No album has really grabbed me in a long time since I first heard Stars' new album, No One Is Lost. I first heard about Stars about three years ago, when I first listened to their probably most well-known album, Set Yourself on Fire. Wonderful record. I can see why it is their most popular. I was hooked on that for a while, but eventually lost interest. I was into all sorts of stuff then; particularly my love for Dream Theater was on the rise, and I didn't have time for much else. The 2010-11 school year…

For a little over a year now, I have been obsessed with Dream Theater. I have always liked them… well, actually that's not true. The first time I heard them, I thought they were over-technical, show-off-ish, and I didn't really dig the metal sound they had. I am a huge fan of Rush, so this may come as a surprise that I didn't initially like DT. They were (and still are) influenced by Rush in many ways. Believe it or not, though, I have seen many a case where Rush fans have bashed DT. This is undeserving, and…

Today was my last day of work for my summer job. They let me go a couple hours early. My superiors really are nice people, and they all said they'd miss me, as I start my first year in university this September. It's nice to feel a part of something like that and have a good social component to accompany my work. We are a pretty close-knit organisation, though. Anyway, today was a really beautiful day, although it was real hot! Despite the heat, the sky was clear and blue. I came home to my family, and soon realised that…

Ah yes, so I have been into shoegaze ever since June 2010 when I heard a Cocteau Twins track, "Summerhead", on a prog radio show that I listened to every Thursday before its end just recently in August 2011, called The Interdimensional Vortex. I started getting into Cocteau Twins, and then I heard "Catch the Breeze" by Slowdive on the show a couple weeks later. The rest is history. I have really been a fan of 90s shoegazers like Slowdive, Cocteau Twins, Chapterhouse, Ride, My Bloody Valentine, Cranes and the like. I…