When I received Laura Bell Bundy's new two disk album, 'Achin' and Shakin', I expected something close to a Carrie Underwood sound. I was completely wrong. The album had 12 songs, but the songs were...

I had never heard of the Future Kings of Nowhere before I heard this album, but I am undoubtedly impressed. Though it's a free download, I would not hesitate to pay large sums of cash just to hear...

"Everything Collide" is Sing It Loud's sophomore album. The first time I listened to this album I was not blown away by the album as a whole. All of the faster songs sounded the same and I could not decipher...

Buy stock in Monsanto. Invest in solid gold. Sell Microsoft shares. This sounds like advice from a typical economist, but economist and author Steven Levitt is far from orthodox. In each chapter of "Freakonomics,"...

As I would expect most of you to know, Green Day had huge success with their album "American Idiot." "The album sold over 15 million copies, went platinum five times and won a grammy for best rock album,"...

I must admit, it is hard for me to get interested in a TV series. Many shows simply do not hold my interest for more than a few weeks, or I become unhappy with a show after a couple of minutes. However,...

Now, I might be a little biased because I have been an enormous OK Go fan for many years and quite frankly, I have had high expectations for this show and fortunately they took my expectations and blew...

Cliches are one of those terms in literature that I hate to use, but when listening to one man band, Henry Dillard's Without a Face, it is true that you should not judge a book (or album in this case)...

Released on November 17 last fall, "Waking Up" is rock band OneRepublic's sophomore album. Featuring 11 tracks with a total playtime of around 50 minutes, the album features less tracks than the average...

A playful guitar rings in the first track. It slowly leads up to chords, then violen, and then Alexander Hudjohn's punk voice, similar to a younger Chuck Ragan, completes this this glorious equation....

Literature classes will often teach you about classics. They tell you exactly which ruggedly-bound books tell the stories that we'll be analyzing for ages. It is not often that one will run into a contemporary...

Before even purchasing The Rocket Summer's "Of Men and Angels," I was met with high expectations. Knowing that it was sold out in many stores, I thought it had to be a fantastic album. For the most part,...