Even though it has become painfully cliché for a music reviewer to reference it whenever mentioning the historic Long Island outfits Brand New and Taking Back Sunday, it is true…
Alexander Scalfano
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It’s crazy I wake but layers of a dream Lay over everyone I see But how is it so, my world looks different now but no one knows? —”As Above,…
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With the arrival of Taking Back Sunday’s 20th anniversary compilation albumsignaling to emo kids everywhere that they are now in their 30s or 40s (eek!), it feels like the right…
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Around 2005, pop-punk’s glorious infusion with emo sensibilities and subject matter reached its artistic (and commercial) peak. With albums like Motion City Soundtrack’s Commit This To Memory, The Starting Line’s…
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Though like the wanderer, the sun gone down, Darkness be over me, my rest a stone; Yet in my dreams I’d be nearer, my God, to Thee, Nearer, my God,…
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When I first picked up Catch For Us The Foxesback in high school, my first foray into the band’s catalogue) I couldn’t put it down. Not only does it completely…
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In order to talk about this album, it’s impossible for me not to talk about everything that I love about Mike Kinsella. Mike Kinsella is Owen. He plays every instrument and…