Madina Lake recently ripped it up on the Warped Tour in the US before opening on the main stage at Reading and Leeds. Their latest single, Let’s Get Out Of Here, hit digital stores on August 3.
Muse / Stockholm Syndrome This track revitalized my love for music. It has this constant build that blows my mind. Even as it changes in dynamic from verse to chorus to verse to bridge, the entire thing builds and gets heavier and heavier throughout. The ultimate pay-off.
There is nothing ordinary about Seattle (by way of Port Angeles, WA) based classic rock quartet The Lonely H. And there is nothing ordinary about their new release, Concrete Class. Following up their 2006 debut, Kick Upstairs, and 2007’s Hair, The Lonely H’s Concrete Class reels with the rawness of Bob Seger’s blue collar howl and rolls with the purity of a Tequila Sunrise.
Jenny Lewis / Acid Tongue A modern classic. It’s a simple, traditionally influenced ballad, delivered with bittersweet melancholy. A tale of starry-eyed love and growth, it sends shivers down my spine every time. When the last chorus hits, accented by a cathedral of harmonizing voices, the line, ‘It just made me tired’, makes me feel both tired and rejuvenated simultaneously. Oh, sweet contradiction. [Mark]
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