Two sites I visit daily are Pitchfork and DrownedInSound. They're music review sites, which means they're full of stuff like this:
Major General moves a fair piece between the Hüsker Dü-like urgency of opener "Jeff Penalty" to the loungey, languid closer "I'm Done Singing", hitting mid-1990s alt-rock, tipsy Billy Joel balladry, Sunday afternoon swing, and Eastern European folk-tinged rave-ups along the way. I can't quite tell if "Jeff Penalty" is a highlight or the highlight, but it's certainly a winner, spinning a note-perfect yarn of seeing the Jello Biafra-less Dead Kennedys revue. In Nicolay's tale, the crowd reluctantly accepts "Jeff Whatisname" and refuses to stop believin'. It's as good a song about navigating aging in the scene-- never selling out, after all, just turns you into the old guy in the room-- as any on the Hold Steady's Stay Positive, and if they were to slip it into a setlist ...
