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REVIEW: This Town Needs Guns – 13.0.0.0.0

Artist: This Town Needs Guns Album: 13.0.0.0.0 Genre: Math rock, Indie rock Label: Sargent House Bands work out the kinks on the fly. There are no minor leagues for music making; if you can’t produce right away, you likely never get an at-bat. This Town Needs Guns have found a way around this: their debut […]

UTG LIST: Best Albums of 2012

All year the Under the Gun Review staff has weighed in on what we thought about the albums the music scene had to offer. This year has been good to us musically, but it’s a really hard process to shave down to our ten favorites of the year. As you’ll see when you read through […]

CONCERT REVIEW: David Bazan Band – ‘Control’ Tenth Anniversary

There are only a handful of concerts that can be more than a fun night out for you and whoever you show go with. When I saw Jeff Mangum, it meant the world to me because those songs meant the world to me, and I never thought I would have the opportunity to see him […]

REVIEW: Soundgarden – King Animal

Artist: Soundgarden Album: King Animal Genre: Rock A band’s return is a scary thing. Too often reviewers will be quick to point out the length between the band’s working together, and if the album is good, the time away is the reason the band wrote with passion now. If the album sucks, the time apart […]

LIVE REVIEW: Gwar – Toad’s Place, New Haven, Connecticut 10/15/2012

There are generally two kinds of live shows I go to: shows where you see some bands that you put on a pedestal; you worship them wherever they go and you have to know everything they do, they swallow you whole and devour your soul. Your taste curbs to their output, even when it shames […]

REVIEW: Peace’d Out – Peace’d Out

Artist: Peace’d Out Album: Peace’d Out Genre: Hardcore Label: Siren The last time I was in New York City, my friend Billy and I had cupcakes from Magnolia’s on 53rd street, and then we got vanilla milkshakes at a Mr. Softy’s. I’d never had Mr. Softy before, and the woman running the show immediately told […]

REVIEW: Ben Gibbard – Former Lives

Artist: Ben Gibbard Album: Former Lives Label: Barsuck I always thought of Death Cab For Cutie as a Ben Gibbard experience. It made me wonder why he would ever need a solo album – so much of Death Cab is just one man, and so much of it is clearly just written by one guy […]

REVIEW: Godspeed You! Black Emperor – Allelujah! Don’t Bend! Ascend!

Artist: Godspeed You! Black Emperor Album: ‘Allelujah! Don’t Bend! Ascend! Genre: Post-Rock Label: Constellation Records I was fourteen years old when 28 Days Later came out in theaters, and I was fifteen when I finally got to see it on DVD at a friend’s house. It began a lifelong and slightly idiotic obsession with zombies […]

REVIEW: Muse – The 2nd Law

Artist: Muse Album: The 2nd Law Genre: Alternative Rock Label: Helium 3 / Warner Muse has been one of my favorite bands dating back to early high school when I first heard “New born” off of Origin of Symmetry and swore that a classical composer had formed the next great rock band. I loved that […]

REVIEW: No Doubt – Push and Shove

Artist: No Doubt Album: Push and Shove Genre: Alternative Rock, Pop rock Label: Interscope Records No Doubt has always been hip to trends. Tragic Kingdom and the Beacon Street Collection were very 90s, and some fans will probably mistake that as being very No Doubt. Return to Saturn was very 2000, very much about rock […]