The Strafing Run: A Friday Night in State College
Hello again, dear readers! I wanted to give you a glimpse into the town and music scene I’m currently a part of. What better way than taking you through a typical Friday night in the teeming metropolis...
View ArticleThe Strafing Run: Direct Hit! A Review of Cloud Nothings//Attack On Memory
Well hello again, sweet dear reader. I hope you’ve been well since last we met. Me? Oh, I’ve been fine. Drinking coffee, munchin’ on carrots, listening to great music, the usual. What have I been...
View ArticleDrew and Jen’s South by Southwest 2012 Wishlist
Two years ago in 2010 I flew down to Austin, Texas to embark on an debacherous, adventurous week at South by Southwest Festival. I was covering the music portion of the festival as a college...
View ArticleThe Top 25 of 2012 (A Stereogum Rebuttal)
If I’ve learned anything from surfing the Interweb, it’s that people love lists. Top ten lists, grocery lists, “best of” lists; You make a list, people are going to read it, out of curiosity if nothing...
View ArticleListen to the Artists from Volume #2, Issue #14
Listen to nine tracks from the artists in this week’s issue below via 8tracks.com/thebomberjacket.
View ArticleCloud Nothings: Original and Never Getting Old, or Memory vs. Slightly Older...
Throwbacks to styles of music from previous decades and generations have been toyed with a lot in the past decade within this thing we’re going to call “indie” music. Whereas it can be fun to relive...
View ArticleBob Mould’s Silver Age Worth at Least A Silver Medal
Bob Mould (Merge Records), is the musical equivalent of grandma’s fancy silverware. Old, perfectly functional, beautiful to look at, locked in another era, more ornate then its newer contemporaries,...
View ArticleTy Segall Makes Us Feel Lazy by Releasing Third Album This Year, Twins
I mean, seriously Ty Segall. We get it. You’re a rising badass star musician laying down killer riff after killer riff, leaving smoking craters of rock destruction in your wake at show after show....
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