearers The Wonder Years have come a long way since their debut LP. Get Stoked On It! ...
Folie is a very good album, though I have to admit that my musical tastes weren't yet ready to accept and appreciate it when the album was first ...
This was written by guest writer Jacob Tender of Under The Gun Review. Follow him on Twitter! What is “good” is totally subjective. I stand by that with ...
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 ...
Fall Out Boy has done some pretty risky and unique things for the release of Save Rock and Roll. In fact, the existence of this album is a feat in itself considering ...
Remember when Suicide Season came out? I actually don’t but that’s beside the point. I do however remember when someone showed me the music of Bring Me the ...
Suicide Season. The breakthrough LP for UK-based Bring Me the Horizon. As much as Count Your Blessings is jarring to listen to in comparison to even this record, ...
Count Your Blessings seems to be the odd one out when it comes to the comparison of Bring Me the Horizon records. While musically it is certainly less ...
Senses Fail might be the most consistent group of guys in the scene today. If you have ever listened to this band, you will find little, if anything, ...
Life Is Not a Waiting Room is not Senses Fail’s only Top 5 album. Now, when I say Top 5, I am basing it solely on what other ...
Sometime back in 2006 a friend of mine left a couple of CDs in my room. One of these would be a classic I still listen to, and ...
During the emo takeover of the early 2000s, bands like Dashboard Confessional and Jimmy Eat World were stealing their fans’ hearts with their catchy, heart-on-sleeve alt-rock. However, on ...
Please note that this review will cover the re-released version of the EP, which includes two tracks not on the original. Back in the early parts of the ...
Let’s face it: it’s no secret that Justin Timberlake has quickly become one of the most sought-after musicians, actors and sex symbols of the 21st century. With the ...
I often forget that Justin Timberlake’s career started in N*Sync, the immensely popular boy band from the ‘90s. This isn’t because their music is terrible (we all listened ...
Reach Beyond the Sun is a peculiar milestone for Shai Hulud. Not that they haven’t achieved plenty already or that this is somehow tarnished. No, LP4 is quite ...
It’s always an interesting journey to revisit a record you once wrote something about – only to write something about it again. For Misanthropy Pure, young twentysomething me ...
In the second chapter of Shai Hulud’s musical journey, we learn that things tend to happen when you don’t release an album for almost six years. The release ...
In 1997, hardcore was probably in a different place than it was in 2003, 2008 or even today in 2013. But for the most part, I can’t really ...