I say that because it seems like everyone's favorite album of 2007 was either Arcade Fire's "Neon Bible" or Kanye West's new one.
I can also understand the love Spoon & bands like The National and Radiohead received this year, but here's the thing.

I'm Not an indie kid, not saying you have to be, but that just seems to be what the vast majority of last.fm users and album reviewers seem to be today. Nearly all of my shared iTunes libraries at college consist of bands like I just mentioned plus some M.I.A. & Of Montreal.…

Aside from hanging out with friends and the summer partying I've spent much of my time during this summer between my high school graduation and the start of my freshman year at San Francisco State University by seeing a good deal of concerts in my area, and during my time at home, listening to tons of new albums.

I'll start with the concerts I've been to this summer.

The First concert I'd seen since Sick Puppies back in April was
6-20-07
Bowling For Soup
@ Sonoma County Fairgrounds in Petaluma, CA
Best thing about this show was that it was…

I'll start with the concerts I've seen so far in 2007 'cause It's not all that extensive of a list:

Taste of Chaos Tour in San Francisco, CA
2/17/07
Bill Graham Civic Auditorium w/
The Used
30 Seconds To Mars
Senses Fail
Saosin
Chiodos
Aiden
Evaline
& Local band winner My Former Self

The "Taste of Emo" tour made its 2nd stop of the tour in SF this year. No question what the demographic of the audience was with the vast majority of it being kids (many in black or with a good deal of white make-up) between anywhere from…

Last Sunday Night (1/14) was HUGE for me. I co-hosted Live 105's Soundcheck "Crystal ball" new bands New music special for 2007 w/ Music Director aaron Axelsen & Miles The Intern. Live 105 is San Francisco's alternative rock station.
www.live105.com
How'd I get to do that?
I've knowmn Aaron since I was 12 and went into the radio station twice in 2006 and saw him when I was a part of the Soundcheck new music meeting and had my own hour long radio show called "Listener Livespace". I e-mailed him some requests 2 weeks ago and he e-mailed me back…

Everybody’s Doing it…
I gotta write a big year in review journal to show what I loved about music in 2006.
A few of my favorites returned this year with albums including Sugarcult with “Lights Out” & Butch Walker With, “The Rise & Fall of Butch Walker and The Let’s-Go-Out-Tonites!” & I discovered awesome new bands like Thriving Ivory, Sick Puppies, The Classic Crime & Family Force 5 To name a very limited few.
I’ll start with My top 10 albums of 2006 which has taken me a damn long time to narrow down:
1. Thriving Ivory –…

I’ve been meaning to write this journal for over a month now, since mid-July I’ve heard a TON of NEW music and been to a few GREAT shows.
I’ll start out with the shows I’ve seen since I last wrote.
First was a show I saw on July 20th in my hometown of Petaluma, CA at The Phoenix Theater (Immortalized by AFI’s song “The Days of The Phoenix”) with Hourcast, Envy on the Coast, June, & one of my favorites, 30 Seconds To Mars. Walkin around Downtown before the show My friend Chris & I…

It's been 2 months since I wrote anything so there's a lot to talk about regarding new music and other music related things.
Guess I'll start out by talking about a new show on CBS that people need to be watchin. "Rockstar: Supernova"
It's a search for a lead singer. Last season it was for INXS , but I wasn't interested. This season is different.
The new Supergroup Supernova consists of Drummer Tommy Lee of Motley Crue Fame, Jason Newstead formerly of Metallica, & Gilby Clarke from Guns 'N' Roses (Sp?). The thing that made me really interested in…

Well…between being groped by an overweight 30 year old woman, rocker mom's with their toddlers, a surprise meet & greet, rednecks, and some cool high school kids…like myself. Faktion, Hinder, and Theory of a Deadman came together at The Wells Fargo Center in Santa Rosa, CA friday nught May 12th and played a pretty damn rockin' show.

First off was Faktion who most seemed unfamiliar with and a lot hadn't bothered to enter the seating area at first managed to win over the crowd quickly with rockers like "Control" & "Six O'clock" and did a very cool half…

1. Red Hot Chili Peppers - (95 Plays):
If you release an album with 28 tracks and I listen multiple times you're going to be the top artist of the week. I got "Stadium Arcadium" and on first listen found maybe 2 other tracks besides "Dani California" that I could say I enjoyed. After more listens I started liking more & more tracks and today with my friend blasting it in his car, I began to like more of the songs. This album has gone from a disappointment to a very cool record in a few days. Favorites being "Especially…

Guess I'll start with my top 10 favorite new tracks of this year. It's still an incredibly early and I'm sure this entire list will be different even after next week.

1. Thriving Ivory - "Angels On The Moon"
I was turned on to this band by the radio of all things. Live 105 here in San Francisco put a local unsigned band on their playlist and this song is just epic. Piano/rock similar to Augustana and The Fray. These guys are destined for Great things and their debut album will be put out within the next few weeks.…