"Reality Check" by The TeenagersThe Teenagers have been an internet phenomenon for a while now, but after listening to their first proper release, Reality Check, it's hard to buy into the hype that has them painted as geniuses. Their formula has them taking the fifteen-year-old bedroom poetry aesthetic of emo, then removing any melody, metaphor, and almost anything else that would actually constitute a song. Somehow, though, the skeletal ideas left in their wake are actually sort of endearing (and catchy)—kind of like the way a toddler's finger paintings are cute, even if they aren't necessarily good. Dorian Dumont and Michael Szpiner, both of whom have an extensive background in France's music scene, helm the band's lo-fi, indie-dance rock. Vocals, however, are handled by Quentin Delafon, and it's no surprise that he's the only band member without a musical background, with his spoken word-sung delivery. The band already has a mega-hit with album opener "Homecoming," a re-written Grease,/i> send-up (updated with
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Published: 2008-03-26
Provider: Artist Direct
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"Cease to Begin" by Band of HorsesThanks to bands with an affinity for the whiskey-soaked Southern rock of yore, the genre is rising again. But this isn't the bayou-loving sound of Creedence Clearwater Revival, Lynyrd Skynyrd or The Allman Brothers Band. Today's Southern rock is more sedate and less likely to become a protest anthem on a college campus. Band of Horses' newest album, Cease to Begin, is a testament to the softer side of the swamp, with its bluesy ballads, lazy banjos and lyrics about swinging screen doors. The opener, "Is There a Ghost," has the same commercial potential as the radio-friendly track "The Funeral" off their 2006 debut, Everything All the Time. Starting off slow and spooky, "Ghost" crescendos into a guitar-shredding rock song that has more in common with today's indie scene than anything CCR ever wrote. But the album's 21st-century aesthetic seems to drop off after the opening number. "Ode to LRC" is an unabashed love letter to Neil Young's
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Published: 2007-10-09
Provider: Artist Direct
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John Woo Presents StrangleholdDVD Reviews: Ironically for a game premised on its association with arguably the world's greatest action director, "John Woo Presents Stranglehold" is a technological marvel and a storytelling dud. Publisher-developer Midway has done an outstanding job of capturing the slow-mo, high-octane aesthetic of a Woo action scene and making it an interactive experience.
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Published: 2007-09-04
Provider: Variety.com
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The Scene Aesthetic - The Scene AestheticThe Scene Aesthetic by The Scene Aesthetic
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Published: 2007-07-14
Provider: iTunes
Keywords: Rock
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