Reviews
Album Review: Jack White – Lazaretto
Altwire Staff
It doesn’t matter what you hear, or where you hear it, the distinct guitar riffs and unique vocals of Jack White can be easily distinguished amongst a sea of imitators and bands that nowadays ...
Album Review: Coldplay – Ghost Stories
Altwire Staff
I’ve always been told that high expectations lead to high disappointments. Maybe I was expecting more from Coldplay’s latest album, Ghost Stories, released in May, 2014. I was expecting something different from what I’m ...
The Hunting Party (Linkin Park): Album Review
Derek Oswald
When I first listened to a six-song sampler from The Hunting Party back in April, I described the new music as “some of [Linkin Park’s] most electrifying and aggressive sounding tracks to date” and ...
Closure In Moscow – Pink Lemonade
Altwire Staff
Sometimes when searching for music late at night you’ll stumble across a band that you may have never heard of before, but you instantly realize you will enjoy. For me, that’s often when I’m ...
Album Review: Southsiders – Atmosphere
Altwire Staff
I remember listening to Atmosphere’s “Your Glass House” for the first time. I was browsing through some music videos on YouTube as a real millennial kid when I came across it. It was angsty, ...
Review: Lykke Li – I Never Learn
Altwire Staff
Swedish indie pop sensation Lykke Li rarely disappoints. The way her unique voice mixes with melodious synth arrangements is inimitable. Sadly, the new album I Never Learn can’t compare to the ingenuity of her ...
Darlia – Candyman EP
Altwire Staff
A few months back, I was browsing the Indie Studio section of the AltWire forums in search for new music, and the band I found that day was British grunge three-piece Darlia. The band ...
Album Review: Animals as Leaders – The Joy of Motion
Altwire Staff
In this current generation of music is it well agreed upon that the soul of a record can easily be drowned out by technology or even technicality. It’s so easy for a band to ...
Album Review: Meg Myers – Make a Shadow EP
Altwire Staff
Before I start this review, I have to admit that Meg Myers is a sort of personal heroine for me. She manages to be funny, cool, sexy without bowing to the industry – her ...
Album Review: Chvrches – The Bones of What You Believe
Altwire Staff
I’m one of those rare people who stay up late for no apparent reason, watch late night television, and clean the house when insomnia kicks in. If it weren’t for that horrible habit of ...
Album Review: Warpaint – New Year New Album
Altwire Staff
January was a good month for LA-based band, Warpaint, who released their second album. If you haven’t heard them before, it’s best to just start with the new. Their self-titled album is singular to ...
Against Me! Make No Bones about the Elephant in the Room with “Transgender Disphoria Blues”
Altwire Staff
Welp, I suppose I won’t beat around the bush. I mean, Against Me! have certainly done nothing of the sort since it’s right in the album’s title. This is the first album the band ...
Puscifer’s “What Is…” The Best Look at Redneck Punk Rock of 2013
Altwire Staff
This amusing DVD starts off with a “mockumentary” following Billy D, Hilldy, and (F******) Peter Merkin of the Burger Barns, a self-proclaimed “Punk Rock” band. It follows the band through their tumultuous tour which ...
“Punk Goes Christmas” [Album] (2013)
Altwire Staff
Since 2000, when the first Punk Goes… compilation album, by Fearless Records was released, we’ve received a new album filled with covers of either famous pop, metal, 80’s, 90’s and crunk songs, every year. ...
Oh! Lorde!
Altwire Staff
What were you doing when you were sixteen? If you were me, you were a newly licensed driver, cruising around in your Plymouth Neon listening to Weezer, trying to get by in high school. ...
Linkin Park – “RECHARGED” [CD] (2013)
Derek Oswald
Hot off the heels of their latest collaboration with EDM DJ Steve Aoki on “A Light That Never Comes”, Linkin Park have released a superb collection of remixes of songs originally recorded for their ...
Panic! At The Disco – “Too Weird to Live, Too Rare to Die!” [Album] (2013)
Derek Oswald
Throughout the band’s short but storied nine year history, Las Vegas based pop-punk band Panic! At The Disco have experienced their fair share of ups and downs. Exploding onto the scene like their fellow ...
Arcade Fire – “Reflektor” [Single] (2013)
Altwire Staff
It’s fair to say that Arcade Fire’s third major album release, 2010’s The Suburbs, solidified their place in alternative rock’s history and is now at the forefront of mainstream music. Now, three years later and ...