Artist: Henrietta Album: The Trick is Not Minding Genre: Alternative/Emo Label: Animal Style Henrietta took me by a complete and utter surprise. Maybe I didn’t have my head in the right place, or maybe it was because I wasn’t looking hard enough. Either way, the time it took for Henrietta to make it to my […]
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REVIEW: Henrietta – ‘The Trick Is Not Minding’
August 28th, 2014 
Drew Caruso 
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UTG INTERVIEW: Foxing Discuss ‘The Albatross,’ the Science in ‘Lucy’ and Their Audiotree Session
August 15th, 2014 Drew Caruso On a warm evening in Cambridge, MA, at the venue known as The Middle East, I stood and watched as Foxing came alive on a small stage to a sold out crowd. I witnessed the band pour everything they had into the notes and sounds reverberating from their instruments, bleeding over the crowd, seemingly ill-prepared […]
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REVIEW: The Gaslight Anthem – ‘Get Hurt’
August 12th, 2014 Drew Caruso Artist: The Gaslight Anthem Album: Get Hurt Genre: Alternative Rock Label: Island If you spend too much time attempting to vivisect the songs that make up The Gaslight Anthem’s fifth album, Get Hurt, you may very well miss it entirely. As listeners, we are used to the blue collar, Americana themes presented by the act, […]
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REVIEW: Field Mouse – ‘Hold Still Life’
July 14th, 2014 Drew Caruso Artist: Field Mouse Album: Hold Still Life Genre: Alternative, Shoegaze Label: Topshelf Records Hold Still Life is an adventure fit for any occasion. While keeping a steady collective of pop, melody, and charm, Field Mouse’s sophomore LP is able to play with tones in ways that keep songs fresh, all while consistently holding a formula […]
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SINGLE REVIEW: Basement – “Summer’s Colour”
June 19th, 2014 Drew Caruso Artist: Basement Song: “Summer’s Colour” Album: Further Sky EP Label: Run For Cover Records The beginning chords to Basement’s surprise single “Summer’s Colour” is a feeling of humbling invitation, providing a backdrop for the beginning summer season. I could write for hours on my feelings about the band’s return to music, but I surmise that […]
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Songs For The Season: Summer Playlist
June 19th, 2014 Drew Caruso Summer, the long coveted season for students, teachers, kids, parks, and numerous other interested parties, has always seemed to invigorate the beginning of something new. While it presents a change in season, it also sparks a temperate reinvention. Summer removes the constraints of autumn’s sweatshirts, winter’s coats, spring’s windbreakers, and welcomes humanity in its most […]
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REVIEW: Northernmost – ‘Northernmost’
June 11th, 2014 Drew Caruso Artist: Northernmost Album: Northernmost Genre: Post-Hardcore, Indie Let me first begin by saying I love the name Northernmost. I know one is to not judge a book by its cover, but anyone acclimated with my writing knows just how much I appreciate a northern escapist mindset. With this on the tip of my imagination, when […]
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UTG PREMIERE: Stanley and the Search – “Pinebox”
June 9th, 2014 Drew Caruso We here at Under The Gun are happy to bring you the premiere of “Pinebox” from Stanley and the Search. The track is off of their upcoming album Weightless, due out July 15 via Take This To Heart Records. Weightless is a remaster of the much loved Weight EP, with three bonus tracks. Hailing from […]
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EDITORIAL: Songs To Calm An Anxious Mind
May 27th, 2014 Drew Caruso It was a complete depersonalization and increasing dehumanization. Nothing was real, for everything that was real was hastily slipping away. I began to think of my family, and how they would react once I was gone. I was soon replaying the last conversations we had in my mind, as if I could somehow justify our […]
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REVIEW: Mimicking Birds – ‘EONS’
May 16th, 2014 Drew Caruso Artist: Mimicking Birds Album: EONS Genre: Indie Label: Glacial Pace It has been four years since Mimicking Birds‘ last release, and beyond any type of collected thought or insight I could surmise within the parameters of my keyboard, nothing will be as effective as getting my love for this album across to you besides simply […]
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LIVE REVIEW: S. Carey in Allston, MA (4/17/14)
May 14th, 2014 Drew Caruso Under The Gun Review sent staff writer, Drew Caruso, to the Great Scott in Allston, MA on April, 17 to experience S.Carey with support from White Hinterland and Words Like Earth. If you were unsure, I absolutely loved S. Carey’s new album, Range of Light. It is a masterpiece of sound, highly illuminated by Carey’s […]
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MOVIE REVIEW: ‘The Amazing Spider-Man 2’
May 12th, 2014 Drew Caruso Film: The Amazing Spider-Man 2 Directed By: Marc Webb Starring: Andrew Garfield, Emma Stone, Jamie Foxx, Dane DeHaan The Amazing Spider-Man 2 gets tangled in its own web in all the wrong places, but somehow finds its spider-sense in all the right ones. First off, I need to get something out of the way: The […]