Reviews
Album Review: Muse – Drones
Altwire Staff
Muse has become one of the biggest names in alternative rock and their millions of fans have been waiting for the next album to be released. Since the inception of the band, Muse has released albums approximately ...
Album Review: Twenty One Pilots – Blurryface
Altwire Staff
Twenty One Pilots has returned with their latest album, Blurryface, which is the follow-up to 2013’s highly successful album, Vessel. Blurryface is the fourth studio album from the duo. Prior to signing with Fueled by ...
Album Review: While She Sleeps – Brainwashed
Altwire Staff
While She Sleeps have returned with a stunning sophomore album, showcasing an incredible drive forward from their début studio album This Is The Six that had topped charts in 2012. Any evidence of Brainwashed ...
Album Review: Of Mice & Men – Restoring Force: Full Circle
Altwire Staff
Released three years after their sophomore album The Flood, Restoring Force can be safely considered to indeed have restored Of Mice & Men’s force in the music industry, with an incredible debut at #4 ...
Album Review: Future User – #SteroidsOrHeroin
Altwire Staff
When I first had the opportunity to listen to Future User’s début album, I admit that I was a bit apprehensive upon reading the album title “#SteroidsOrHeroin.” To me the title just screamed “try-hard”. ...
Marmozets – The Weird And Wonderful Marmozets (CD)
Derek Oswald
First and foremost, it’s time to disregard the cheapening and blatantly false comparisons to Paramore you may have heard about this band. Marmozets are in a league of their own and in a completely different ...
In Flames – Siren Charms
Altwire Staff
In Flames became one of my favorite bands back in 2009. I was at the library with my classmates from school, and in that library there were CDs that you could borrow for free, ...
Album Review: Watsky- All You Can Do
Altwire Staff
Oh, my, Watsky. Slam-Poet-turned-rapper, George Watsky, has really outdone himself on his newest album, ‘All You Can Do’, released on August 12th, 2014. This album features so many genres that even the strictest rock, ...
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 ...
