Titus Andronicus Tour Diary - Chapel Hill, NC - 4/18/2010
"Did you know that if the heads on Mount Rushmore had bodies which were built to scale, they could step over the statue of liberty as easily as a human could step over a dog? Shit, that is so awesome..." read more
Found in: Blogs, Dear DiaryWatch Titus Andronicus and a Vivian Girl Cover Weezer's "Sweater Song"
In his very first tour diary entry for Paste a couple weeks back, Titus Andronicus frontman/eloquent writer Patrick Stickles discussed many topics over the course of an endlessly-entertaining 2,200 words (!!!), not least of which were some young people in St. Louis getting hassled by the police.... read more
Found in: Music, NewsTitus Andronicus Tour Diary - Sacramento, CA - 3/24/10
In his first tour-diary entry for Paste, Titus frontman Patrick Stickles has fun in Ohio, gets angry at a St. Louis policeman and trashes Tim Burton's Alice in Wonderland a lot... read more
Found in: Blogs, Dear DiaryTitus Andronicus: The Monitor
We have met the enemy, and he is us If Bruce Springsteen sowed the seeds of small-town introspection, his fellow New Jerseyites Titus Andronicus are flooding the fields. The punk quintet deconstructed postindustrial life with its gut-wrenching debut, The Airing of Grievances. And the band’s sophomore LP, The Monitor, crushes the rosy spectacles of heartland rock, peeling away the façade of barroom camaraderie to reveal an entire generation inured to those highs. The comedown is a deeply pessimistic exploration of Americana and its now-quixotic quest for authenticity, loosely tethered to a fictional Civil War-era travel narrative spanning the trackless forests... read more
Found in: Music, ReviewsTen March 2010 Albums Worth Checking Out
March is a mysterious month with plenty of secrets... read more
Found in: Blogs, List of the DayTitus Andronicus to "Monitour" North America this Spring
On March 9, Jersey natives and punk new-gods Titus Andronicus will release their much-anticipated and unabashedly ambitious sophomore LP The Monitor. And as frontman Patrick Stickles explains on the band’s blog, they’ve decided to dub the accompanying tour “The Monitour Phase Two: Sea to Shining Sea.”... read more
Found in: Music, NewsTitus Andronicus' Civil War Album, 7" Single Get Release Dates
What do Feb. 9 and March 9 have in common? Well, they’re both dates tied to the Civil War, for starters, and it’s no coincidence that Titus Andronicus has scheduled its new record release (in the forms of a vinyl single and the album proper) to those dates respectively. The New Jersey-based band’s new album, The Monitor, uses the war as an extended metaphor throughout. (Therefore it makes sense that the 7" vinyl single for the song “Four Score and Seven,” comes out on Abraham Lincoln’s 201st birthday Feb. 9, followed a month later by the CD and 2LP release... read more
Found in: Music, NewsTitus Andronicus tours, gets iPhone app
Imagine pre-London Calling Clash, Paul Westerberg's snotty, drunken vocals, a pinch of The Jam and subtle hints of Weezer and My Bloody Valentine. What do you get? One cool band, that's what! Specifically, Titus Andronicus. And, what's more, you're in luck: The five guys from Jersey are currently on tour to support the re-release/remastered edition of their 2008 debut, The Airing of Grievances. (We can only hope the next one is called The Feats of Strength.)... read more
Found in: Music, NewsTitus Andronicus: The Airing of Grievances
Listening to Titus Andronicus’ debut record... read more
Found in: Music, ReviewsFour 2008 Albums that Sound Even Better in 2009
In addition to getting psyched for the new year, now is the inevitable time where I look back on the preceding year and either a) remember how much I loved certain albums or b) catch up on albums everyone else was talking about that I didn't find as much time as I would have liked to listen to. That sentence was kind of terrible, but the albums below definitely are not. A couple fall into the a) category, and a couple in the b). But I'll let the song from each do the talking. Enjoy! ... read more
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