After a small South American tour, a line-up change, and a relatively quiet 2009, British band Los Campesinos! return with Romance Is Boring, the follow-up to 2008’s We Are Beautiful, We Are Doomed. Formed four years ago at Cardiff University, Wales, Los Campesinos! consists of seven members (none of whom are Welsh, strangely enough) who have all adopted the last name Campesinos! (Spanish for “country person”) along with a knack for writing upbeat indie pop.
Los Campesinos! is signed to one of my favorite labels, Arts & Crafts (Canada), alongside such …

Boy bands from this era were all about feelin’ good and partyin’ inoffensively, so naturally I thought that “Get Down” would be a call-to-arms for tweens trying to throw dance parties in their parents’ basements. Time would teach me that any party informed by b4-4’s song and thrown by middle schoolers would be disgusting.

Every Friday afternoon DJs, directors and trainees vote on what music makes it to A-list, what ends up on B-list, and what just sucks.
The are the albums have made the cut at WCWM 90.9FM this week, including a few samples for your listening pleasure.

I feel like a bit of an ingrate. I got the latest Eels album and it’s not very good. This itself is unremarkable: I own several albums, and Eels has made bad ones before. The remarkable thing is that the album isn’t even out at the time of this writing. Also, I didn’t steal it from the internet. Their label was kind enough to send me the whole thing –unsolicited I might add — in hopes that I would enjoy it and talk it up a bit. That seems unusually …

Few years were more important in musical history than 1967. Best known for the Summer of Love, the year also saw debut albums from Jimi Hendrix, The Doors, The Grateful Dead, and the Velvet Underground as well as memorable releases by The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, Jefferson Airplane, and Aretha Franklin. Also Gavin Rossdale was born on October 30, which I guess is important to Gwen Stefani and maybe someone else… So anyway, in honor of this most historic year in music, I present you with my thoroughly …