Ray Ray
Ray Ray speaks about a life behind the drum set.
Ray Ray speaks about a life behind the drum set.
Stories and pictures show the behind the scenes life of SoCal punk band Face to Face.
No coast (Top Shelf Records). Review by Daniel Mitchell.
Overslept (Pure Noise). Review by Jen Cray.
All the punks who didn’t die became middle-aged and had children. Who could have imagined?
The Get Up Kids have, thankfully, outgrown the pop punk emo bands that copped their style 10 years ago, as a recent Orlando date proved to virgin listener Jen Cray.
My Dinosaur Life (Columbia Records). Review by Tim Wardyn.
LOVE Review by Jen Cray.
Four Year Strong
Alternative Press Magazine’s third annual tour sold out its Orlando date as All Time Low , The Rocket Summer , and a trio of other Teen Beat worthy bands made the girls and boys in the audience swoon. Jen Cray stood back and watched it all unfold.
Angels & Airwaves soared into Orlando recently, with a slew of young bands in tow. Jen Cray gave them a shot, but was not quite convinced.
I-Empire (Suretone/Geffen). Review by Jen Cray.
The Great Burrito Extortion Case (Jive). Review by Andrew Ellis.
Broadway Calls (State of Mind/Small Man). Review by Jen Cray.
Coming Home (Suretone/Geffen). Review by Andrew Ellis.
When Your Heart Stops Beating (Interscope Records). Review by Tim Wardyn.
Let It Happen (Deluxe Edition) (Tooth and Nail). Review by Andrew Ellis.
The annual O-Rock 105.9 No Snow Show had AFI in top billing with heavy support by Taking Back Sunday , Angels & Airwaves , Buckcherry , Sugarcult , Red Jumpsuit Apparatus and Kill Hannah. Reporting deep inside the very _un_winter weather was Jen Cray.
Antidote For Irony (Fearless). Review by Aaron Shaul.
What do you get when you mix Rancid’s Tim Armstrong and Blink 182’s Travis Barker with a roadie-turned-rapper? The Transplants answer Jen Cray’s question on this year’s Warped Tour.
This fall, Ani DiFranco brought new Righteous Babe labelmate Kristen Ford to Iowa City, where Jeremy Glazier enjoyed an incredible evening of artistry.
This week Christopher Long grabs a bag of bargain vinyl from a flea market in Mount Dora, Florida — including You’re Never Alone with a Schizophrenic, the classic 1979 LP from Ian Hunter.
Bob Pomeroy gets into four Radio Rarities from producer Zev Feldman for Record Store Day with great jazz recordings from Wes Montgomery, Les McCann, Cal Tjader, and Ahmad Jamal.
Bob Pomeroy digs into Un “Sung Stories” (1986, Liberation Hall), Blasters’ frontman Phil Alvin’s American Roots collaboration with Sun Ra and his Arkestra, the Dirty Dozen Brass Band, and New Orleans saxman Lee Allen.
Roi J. Tamkin reviews A Darker Shade of Noir, fifteen new stories from women writers completely familiar with the horrors of owning a body in a patriarchal society, edited by Joyce Carol Oates.
Mandatory: The Best of The Blasters (Liberation Hall). Review by Bob Pomeroy.
Feeling funky this week, Christopher Long gets his groove on while discovering a well-cared-for used vinyl copy of one of his all-time R&B faves: Ice Cream Castle, the classic 1984 LP from The Time, for just a couple of bucks.
During AFI Fest 2023, Lily and Generoso interviewed director Lkhagvadulam Purev-Ochir, whose impressive debut feature, City of Wind, carefully examines the juxtaposition between the identity of place and tradition against the powers of modernity in contemporary Mongolia.
Juliana Hatfield Sings ELO (American Laundromat Records). Review by Laura Pontillo.