EVERYBODY ELSE - Everybody Else Review

I have a tattoo on my collarbone that scribes the word “simplicity.” It’s an ode to an ultimate lifestyle that I only hope to aspire. I want to live my life to the simplest forms, taking pleasure from the simplest of things. Sitting by a campfire, Taco Bell, good book or take music, for example – listening to music, absorbing music, and breathing music. When a band makes simplistically fantastic music, it is tremendous and irresistible. It provokes swells of joy and content with, in all literalness, a push of a play button. When I listen to other bands, I rarely appreciate music for its bare, bottom line beauty, but I sure as hell wish I did....full text Have you ever heard a new band and thought to yourself, “this reminds me of something but I can’t quite put my finger on it?” Usually that means the band’s many influences have bubbled to the surface, but they still have their own identity. Then, if the songs are actually good, it’s a bonus. I give you the latest example of this – Los Angeles rock trio Everybody Else. Their name stems from a Kinks B-side, and not from the fact that they sound like, well, you know....full text It had been a hectic ten days for me here in the little cubicle assigned to me at Blogcritics' HQ. I had a huge pile of CDs to review stacked up on my desk that threatened to topple over if I even looked at them, no less grabbed one to play. ...full text