I had never heard of the Future Kings of Nowhere before I heard this album, but I am undoubtedly impressed. Though it's a free download, I would not hesitate to pay large sums of cash just to hear...

I've had a weird tendency to like extremely simplistic music videos. One of my favorite music videos is a Replacements song in which the entire music video just shows a speaker booming out the song while...

Annually, it seems, Fearless Records releases some sort of "Punk Goes" compilation, featuring "punk" bands covering non-punk songs from different important eras in music. There's one catch to this scheme,...

A playful guitar rings in the first track. It slowly leads up to chords, then violen, and then Alexander Hudjohn's punk voice, similar to a younger Chuck Ragan, completes this this glorious equation....

Music can cure a bad day. It's hard to think of modern culture and society without that comfort. Even after 21 hours of work on a weekend, music can somehow make me feel a bit better and lift me up. Ever...

Literature classes will often teach you about classics. They tell you exactly which ruggedly-bound books tell the stories that we'll be analyzing for ages. It is not often that one will run into a contemporary...

It took me awhile to understand the importance of seeing a band live. I went most of my childhood without seeing a single band live, but I can count off the ones that mattered without a second thought....

I have not been a fan of Alkaline Trio for several releases. The digital age ruined their punk age that made it okay to listen to emo. In fact, front-man Matt Skiba was not even heart-broken enough to...

Most of my life has been spent waiting to break the chains of age restriction. Whether it is getting a license at 16, seeing rated R movies at 17 or being an adult at 18, it seems age has a stronghold...

2010 has offered big promises when it comes to sequels in video games. Some of the biggest names in the industry are coming back, or potentially coming back, some after many years of development. In no...

MySpace was once a great way to discover free music, giving a low-quality yet free way of hearing songs off of new-released or sometimes alternate versions of songs. MySpace has lost its popularity and...

Major record deals are outdated and it seems the only reason the Recording Industry Association of America exists anymore is to complain that nobody wants to buy its music (I do not blame people, the...