In the pantheon of popular music, there are likely thousands of albums yearly that are critically acclaimed. This is also counting regional music that might only be popular to a small group of people. Whittling that down, especially for the most diverse music lover, may prove to be very difficult. It certainly is in our…
In the early 2000s, Drive-Thru Records was one of the biggest pop-punk/emo record labels on the planet. Popularizing bands like New Found Glory, Midtown, and even Hellogoodbye, the label sold millions of records, and was a huge catalyst on the explosion of these various scenes for years. While the label hasn’t existed in a long…
As a musician, I imagine reinventing yourself is fucking hard. To be kind, many of Hundredth’s long-time fans (okay, pretty much all of them) were shocked at the band’s full and complete departure from their melodic hardcore past, and their subsequent morphing into a shoegaze-influenced alt-rock band that wouldn’t sound out of place on a…
Truly one of the most impressive progressive metalcore bands of our time, Alabama’s Erra have made a name for themselves with both outstanding technicality and dynamic vocals, and that’s without mentioning the jaw-dropping vocals of Jesse Cash, whose range borders on Anthony Green levels at times. Though the band is now on their 3rd vocalist,…
