
Artist: Secondhand Serenade Album: Awake Release Date: January 10, 2007 I'm not going to try to suggest to you that Secondhand Serenade is anything other than a poor man's Dashboard Confessional. In fact, Awake is overlong, hyper-melodramatic, and decidedly self-indulgent (it's a glorified mixtape for singer-songwriter John Vesely's wife). There's very little socially redeeming value in the album, other than the fact that John Vesely strikes me as a really nice guy. But my show ended today (for those who don't know me, I'm a [...]