Monthly Archives: December 2010

New Music Review: Passion Pit Works With American Express

Passion Pit (As well as The Antlers and Andrew Bird), in association with American Express’ new ZYNC Campaign, have dropped a new track named “All These Trees,” which is by no means a bad song, but fails to explode into … Continue reading

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New Music Review: Kid Is Qual Covers David Guetta

Kid Is Qual specializes in turning dingy Rock N’ Roll dwellings into, well,  dingy dance clubs.  With a double bass guitar attack (Jon Sullivan and Mike Bryant) and a hammer dropping drum commander in Chris McCLish playing the glute bumping … Continue reading

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SIMGE’s Top Albums Of 2010 (5-1)

5) Bad Books’ Self-Titled Debut Manchester Orchestra isn’t a band afraid of bringing the noise, and when combined with the soothing acoustic stylings of Tri-state area singer-songwriter Kevin Devine, one wouldn’t be surprised, if not expect, the Rock to overtake … Continue reading

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SIMGE’s Top Albums Of 2010 (15-6)

15) White Crosses by Against Me! I dare anyone out there who truly believes Tom Gabel and the rest of Against Me! have gone soft to grow a pair of balls, walk up to these guys next time they come to your … Continue reading

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Speaker Box (12/27-1/2)

TUESDAY: Night 3 Of Bouncing Souls Home For The Holidays Is OFF!   (Photos by Sharon Stein of Black Birds) (Photo By Bouncing Souls) The third night of Bouncing Souls’ Home For The Holidays has been cancelled with no indication … Continue reading

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SIMGE’s Top 35 Albums Of 2010 (25-16)

25) Odd Blood by Yeasayer Prior to the release of Odd Blood, Yeasayer was nothing more than a lowly New York based Art-Rock act that’s debut, All Hour Cymbals, was an inconsiderable production.  Three years later, Yeasayer is one of … Continue reading

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More Christmas Magic!!!!

Yeasayer Gives Away A Free Live Album Do you want to own a live recording of the critically acclaimed and Yeasayer?  Then click right here.

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Merry Christmas From Gorillaz & SIMGE!!!

Thank you all so much for the support these past few months.  To everyone who logs in here now and again, to all the musicians who were kind enough to donate their time to this wannabe music journo, to the … Continue reading

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SIMGE’s Top 35 Albums Of 2010: 35-26

2010 was a great year for music, one of the best we’ve seen in a long time.  Here is a short list of the albums SIMGE loved the most. (NOTE: Is this Russia?  No, this is not Russia.  So, if … Continue reading

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SIMGE’s Best Of 2010 Lists: Artists Pick Em’ (Part 4)

The fourth installment of Artists Pick Em’ features a pair of my schoolmates, Green Paper’s front-man Tomm Hart, and solo artist Matt Huston.  I’m a corny kind of mood, thus, these titles will be of the utmost corn filled. 5 … Continue reading

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