Lots of talk about Bishop Allen, Cursive, The Number Twelve Looks Like You and the new Punk Goes Pop collection. Hate to say it, but I’m not really looking forward to any of them much. A few that might get overlooked: Mirah’s new release is awesome. Portland’s repping pretty strong...

It's hard to believe that Bishop Allen are fast approaching the release date (March 10th) for their third studio album titled Grrr... It seems like just yesterday that my freshman year suite-mate popped his head in the room and asked if I wanted to swap some tunes. Although it was more "give" than "...

It's been almost three months since I began writing this post, which was to commemorate the third blogiversary here @ The Big Ticket (previous years' posts: 2005 & 2006), but the ensuing craziness that has come with moving into a new apartment this month (COUGARS!) & the delay in getting proper inte...