#10) Rezn-Calm Black Water Chicago-based stoner quartet, Rezn, follow up 2017’s Let it Burn with a sophomore effort illustrating a maturation in the group’s songwriting abilities. Rezn implements a jam-oriented sound with sprawling tracks seemingly influenced by nostalgic, groove-based psych rock with just enough fuzz in their tone to appeal to modern audiences as well. […]
Month: December 2018
The LookOut’s Top 10 Punk Albums of 2018
#10) Little Ugly Girls–Little Ugly Girls Despite landing opening spots for legendary punk acts in the early ’90s such as Fugazi and Bikini Kill, the Australian “riot grrl” act known as Little Ugly Girls waited until 2018 to release their debut full length album. This record is both emotionally and instrumentally explosive and if it […]
The LookOut’s Top 10 Hip Hop/Rap Albums of 2018
#10) Sitcom–Be the One You Love If you are familiar with this record, you may be surprised to see it on this particular year end list, but I personally feel like Be the One You Love is a rap album at its core despite often being described as “bedroom pop.” In the past few years, […]
METAL MONDAY: 2 AMAZING NEW METAL ALBUMS YOU MAY HAVE MISSED!!!
Forest of Shadows–Among the Dormant Watchers Genre: Doom Metal, Melodic Death Metal, Post Metal, Symphonic Metal, Folk Metal FFO: Evoken, Bell Witch, Hooded Menace With a career spanning over two decades, it’s surprising that this record is only the third LP from this Swedish metal outfit. Quality over quantity I suppose. Among the Dormant Watchers […]
The LookOut’s Top 10 Rock/Pop Albums of 2018
It’s that time of year again! Here are my top 10 favorite albums of 2018 specifically regarding rock/pop releases. I will be doing different lists for various genres leading up to the end of the year. #10) Teenage Wrist–Chrome Neon Jesus In few years past, we’ve seen bands emerging from the pop punk/emo scene shifting […]
RECENT ROCK/POP RELEASES: 4 AMAZING NEW ALBUMS YOU MAY HAVE MISSED!!!!
Crookedhead–Blink a Few Times Genre: Alternative Rock, Progressive Rock, Jangle Pop, Post Punk, Heavy Metal, Emo FFO: Thin Lizzy, The Fucking Champs, hoops The debut release from Hadley resident Zachary Sawmiller proves that vocal performances and lyricism are not always mandatory to convey powerful emotion through your music. Performing under the name Crookedhead, Sawmiller wrote, […]
METAL MONDAY: 3 AMAZING NEW METAL ALBUMS YOU MAY HAVE MISSED!!!
Don’t start crafting your top music lists for this year just yet! We still have a few weeks left of awesome music and this week I will be sharing a few awesome, new Metal albums that really stood out to me. Chapel of Disease-“…and as We Have Seen the Storm, We Have Embraced the Eye” […]