Feb 21st 7 Comments
First things first: The real best album to come out today is Sleigh Bells' Reign Of Terror, a sophomore album that does everything sophomore albums are supposed to do. It deepens and widens the… Read Story »
Feb 14th 8 Comments
Shearwater's last three albums, the ones that brought the Austin band to prominence, all made up parts of a loose overarching concept-album trilogy, one that had something to do with islands and… Read Story »
Feb 7th 6 Comments
A year and a half ago, I had a perfectly lovely telephone conversation with Isobel Campbell, the former Belle & Sebastian member who has recorded three ultra-satisfying albums of Nancy Sinatra… Read Story »
Jan 31st 4 Comments
The story goes like this: Just a couple of years ago, Leonard Cohen was a septuagenarian retiree, more or less done with music, living in a Buddhist monastery in California. He stopped touring in… Read Story »
Jan 24th 24 Comments
The first two volumes of Clevelander Dylan Baldi’s work as Cloud Nothings showcase a musician with a precocious knack for hooks, ping-ponged hooks laid onto a backdrop of Baldi’s sunny jangle… Read Story »
Jan 17th 6 Comments
The young L.A. rapper Kendrick Lamar is well on his way to becoming something truly special. Section.80, Kendrick's very strong 2011 album, was the work of a ferociously talented rapper and a… Read Story »
Jan 10th 3 Comments
First things first: The music business is still on an extended holiday break from releasing almost any actual music. Next week is the first week in what feels like forever that more than one… Read Story »
Jan 3rd 9 Comments
An important thing to remember about the Guided By Voices reunion: They were the weird old guys in the club the first time around, too. Back in the day, the music press had an easy time lumping them… Read Story »
Dec 6th, 2011 15 Comments
Album releases slow way down this time of year, and this week's Album Of The Week was mostly a two-horse race between the Black Keys' El Camino and the Roots' undun. That ends up being a pretty… Read Story »
Nov 29th, 2011 7 Comments
Here are the facts as we know them: Blut Aus Nord is the one-man black metal project of a Frenchman who calls himself Vindsval. Vindsval debuted his whole thing in 1994, but he has allowed the public… Read Story »
