From the slow opening of “The Worst in Me” to the last few drumbeats in “Praise Feeder,” Like Moths to Flames latest album, “When We Don’t Exist,” is packed with huge breakdowns and monumental choruses. Since their signing to Rise Records, Like Moths to Flames have been on the upswing. Their pushing their live shows, touring as much as possible, and plan on showing the music scene how good they are rather than telling them. “When We Don’t Exist” conjures comparisons to similar bands, like The Devil Wears Prada, Asking Alexandria and My Ticket Home. These comparisons a...
Nov. 1 Cleveland, OH, House of Blues Cleveland In anticipation of the October 4th release of their new album, Radiosurgery, beloved pop punkers New Found Glory are unleashing a new video for the record’s title track. The video clip for “Radiosurgery” is a hilarious, high-energy homage to the classic Ramones’ video for “I Wanna Be Sedated.” The video features New Found Glory performing their song in an unremarkable hallway as an increasingly Felliniesque parade of riff raff, including celebrities, politicians and strippers, commit acts of joyful debauchery around the seemingly ...
Dizzy Whore Desperate Side of Rock 'n' Roll Dizzy Whore could probably give two shits about this review. Any original band in 2009 adopting the image and style of almost everything Sunset Strip is in it for themselves and for the sheer passion of rock ‘n’ roll. At their best they sound like a glammed-up Alice Cooper. At their worst, they sound like a more modern version of L.A. Guns or Cinderella. Take that however you want to take it, this reviewer thinks it’s exactly what they’re going for. And with a few rare exceptions, on “Desperate Side of Rock ‘n’ Roll” they pull it of...
The Atom Age Kill Surf City When Rocket From the Crypt called it a day, well, it sucked pretty hardcore. There wasn’t a band quite like RFTC (immortalized in the Danko Jones song “RIP RFTC”) and arguably there wasn’t a better live band to come from the mid-90s rock boom. There was the whole fast California feel, the scorching leads, the pounding rhythm section, the horns that were insanely rock ‘n’ roll (not ska!) and the pompousness of a band that new they were the best game in town whether the crowd knew it or not. The Atom Age worship RFTC. Some tracks on “Kill Surf City” at...
Dan Miraldi, the NE Ohio-based musician whose candy-sweet pop songs are underpinned with decades of American rock history, recently released Tease, a new three-song solo EP. Miraldi, who also plays keyboard with the Washington, DC-area band The Silver Liners, produced Tease with Kyle Downes. Jay Nemeyer provided some guitar, bass and drums. It’s easy to think of Tease as a kind of appetizer for Miraldi’s future releases: The three songs- “Lucinda”, “The Holy Roller Stone Revival” and the title track- demonstrate a broad range of musical talents and lyrical subjects, an...
By D. Beall Hailing from Cleveland, this foursome has been garnering praise left and right from their mostly LGBT contemporaries and fanbase, and not without reason. This album stands up there with other artists in their hemisphere- the problem is, those artists are kind of hard to find unless you’re in that scene. The unfortunate by-product of their kind of obscurity: after reading a few glowing reviews, I wonder, where is their competition? Have I never heard of them because they confine themselves to queer-only venues? So I review mostly out of context. Fans of The Cliks or T...
By Tim Webb For a stridently independent artist, Jackson Rohm’s album output is rather impressive: six full-length albums in under a decade. Self-releasing that many albums is a mark that shows, for someone who probably doesn’t sell a whole lot of records, he believes wholeheartedly in his art. As he should. Acoustic Sessions finds the pop country singer dialing his already feathery-light music down to sparse, unplugged pop songs. The 14 songs, all written by Rohm, abide by the standards for modern country music; quick bridges that explode into choruses the size of Montana’s sk...
