What Does Your Favorite Band Say About You?

Answer: everything.

You favorite band writes the songs you want to but can't. They shape you to be the person you are, they affect every corner of your life in one way or another. They're a really big deal, basically.

So yeah, if you tell me Taylor Swift or Lady Gaga or Hinder or Nickelback or Hollywood Undead are your favorite singer/band I am going to judge you.

You've been warned.
--Jessica

No One Cares About The Grammy's

Or at least I don't. Especially when the Grammy people commit such heinous crimes like giving Kanye West getting 7 nominations and Bruno Mars getting 6 and Kings of Leon getting a 'Best Rock Album' nomination.

Maybe I got too over-excited for the Grammys since I know last year Arcade Fire's The Suburbs won and I decided that The Grammy's were cool. I was wrong.

To see all of the nominations and get angry with me, go here.

To go listen to actual music and not get angry, go here.

--Jessica

Great Covers

AFI is the greatest band ever. Their cover of David Bowie's "Ziggy Stardust" is one of my favorites things ever. And song.

I LOVE this song. And I love it just as much when Silverstein does it.

I don't like Kings of Leon. But Paramore's cover of "Use Somebody" is amazing.

I'm not a Johnny Cash fan. At all. He was a great artist, he's just not my genre. But this cover of Nine Inch Nail's "Hurt" is....yeah, just listen.

The Offspring covering AFI's "Total Immortal". Legend, waitforitIhopeyou'renotlactoseintollerantcausethisnextpartis DARY!

Quietdrive should be more popular.

Just for you, Jess.

~Jamie

Next Review

SO. I WAS going to do a review of Four Year Strong's new CD soon. So I went and ordered it on Amazon, and the ASSWHOLES SENT ME A CRACKED CD!!!! Needless to say, I'm sending it back and getting a new one. ASSWHOLES!

Anyway, here's a hint of what my next post is going to be about:

Hoobastank is amazing. Should find out if they're releasing anything new anytime soon...
~Jamie

Panic! at the Disco--Vices and Virtues Review

Artist: Panic! At The Disco
CD title: Vices & Virtues
Release Date: March 18, 2011
Genre: Pop, rock, alternative pop rock, dance
How I Got It: Bought
Sounds like: Their first CD...and their second CD. (People keep comparing them to FOB but I don't get WHY.)
Favorite song: Always, The Ballad of Mona Lisa, Nearly Witches (Ever Since We Met)
Makes you wanna: Daaance and sing along.
Best to listen to: In the car.

Jamie hates these guys. I don't know why she does, ask her. All I know is that I pretty much love Panic! at the Disco.

Their first CD (A Fever You Can't Sweat Out) was full of alternative-electro-poppy-dance tunes that everyone loved. Which is why everyone was shocked when they decided to change their sound in their next CD (Pretty. Odd.) to some kind of Beatles-rip off band. I'm among the few that actually liked Pretty. Odd. I think. It wasn't as good as the first CD, but I didn't think it was bad either. There were actually a few songs that I really liked.

Well, after two of the band members left and the ! after the word "Panic" returned, they put out this CD. Honestly, I think those two band members leaving was the best thing that could've happened to this band, because this CD's much better than Pretty. Odd.

In many ways, it's like the two CDs had a baby. A much more mature baby. It's this CD's maturity that makes this the band's best release yet, I think. The edgy, dark tones are much more present in this than they were in the last CD, and I think it's that that I'm most grateful for.

Favorite song: Always, The Ballad of Mona Lisa, Nearly Witches (Ever Since We Met)

At first listen, Always sounds like a happy love song. It is, in fast, a really effing depressing love song. And I love it. That's all I'm gonna say about that.

The Ballad of Mona Lisa is the first song I heard from this CD, and after I heard it and it was stuck in my head all day I broke my own rule and bought it. It was a need, not a want, a need. I love this song; it's energetic and perfect to sing along to.

Nearly Witches (Ever Since We Met) is completely different than any of the other songs on the CD. It's suave and smooth but also full of Panic!'s infamous electronic sound. Basically, that song is my jam.

Makes you wanna: Daaance and sing along.

Self-explanatory.

Best to listen to: In the car.

Maybe it's just because my mom, brother, and sister (she texted me one day proclaiming her love for them, and acted like I'd never heard of them after I'd had their CDs for twenty years. It was weird) all love this band too, but it's a perfect car CD. It makes you feel like you're on the top of the world and it's great. This CD is great. Pick it up if their second CD disappointed you.

--Jessica

Just felt like sharing

Because it's amazing.

~Jamie

Jamestown Story's new CD!!!!

Soooo appearing on Itunes tonight, at midnight, is Jamestown Story's new CD "A Walk Through Time"! These guys are AMAZING, both Jess and I LOVE them, so we're REALLY looking forward to it!!!! You can stream a bunch of it on Purevolume now (link below) so definitely go check them out! (And maybe buy the CD...;) )

Purevolume link:
http://www.purevolume.com/new/jamestownstory

Youtube:

See? Awesome! :D