Josh Homme Albums From Worst To Best
Jun 14th 39 Comments
This week, Queens Of The Stone Age scored their first-ever No. 1 album on the Billboard 200 with ...Like Clockwork, the first album Palm Desert native Josh Homme has released with QOTSA in six years.…   Read Story »
Low Albums From Worst To Best
Jun 7th 28 Comments
Odd to think that at one point, much to their chagrin, Low were considered the progenitors of the “slowcore” movement. Emerging from Duluth, MN in the early '90s, contemporaneous with the halcyon…   Read Story »
Spiritualized Albums From Worst To Best
May 30th 18 Comments
A writer friend of mine recently gave me some advice: One of the hardest stories to sell is one about a consistently excellent band releasing another strong album. It's not a comeback, it's not a…   Read Story »
The Faces Albums From Worst To Best
May 24th 19 Comments
We begin our discussion of the Faces, as we must, with "The Rod Conundrum" -- one of the thorniest in all of rock and roll lore. Cue the ESPN 30 For 30 voice over: "What if we told you that Rod…   Read Story »
Sebadoh Albums From Worst To Best
May 17th 14 Comments
Sebadoh were something of the “Beautiful Losers” of the ’90s indie scene. Lou Barlow emerged from Northamption hardcore act Deep Wound, and later Dinosaur Jr., having famously been…   Read Story »
Will Oldham Albums From Worst To Best
May 10th 25 Comments
In the 2005 film Junebug, Will Oldham's character works for a Chicago curator, on the lookout for "outsider artists" in the backwoods of North Carolina for a big city gallery. It's not a bad…   Read Story »
Built To Spill Albums From Worst To Best
May 1st 68 Comments
All Built To Spill songs exist on a continuum between two poles: snappy, twee-inflected pop songs and vast, mind-altering classic rock soundscapes. I've never been to Idaho, but I can't help…   Read Story »
My Morning Jacket Albums From Worst To Best
Apr 26th 71 Comments
In an interview with Rolling Stone in 2008, My Morning Jacket frontman and songwriter Jim James identified four artists he considered to be MMJ's "big-brother bands": Wilco, Björk, Radiohead, and…   Read Story »
Talking Heads Albums From Worst To Best
Apr 19th 50 Comments
When I was in high school, I had a friend, Trey, with a funny ritual. Whenever it was one of our mutual friend's birthdays, he would get everyone together for a surprise party, all of us crouching…   Read Story »
Destroyer Albums From Worst To Best
Apr 12th 41 Comments
Though it is easy to imagine him recoiling in horror from the appellation, Dan Bejar is quintessentially a songwriter's songwriter. All through the back rooms of the world at night, admiring cohorts…   Read Story »