{"id":6438,"date":"2013-03-06T09:00:08","date_gmt":"2013-03-06T17:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/?p=6438"},"modified":"2013-03-05T13:11:02","modified_gmt":"2013-03-05T21:11:02","slug":"new-music-revue-march-6-2013-issue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/2013\/03\/06\/new-music-revue-march-6-2013-issue\/","title":{"rendered":"New Music Revue<\/em>: Hollerado, KEN mode"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Hollerado<\/p>\n

White Paint<\/i><\/p>\n

(Royal Mountain Records)<\/p>\n

3.5\/5<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Sharing the stage with both Weezer and Jack White, Ottawa-based indie-rock band Hollerado have been sweeping the globe since debuting Record in a Bag<\/i> back in 2010.<\/p>\n

Building steam over the past two years, their hit single, \u201cPick Me Up\u201d from latest album White Paint<\/i> does not disappoint.<\/p>\n

Unfortunately, the rest of the album does.<\/p>\n

If you\u2019re into indie rock\/pop tunes, the aforementioned \u201cPick Me Up\u201d (and \u201cJuliette\u201d from the band\u2019s debut) are awesome tunes, but I haven\u2019t yet been able to get into any of the other songs on this new disc.<\/p>\n

Bands like Hollerado are growing in popularity as indie rock evolves into a more mainstream\/pop sound. A few more hit singles and I\u2019m sure Hollerado will be on par with Arctic Monkeys and The Black Keys.<\/p>\n

-Shaylah Annand<\/p>\n

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\"\"<\/a>KEN mode<\/p>\n

Entrench<\/i><\/p>\n

(New Damage Records)<\/p>\n

4.5\/5<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Ready for a cheery, peppy listen? Then run away, fast, in the complete opposite direction. Yes, there is a song on this album called \u201cYour Heartwarming Story Makes Me Sick,\u201d and, yes, Winnipeg\u2019s KEN mode are back for their fifth full-length album, and their first since 2011\u2019s Juno-winning Venerable<\/i> (it\u2019s still weird referring to such a nasty band as Juno winners).<\/p>\n

Entrench<\/i> could have been the trio\u2019s post-Juno foray into more polished, even mildly cheerier heavy rock and roll, but that would have been super lame.<\/p>\n

Instead, KEN (stands for Kill Everyone Now) mode take their Unsane-meets-Dillinger-Escape-Plan noise-rock madness and plummets it into a self-loathing vortex of pain, misery, and suffering.<\/p>\n

Fans of this type of extreme music will love Entrench<\/i>. The rest of the Juno crowd should probably pretend none of this, especially the utter bombast of \u201cSecret Vasectomy,\u201d ever happened.<\/p>\n

-Jason Schreurs<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Hollerado White Paint (Royal Mountain Records) 3.5\/5   Sharing the stage with both Weezer and Jack White, Ottawa-based indie-rock band Hollerado have been sweeping the globe since debuting Record in a Bag back in 2010. Building steam over the past two years, their hit single, \u201cPick Me Up\u201d from latest album White Paint does not […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6441,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,97],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6438","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-arts","category-march-6-2013"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t