Some of you may have noticed that we added a new feature to the site recently in the form of a page that allows readers to submit their own tracks for review. We added this in hopes of uncovering even more new music for our readers that we may not have otherwise found through our [...]

Here we are, less than a week from the first major slew of 2010 releases dropping, and I still have some unfinished 2009 business to attend to. There are a bunch of records released in the last quarter of last year that we didn’t get to, but for me, the most important one to weigh [...]

If there is a record I feel most sheepish about not covering on these pages in 2009, it is The Rural Alberta Advantage’s brilliantly pastoral Hometowns.  OK, I’ll throw Merriweather Post Pavilion on there, too, but I feel way worse about Hometowns because I liked it way more.
As good as it is, and it is [...]

PJ Bond is the kind of guy who absolutely rules open mic sessions. The guy who could play for 6 hours without repeating a song, if only the owner let him. The kind of guy who plays 14 songs you’ve never heard before and all of which you love, but you don’t want to tell [...]

Danish art pop. A delightful band name that amounts to a pun about one of the most infamous women in rock history. Killer haircuts (well, at least the dude on the right). What more could you really ask for from an indie band these days?
How about a good song?
Well, Oh No Ono certainly has one [...]

Here in Cleveland, the sometimes vaguely accurate weather gods we call meteorologists are calling for a foot or so of snow to dump on us over the next day. Hardly of epic proportions, but a pain in the ass nonetheless. In the very least, cause enough to void the social calendar (and work, if one [...]

Ever find yourself wondering what those loud as hell, feedback-driven, distortion crazy rockers really sound like? I sure do. I mean, I dig a wall of Marshalls as much or more than anyone else, but that doesn’t mean that I don’t wonder what it’d be like to hear J Mascis do an unplugged set. Thing [...]

Today’s Singles Club offering has got to win the 2009 award for best song title of the year. Although I went with the singular “Ovipositor” in the headline, the full name for this track is actually “I’ll Ram My Ovipositor Down Your Throat and Lay My Eggs In Your Chest, But I’m Not An Alien!” [...]

Merry Christmas, friends. We here at Citizen Dick really and truly appreciate your continued support and loyal readership, and after all, what’s more supportive and loyal than tuning in on Christmas day to see what the final track for our 12 Days of Holiday Dick series is going to be.
Well, this one is a treat. [...]

It is altogether fitting and proper that this particular San Francisco band decided to release as its first single off its first record this song. Longtime Mission District veterans, Matos and bandmates Ben Reisdorph, Joe Miller, and Joe Lewis have been in the indie rock game in the Bay area long enough to be able [...]

Although this series has been a lot of fun to write as it is, my sincere hope for it is that, after a dozen days of downloads and gimmickly visuals, you’ll have found a handful of tracks (or at least one, damn it) by artists you’d not previously gotten a chance to wade into. I [...]

It is snowing outside as I write this. Snowing. Can you believe it? Well, I guess you can believe it. After all, it is December, and I do live in the rust belt. So, yeah, snowing makes sense. It does not, however, make me happy.
Very little about winter makes me happy, to be honest, so [...]

Things that I love (an incomplete list):
(a) The absurd
(b) Lebron James
(c) anthropomorphization
(d) reindeer
(e) mediocre rap music
(f) puppets
(g) mediocre rap music sung by anthropomorphized reindeer puppets
Looks like somebody is getting a new pair of kicks.  Nike, you devilish siren, you’ve finally developed an ad campaign that features all of my favorite things.  I don’t give a [...]

For some reason, the name of this band always makes me think of South Africa. Is that weird? Strange or not, the Danish rockers in Slaraffenland play this version of the century-old Christmas classic carol (itself a version of an old Czech folk tune) pretty straight, except for the barely discernible laser-like effects and the [...]

There might not be a band that received as much love from Citizen Dick in 2009 as Megafaun. I think every single one of us writers was gape-jawed dumbstruck by how awesome their Gather, Form and Fly record was. We all have different ways of tossing superlatives, but I think I like Brian’s best of [...]

There are guys out there with all the vision in the world. Sometimes they got the talent, too, but even then they need to pull a group of folks together to surround them for their vision to fly straight and true. That’s a taller order than you might think, getting a creative type with talent [...]

We don’t get very punk on this site very often, but sometimes the occasion calls for it, and what’s more punk than Christmas?
OK – maybe that isn’t the best way to start this post.
How about this?
You know what I think “Oh Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen” needs? Some speed and some raw fucking rock, that’s what. [...]

Another day, another singles club posting where the lead singer clearly grew up on Caleb Followill’s vocals. This time we have Québécois rockers We Are Wolves, who are about to drop their third full-length album, Invisible Violence, on American ears in early 2010. In all fairness, the band has been in operation almost as long [...]

After a couple days in a row of melancholy Holiday Dick offerings, we need to get upbeat in a hurry. And what makes for a more upbeat wintry day than one that has just been called off by a school superintendent for excessive snowfall? (This, of course, does not take into consideration the POV of [...]

When you first hear that Globes on Remote are from L.A., you are almost certainly gonna say aloud, “Of course they are from L.A. – they couldn’t be from anywhere else!” The quirky space kitsch pop band, from the glammy twee to the characterological narratives, oozes a City of Angels aura that can’t be missed. [...]