Further Seems Forever - The Moon Is Down (Review)

Album artwork for Further Seems Forever's The Moon Is Down.

I know most of us have heard Dashboard Confessional by now. Chris Carrabba's lyrics and sincere compositions have gotten us all through tough times and made the world seem a little bit more bearable.

Before …

Jack's Mannequin - The Glass Passenger (Review)

Album art for The Glass Passenger

Those of you who have read some of the previous articles here at Silent Sound Waves know that if I were to choose just one new album to listen to this entire year before I had heard it, Jack's Mannequin's The Glass Passenger would be …

What the heck is Silent Sound Waves?

No doubt those of you reading this are wondering what Silent Sound Waves is, and with this first post I'll do my best to give you a reasonable answer. In short it is just what that fancy image above says, a music blog.

The longer and more complicated answer to the …

Coldplay - Viva La Vida or Death and All of His Friends

Album art for Viva La Vida or Death and All of His Friends

After spending some time thinking what topic the first real post of this blog would be, I decided that there could be no better way than to review the recently released album of one of the bands who can be held …

Bukta 2008: 5th Annual Troms

Yours truly is ready for the festival and has the wristband to prove it

This afternoon marks the opening of the rock music festival known as

Bukta - Troms

It was a decent crowd for Patti Smith who headlined the first day!

As I mentioned that I would in the previous post, I spent my weekend on rock and beer and other, similar elements essential to a good time at the Bukta Festival in my hometown Troms

Matt Pryor - Confidence Man

Album cover for Confidence Man

When I was tipped to check out Matt Pryor's first solo record which is being released these days, and initially liked it, I started investigating this guy as I had never actually heard of him before. The result was a complete information …

Jack's Mannequin to release "pre-release" EP!

Jack's Mannequin will be releasing a pre-release EP titled Ghost Over Ground on August 5th.

Out of all the albums coming out this year my most anticipated reward goes without a single shred of a doubt to Jack's Mannequin's upcoming The Glass Passenger, which is set to …

Travis announce new album titled Ode to J. Smith

Album cover for Travis' recently released EP titled J. Smith

UK based pop-band Travis

Jack's Mannequin releases Ghost Over Ground EP

Jack's Mannequin's Ghost Over Ground EP is now available at iTunes.

Jack's Mannequin's "while we wait" EP (which is what it should have been called) titled Ghost Over Ground was released on iTunes yesterday. It includes the first single from the upcoming album The Glass …

Well that took some time, but at least we're back!

A little over two months since the last post here at Silent Sound Waves, and I'll admit there haven't really been much going on behind the scenes either. I've just been busy doing other things, and as I have mentioned earlier, I didn't want to officially open up this …

Stickboy - A simple boy made of sticks

Stickboy is our first featured fresh wave

I could not think of a single better way to start the "Fresh Waves" column than sharing one of my favourite musical discoveries of the year. Although some might say that with close to fifty-five thousand friends at MySpace, …

Helpless

Or just hopeless, hell if I know.