Posts Tagged ‘Smoking Popes’

Smoking Popes return with Stay Down, their first new studio album in over ten years. It sounds as if they never really left us. The band’s last official album was 1997’s Destination Failure. All three of the band’s older albums, Get Fired, Born To Quit and Destination Failure are classics and should be sought after […]

Full disclosure: I do PR for Cheap Girls so I’m not even going to attempt to review this as my words will just ring hollow. I will just say that Find Me A Drink Home will no doubt be in my top ten at the end of the year and fans of Smoking Popes and […]

Short review that really has nothing to do with this record:
Dear Dan Adriano,
Please, for the love of god, will you start your own band already!? Thanks!
Love, Will.
Longer review that has more to do with the actual record:
Fairly or unfairly, it seems as though Alkaline Trio will always be measured in comparison to the […]

Cheap Girls Release Album Digitally

Colossal has never officially broken up but with four years since the band’s last release and the announcement of a new band by main man Pat Ford, I think we can safely chalk them up to history. Colossal play smooth indie rock/emo with an almost jazz sensibility. The band’s use of the trumpet is prominent […]

New Smoking Popes Album!

As we impatiently wait for that new Smoking Popes album ( will it ever see the light of day?), it is comforting to know that Tin Armor have our back. I recently covered Tin Armor in the Band You Should Know category. Their 2007 album, A Better Place Than I Have Been was a brilliant […]

I just got a hold of Tin Armor’s 2007 debut, A Better Place Than I Have Been, and it is an endearing slice of indie/pop/punk. The band hails from Columbus, Ohio and just finished a tour with fellow Ohioans, the SAL-approved and awesome Annabel. Tin Armor bring to mind the warm tones of a band […]

Band Dump is just another excuse for me to make yet another list.
A Great Big Pile Of Leaves - Somebody sent me a link to these guys recently. The vocals get close to that annoying emo whine at times but always recover pretty well. I really like this. You can download the band’s EP, […]