Who was a band I listened to a lot when I was young that I still go back to sometimes? Here’s a short little story: Back in middle school I had one of those tiny iPod Nano’s, it was basically my first piece of technology that I owned. I didn’t really have a ton of resources to discover new music at that age, but I still managed. What I did have, though, was a sister who was six years older than me. So when I got my iPod, I downloaded music we already had from iTunes on our ho

I had a very unique childhood, or more accurately put, my mother put me on to artists I still listen to today, which probably makes me sound like a pompous idiot. But that previous statement would be inaccurate if I didn’t still listen to Dance Gavin Dance’s first LP entitled Downtown Battle Mountain. I’ve written on this band before for the blog, but after last year’s release of Afterburner, I figure it is best to dive back into how this album has changed as I listen to it n