My Top 18 Records Of 2018. #1. Parquet Courts -Wide Awake!
1) Parquet Courts – Wide Awake! Parquet Courts transcends what music should be and who it should appeal to. They’ve gone from a little indie band who got their start […]
1) Parquet Courts – Wide Awake! Parquet Courts transcends what music should be and who it should appeal to. They’ve gone from a little indie band who got their start […]
2) Matthew Thiessen and the Earthquakes – Wind Up Bird Twenty years after he formed the pop-punk band that would come to dominate youth groups across America, Matthew Thiessen finally […]
3) MxPx – MxPx Twenty-five years and twelve albums in, MxPx have made the best record of their career with their self released, self titled 2018 release. I wouldn’t dare […]
4) Fucked Up – Dose Your Dreams Yes, the name, the name, the freaking name. I’m sure in the early days it was a double-edged sword, if there ever was […]
5) Ethan Luck – Let It Burn From the punk-ska of The Dingees in the 90s, to stints in Relient K, Demon Hunter, and The O.C. Supertones….Ethan Luck has done […]
6) Off Road Minivan – Spiral Gaze EP This is what happens when emo kids grow up. The lone extended play on my list, Off Road Minivan’s debut is the […]
7) The Internet – Hive Mind If you’re familiar with Odd Future, or OFWGKTA, or (ok, let’s spell it out) Odd Future Wolf Gang Kill Them All, you’re forgiven for […]
8) Stryper – God Damn Evil Called it dated. Call it corny. Call its title controversial for the sake of being controversial. There’s a space between those words, right? RIGHT? […]
9) Jeff Whalen – Ten More Rock Super Hits At the risk of sounding like a music snob, I’m going to tell you that the self-titled Tsar record (Hollywood Records, […]
10) The Men – Drift From the scuzzy punk rock of their earliest releases, to a complete embrace of Americana, to the county and surf-ish mashup of 2013’s New Moon (I know, […]