• “Little Lion Man” by Mumford & Sons
Four British folkies get powerfully desperate on this stomping, banjo-heavy track.
Sawtooth says:
As for the characterization that this song is inspired by bluegrass music, I just don’t see it. It reminds me more of the Irish folk-punk of bands like The Pogues, but maybe I’m just pulling a “no [...]

…And so 2010 comes to a close.
A varied many things happened this year in American music. Some good, some bad, some confusing as all hell. This was the year that pop’s finest got together to make a terrible song to benefit Haiti, the world decided that high school students singing sparkly covers of songs were [...]

I consider myself kind of a purist. If I hear a really great, and truly timeless song, often times I think “That’s it. That’s the end all right there. That’s the version of the song we are gonna stick with, because it’s awesome, and everybody knows it.” Other people don’t quite see it the same [...]

Usually demo sets have a distinct low fidelity quality to them, but Ryli’s set of demos doesn’t suffer from this, and the average listener might not even think it was produced art the artist’s home. The Demo is a collection of fun, not-quite ambient rock songs which come in both lyrical and instrumental varieties.

September 11th, 2001 was a pretty low point in our nation’s history. It took us a long time to come back from over 3000 dead in a single day, but believe it or not some good came out of the catastrophe in the coming weeks. Americans found themselves more united than they had been in [...]

I don’t know why Jonah can’t seem to settle down with a band, but despite the number of people he has worked with and the amount of adaptation that requires, he has managed to impress in a number of different genres. This album is more solo-acoustic than New End Original or Far, but it is a prime example of the quality that goes into Jonah Matranga’s music endeavors.

Vendetta Red is one of those bands that doesn’t dive into a sub-genre pool. Rather, they test the waters of a few and then wade around knee-deep in them. Cut Your Noose is a good example of this; they occasionally taste of screamo, but Zach Davidson doesn’t want all his lyric writing talent to go to waste, and they don’t have enough heavy riffs to be considered hard rock.