• Best of Lists,  BritPop

    Mark’s Top Five of 2013

    Time to once again tap into my inner Cusack and reveal my Top Five Albums of 2013. 5. Antiphon by Midlake After the departure of lead vocalist and founding member Tim Smith, Midlake has been born again with a much more powerful…

  • Best of Lists

    Markadelphia’s Best of the Noughties

    The last decade of music was fucking amazing. One would think that being the Brit Rock maniac that I am I would be all about the 90s. While I did enjoy that decade, the music that came out in the…

  • Rock

    A Bloody Rager: Arctic Monkeys at First Avenue

    A few years back, a couple of guys on my tennis team were talking. Let’s call them Jim and John. Jim, the older brother of John, was talking about a party that John had recently while their parents were away.…

  • BritPop

    You Say You Want a Revolution?

     Shh. Be very quiet. If you listen closely you can hear the sound of good music coming from across the pond. It’s tough to hear, I know, over the American Music Industry’s insistence at flooding our ears with the drivel…