The Freelance Whales live set is packed full of energy, big harmonies, and carefully placed instrumentation.  They play with confidence and have the sheen of a well polished machine, though they have only been playing as a band for 3 short years.  I patiently waited for this album to drop, after seeing them twice, and…

“Don’t you want me to wake up?/Then give me just a bit of your time Arguments are made from make outs/So give it just a little more time” When the chorus kicks in on “Dance Yerself Clean,” the This Is Happening opener, you can’t help but get spastic!  For real…the song does everything in it’s…

Butch Walker is one of my favorite artists.  He can do no wrong in my eyes.  His production work with countless pop acts, confirms this.  Butch puts his stamp on everything he touches, and once you become a fan, you’ll notice his handiwork.  His catalog consists of  many great artists including Pete Yorn, Fall Out…

“How’m I gonna see/Where you coming from/If you keep, keeping me in the dark.”  In The Dark, is a straight forward rock album, in every sense of the word.  It comes complete with big, hooky choruses, gigantic guitars, and gargantuan guitar riffs.  The Whigs toured endlessly in ’08 and in ’09, and these songs show…