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By Seraphina Lotkhamnga It's been a great year of music. My ears have had such a good year that the task of selecting my top albums has never been harder. Perhaps it's because I've whittled down my usual list of 25 albums to 20 this year.  Some artists on this list made their L.A. debuts this year and some of them have been in the neighborhood for years. Check out my top 20 albums of 2012, with my thoughts on the Top 10, and some honorable mentions after No. 1: [...]

OK, let’s experiment then. Climb into the Delorean with me on this one. February 7 th , 2011. We get two point five minutes of pounding skins and bass growl, guitars seethe and crackle like a jet engine heating up. After liftoff the post-rock casing falls away and we’re left with something else, something that swings and jags like Jumpin’ Jack Flash given years alone in its bedroom and forcefed guitar tone, something that keeps building speed like a, haha, like a rolling stone, not just cold rock but limbs and sweat and mains power that keeps threatening [...]

Self-aware and evocative, Titus Andronicus’ third record is an irreverent middle finger directed at, well, pretty much everyone.

The term "Celebration Rock" comes across as less of a title or even a genre and more like a location: a chunk of stone hurtling through space on which the sweatiest and loudest basement show is perpetually thrown throughout the ages.  Japandroids are no strangers to this genre of traditional garage rock, especially when they were first starting out in Vancouver, British Columbia. They found it difficult to break into a tight-knit local scene so they spent a lot of their time setting up house shows and adhering to the kind of DIY lifestyle that inherently fuels bands [...]

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by teepoo Quick video review of Japandroids Celebration Rock . How did you like it? Let me know! Tracklist 1 The Nights Of Wine And Roses 2 Fire's Highway 3 Evil's Sway 4 For The Love Of Ivy 5 Adrenaline Nightshift 6 Younger Us 7 The House That Heaven Built 8 Continuous Thunder BUY THIS ALBUM Polyvinyl | iTunes

3 years removed from their debut release, the not-so-aptly-named Vancouver duo Japandroids is back with Celebration Rock, a fun,raucous album that plays true to it's name.  The album kicks off with fireworks, and keeps the celebration rollin' through 8 tracks of good times and rock and roll. Throughout the course of it's 35 minute play time, Celebration Rock manages to conjure up a great deal of nostalgia.  For a music fan such as myself who got his chops in the turn of the century punk/indie/hardcore/whatever you want to call it scene - this record brings back shades of [...]

Japandroids Celebration Rock Polyvinyl The rock anthem, that old Rock 'N' Roll standard birthed in the arenas of the '70, popularized by the likes of The Boss and Jon Bon, bastardized by hair metal in the '80s and emo in the '90s and Nickelback, and co-opted by pop singers and punks alike, has seen a resurgence in recent years thanks to bands like The Hold Steady, The Gaslight Anthem and Japandroids who have taken a no nonsense approach to a form which once based its very existence on the notion of [...]

• Japandroids - The House that Heaven Built

It’s usually a record’s intricacies that allow people to connect with an album on a more personal level. It could be something as visible as an unusual phrasing of a lyric or something as small as the creaking floor on "For Emma, Forever Ago", but when someone really loves an album, they embrace every inch of its sound and dive into it headfirst. Then how can anyone truly love Celebration Rock ? It’s clear within about 15 seconds of the record’s first track that these guys don’t specialize in subtlety (the album opens and closes [...]

You all already know what Japandroids sound like. That Celebration Rock looks near identical to 2009’s storming Post-Nothing , hell, that it’s called Celebration Rock , is beyond apt. With the title of their debut proper, Brian King and David Prowse had coined a term by which the songs contained therein could be delineated, rock music blasted out by a duo so close to breaking in two as to be free from the foibles of genre and terminology, but savvy to those [...]

Think of being young, and summer likely comes to mind. It’s a classic trope of American youth that our summers were full of wild rides, big parties, and love affairs. We jumped in the pool fully clothed and smoked cigarettes outside the show, soaked in sweat, bruised from the pit. Summer tempts us to be that kid again, 17 and without responsibilities, brimming with hopes and passions. We got a taste of that kid’s youthful ambitions on the Japandroids ’ debut, 2009’s Post-Nothing , and appropriately we find him grown up a bit on their sophomore [...]

There have been better writers and hispter-er hipsters write about this album so I'll keep it short and sweet. I thought their debut Post-Nothing was OK, but I didn't get what all the fuss was about. But after reading a million and one great reviews on Celebration Rock, I got home from work and cranked it up on the ol' soundsystem. In the 35 minutes of fist-pumping, donkey-kick inducing; air-guitar playing, blast of straight up rock and roll - I downed two beers and a bourbon. If these guys were around when I was in college, I might have blacked [...]

Japandroids - Celebration Rock In 2009, Vancouver duo Japandroids (guitarist/singer Brian King and drummer/singer David Prowse) released their debut album, Post-Nothing , a unique blend of fuzzed out, distortion-heavy guitar muscle and air drum-worthy percussive weight that matched ‘90s rock ‘n’ roll volume and tone with garage rock’s blistering, energetic edge. It was one of the most critically acclaimed releases of that year, which inevitably lead to questions as to what would come next. [...]

• Japandroids - The House That Heaven Built

This may, or may not, seem obvious, but dinner doesn't have to be demure and restrained. In fact, some of the best meals are lively, boisterous experiences with friends and family all talking, clinking glasses, and maybe having one too many beers or glasses of wine. And, of course, a lively meal needs a lively soundtrack. If that's the vibe you're going for you'd do well to rock the new Japandroids' album Celebration Rock with some friends over a steaming plate of slow food. For those who aren't familiar with the Vancouver, British Columbia duo, I'll [...]

Japandroids’ return to the fray sounds a little more compressed than their all-out debut. Fear not, the alt-rock amplification is still dialled to the max, there’s just no spill around the edges: a good thing. We get more pop drip-fed into the frenetic rhythms, heart-attack tempos and fried guitars that run through Celebration Rock from start to finish. Such is the relentless energy of the Vancouver duo you fear the whole deal could derail at any moment, and grinding on those brakes only throws out more sparks. So when track two, Fire’s Highway , opens [...]

Craving a side of joyful anger with your mashed taters? Japandroids serves it up with Celebration Rock, an album sprinkled with napalm.

Japandroids know that you can't call an album Celebration Rock  and not  start and end it with the sound of fireworks. Of course, that leaves its reviewers with one less metaphor to play with, but what can you do? Just imagine I've already said something about the record fizzing and popping with excitement, and we can get down to business. Anyway, that's how 'The Nights of Wine and Roses' kicks off, fading in on a wave of fireworks, feedback and distant drums; then, after a slow walk towards the band, the noise hits you right [...]

Opening and closing an album with fireworks would go down as arrogance in most people’s books, but Japandroids just about pull it off. And that’s because there’s nothing egotistical about the Canadian duo’s second full-length record - it genuinely unfolds to reveal an intense and emotional celebration of good times, raising a glass to the past and embracing life. For those reasons Celebration Rock couldn’t have been more aptly titled: 35 minutes of maximal, expressive rock music. In 2009 Japandroids released their debut LP, Post-Nothing , and while their expressive liberation hasn’t been lost [...]

Why do we celebrate? It might just be our most universal ritual, but it’s also unique to time, place, and culture, and it’s a little different for everyone. It’s a joyous thing, but otherwise there are no real rules. Whether you want to preserve, uphold, commemorate or just forget, there’s a good chance that Japandroids can empathize. After the failed promise of five singles in 2010 and a brief breakup, Japandroids have unleashed a follow-up to the infectious Post-Nothing . Make no mistake, they’re still the same lovably shabby garage rockers, but Celebration Rock is [...]

On May 29th Vancouver's Japandroids will return with Celebration Rock , their highly-anticipated sophomore full length. The duo won't disappoint existing fans as their relentless guitar squeal and fuzz are still present, as is their boundless energy.  New fans should be flocking to Japandroids' side as well.  By taking more care in fleshing out song structures, these tracks are made far more accessible to folks who may have been daunted by the sometimes impenetrable fortress of sound of the past. The album kicks off with the boisterous "The Night of Wine [...]