I don't think that I feel guilty about any of the media that I enjoy. I'm not ashamed to admit that I still laugh at 'Everybody to the Limit,' for instance. I am aware, however, that I own some albums that I would be expected to feel guilty about. Paramore's self-titled release definitely fits that [...]
Category: Music
A Concert Confession
Here's a dirty little secret of mine: unless I really love the band, I'm not particularly crazy about live music. Considering that I played in a number of bands myself for the better part of a decade, that seems almost contradictory or, at the very least, anomalous. And yet it's the truth. If I have [...]
Making Time
On Friday night, Vasudeva - hailing from New Jersey and one of my all-time favorite instrumental bands - played just a mile or two from where I live. It was great to get out to see them again, especially since the last time I saw them was about a year ago in New Jersey, when [...]
Cryptomnesia
There is a line in the Artifex Pereo song 'No Stranger to Worry' that reads, "Infatuated with a dark, looming end," which is not particularly eventful by itself. It's essentially a typical prog-rock lyric on what I consider to be a particularly excellent prog-rock album. I bring this up, though, because the phrasing and melody [...]
Caught Up In Your Love Affair
Let's talk about pop music. Top 40 hits are rarely our focus here at Type In Stereo, and yet sometimes a song will come under the inscrutable magnifying glass of the public eye that is just too compelling for us to ignore. Lorde's 'Royals' is just such a song. If you're not already sick of [...]
The Lyricist: One Foot
Music is important. This much we can all agree upon. But lyrics? That tends to be a matter of great debate. Staff writer Brennan is here to argue that lyrics can and should be valuable to all appreciators of music, not just teenage girls and hippies obsessed with Bob Dylan. To that end, and at [...]
The Lyricist: The Lion and the Wolf
Music is important. This much we can all agree upon. But lyrics? That tends to be a matter of great debate. Staff writer Brennan is here to argue that lyrics can and should be valuable to all appreciators of music, not just teenage girls and hippies obsessed with Bob Dylan. To that end, and at [...]
A Weekend in Jersey
In the game room of a bar in north Jersey, I watched as three people casually discussed the merits of astrology on a couch in the corner, four friends exchanged playful barbs and wagers as they undertook an epic game of foosball, and one tall guy in a tight fitting white t-shirt double-fisted neon pistols [...]
The Dear Hunter – Migrant
When The Dear Hunter released The Color Spectrum in 2011, much like when Thrice released The Alchemy Index throughout 2007 and 2008, a truly massive and ambitious project was born into the world. Somewhat inevitable, then, was the reality that for each band, their next release would be significantly less ambitious. Thrice followed their sonically experimental quadripartite foray into the [...]
Straylight Run – About Time
By the time Straylight Run released their About Time EP, I had pretty much given up on the band. Like most of my peers, I had a special place in my heart for the melancholic angst parade that was Straylight Run (2004); and when the Prepare to Be Wrong EP was released in 2005, I found that I quite enjoyed it's [...]
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