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Imani Coppola – The Black and White Album
Review — January 8, 2008
The lights, the sounds, the excitement If you've ever been to New York City, you know what I'm talking about. Regardless of the borough, walking around the city is exhilarating, bordering on overwhelming, keeping you hyper-vigilant for fear of missing something really, really cool. Imani Coppola sounds like New York. …
The Hives – The Black and White Album
Review — November 27, 2007
You either like The Hives or you don't. Yes, it's that simple. The whole shtick, the outfits, the ego, be it embellished or not, the band formation at the behest of never-seen oft-mentioned mysterious "Randy Fitzsimmons." And, oh yeah, the music. It's all part and parcel of The Hives experience, …
PJ Harvey – White Chalk
Review — October 14, 2007
Beginning with her 1992 debut album Dry, much has been made of Polly Jean Harvey seemingly reinventing herself with every release that followed. For anyone else, this would be a gimmick, a hook - thus making the work less than sincere. But the calculation ends with the realization that …
A Day in Black and White/Black Castle – Split
Review — August 29, 2004
Splits are ideally awesome, with two bands combining their sounds for one album. Often times though it ends up that one side has a great band while the other has some weakness that jumped on. While Black Castle doesn't have as much to offer as A Day In Black And …
White Mice – Ganjahovedose
Review — November 16, 2009
To start I took a whole bunch of notes on White Mice's Ganjahovedose and realized afterward that I missed something kind of big about this band, no guitars. White Mice operates as a three-piece and that may be the only truly normal thing about them. They use drums, bass and …
The White Stripes – Get Behind Me Satan
Review — June 10, 2005
The very First time I heard White Stripes I honest to God thought I was hearing a Led Zeppelin bootleg. I walked into a record store and a minute later was telling a clerk "I'll take it". It wasn't Led Zeppelin. "I'll take it anyway". That was their sophomore album …
White Suns – Psychic Drift
Review — August 21, 2017
White Suns, the New York based noise trio, has been slowly descending on the path of deconstruction. Founded in 2006, the band has released a series of albums, presenting an experimental rock perspective and subsequently deconstructing it to its most basic core. The highlight of this process was Totem, a …
White Ward – Futility Report
Review — August 7, 2017
Hailing from Odessa, Ukraine, White Ward exist within the post-black metal scene, stirring experimental means to enhance the core of the genre, and push it forwards. Initially founded in 2012, the band has released a series of EPs and demos, taking five long years for their first complete work, Futility …
White Reaper – The World's Best American Band
Review — April 17, 2017
You’d think that a band that titled their album The World’s Best American Band may be getting ahead of themselves. But not every band is White Reaper. They might have just done it.The second album from the Louisville, Kentucky natives somehow takes elements of ear-pleasing 70’s hard rock a-la …
White Willow – Future Hopes
Review — March 21, 2017
They call it prog-rock, art-rock, jazz-rock, they call it tedious and pretentious, they call it heady, too-much, reserved as the best time to get a drink at the bar or shop the merch table….White Willow’s record Future Hopes assists in refuting that argument.I like when a musician takes …
White Lung – Paradise
Review — December 5, 2016
Since the 1980s, Vancouver, B.C. has always had a thriving punk scene, but the new millennium came in like a reaper and scythe, decimating live music venues until there was virtually nothing left. So, in true DIY fashion, performances began in the underground parking garage of the Emily Carr Institute …
A Day in Black and White – Notes
Review — November 16, 2005
On Notes, A Day in Black and White's debut full-length, they get to point quickly; in one minute and twenty seconds to be precise. After an at-times impressive first release, My Heroes Have Always Killed Cowboys released on Level Plane in 2004, A Day in Black and White looked …
The White Stripes – Icky Thump
Review — June 25, 2007
"Ecky Thump," a Lancashire colloquialism, is most commonly described as slang for an exclamation of surprise, disbelief, or in recognition of something amazing. Icky Thump, The White Stripes sixth studio album, definitely lives up to it's name. The band released a statement on their official website explaining that: The White …
White Lung – Deep Fantasy
Review — June 16, 2014
Deep Fantasy is pissed off, but it could still use a good angry howl every so often.The record, the third from Vancouver’s White Lung, is their first on Domino Records and was recorded as a trio (though they still tour as a quartet). The band has seen its fair …
White Lung – Sorry
Review — July 23, 2012
If you were a fan of White Lung's debut album, It's The Evil, for it's raw and straight forward approach, then you might be a little taken aback by the sophomore record, Sorry. They've re-evaluated their style of songwriting and have turned it into something more melodic and refined. It …
A Day in Black and White – My Heroes Have Always Killed Cowboys
Review — June 30, 2004
I'm nearing twenty years of age and never once during these nineteen-plus years have I been able to view things in anything but color. Don't get me wrong, I've seen black and white films; I've also taken and viewed black and white pictures. For my twentieth birthday I will get …
One Question Interviews: The Travoltas
Feature — February 3, 2018
Perry (The Travoltas) SPB: Should more punk bands listen to Beach Boys and use their influences? And which album would you recommend to start listening? Perry: That's an absolute yes. If you want to be schooled in songwriting and come up with great harmonies, this is it. Especially …
One Question Interviews: The Blackjaw
Feature — March 10, 2020
Germán Picazo (The Blackjaw) SPB: Your record is called Burn The Artisan. What do you hold against them? Picazo: We’ve nothing against the artisans, it’s just an irony figure of speech. We have been composing, practicing and then recording the album for about 3 years so it …
Bands: STiCKFiGS debut
News — July 8, 2023
From The Hague, pop-punk trio STiCKFiGS has shared the single "Ghosts," an early taste of their upcoming debut EP, scheduled for a September release via White Russian Records. Comprised of Fexet bandmates Sam and Eelco, the group adds drummer Oropo and play tight, fast, '90s influenced pop-driven punk.
