If you were a teenager in the mid- to late 90s, you probably remember The Get Up Kids in their heyday, before the genre “emo” became so distorted with the cringe- worthy connotations it has now. After making music for about a decade, they called it quits as a band but many members went on
Jukebox the Ghost has traveled many miles since they formed as a trio in Washington D.C. back in 2008. And I don’t just mean the metaphorical distance between their debut album and their recently released sophomore effort because it was in fact, great (as all should be). The now-Philadelphia based trio has played over 300
You know how sometimes you go out for a night on the town, you’re dressed to kill- and then like a bolt of lightening it hits you- lust at first listen. Welcome to my last Saturday night. I’m at the Troubadour (check correspondent Claire’s coverage here) waiting for Hellogoodbye to storm the stage and I’m
On Saturday the 22nd, I headed on out to the Troubadour for another typical night of Los Angeles’ rocking live music scene, and, naturally, I was not disappointed. I don’t mean to make all you non-Angelenos jealous, but you should be totally jealous. It took me a while to understand the hype behind this city,
Yeah- I’m not going to lie to you. I was all about the Shimmy Shimmy Quarter Turn, I did the whole Call and Return thing, I’ve been getting down with Hellogoodbye for a while, so to step into the creative world that spawned so many amazing songs and supplemental music vids was, in a word,
HelloGoodbye’s second studio album Would It Kill You, released November 9th, 2010, stays true to form with a plethora of catchy melodies and beats that follow their traditional theatrical lines (a little less pomp than circumstance) with a new added synth twist. Their melodies are clear and the smooth instrumentals complement the repetition of the