Monster Island = Game; Fang Island = Band

"On an undiscovered island, beyond the reach of man, the creatures of the wild battle each other for total supremacy of Monster Island. Use the monster grenades at your disposal and fight to become the one monster to rule them all!" One monster to rule them allllll....mwah ha ha haaaaaa. Monster Island is a mild action game that can be played either free online at miniclip.com or on your iPhone. It isn't the most exciting game, but it does put a nice Spy-vs-Spy style bomb in your hand and give you free reign to blow up other monsters. While it's mildly addicting eventually, it takes several levels to become engagingly challenging. Were I to pit it against my other favorite bomber game, Atari 2600's Kaboom, I'd still say, cruddy graphics and all, Kaboom would still be victorious.

Fang Island is a band out of Providence, RI, now based in the mecca of all the people cooler than you - Brooklyn. Their music is self-described as sounding like "everyone high fiving everyone," which as far as descriptions go is better than most. Accurate, though? Sometimes. The sound is heavily instrumental, guitar-based rock and roll with a distinct lean toward prog-rock inspired leads. Sometimes the music is disconcertingly dissonant, and then at other times it sounds like exactly the kind of guitar work that you'd expect to build up to a chorus worthy of Boston's greatest hits. Songs where the boys in the band come in and half-chant, half-sing their lyrics, such as in the unabashedly handclap-heavy "Daisy," are the ones that come closest to attaining that high-five-ability that they claim. There is something joyful in these moments that make for, actually, a pretty good game soundtrack if, say, you're playing Monster Island instead of working like I am right now.

Daisy – Fang Island Lyrics & Listen