“Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin,” is the almost perfect name for a band, enough to make you love ‘em even before they’ve played a single note: the name’s a little winsome, a little...
August 18th, 2010 (4:16 pm)
<Look at you, clutching your pearl necklace, sipping a French vintage on your leather sectional sofa, propping your feet up on the kneeling hired help like they’re an ottoman. What happened to...
August 17th, 2010 (8:30 pm)
<Black City is feverishly described on Matthew Dear’s website as an “imaginary metropolis peopled by desperate cases, lovelorn souls, and amoral motives.” That’s all well and good, Mr....
August 16th, 2010 (7:40 pm)
<In truth, there are very few facets of Freddie Gibbs’ newest EP that distinguish it from the multitude of other hip-hop albums being released now. However, those few differences, as subtle as...
August 13th, 2010 (3:49 pm)
<When my brother told me he didn’t like M. Ward’s voice, and indeed went so far as to refer to it as “boring,” my reaction was mainly colored by bewilderment and vehement disagreement. I don’t...
August 12th, 2010 (8:13 pm)
<GO!GO!7188 is a Japanese rock band. Free association with Japan: cubic watermelons, Harajuku Girls, Shall We Dansu?, striped kneesocks, hamachi, Sailor Moon. Popular Japanese culture...
August 11th, 2010 (11:44 pm)
<If nothing else, you have to appreciate the intricacies of Shinichi Osawa. His music flashes around like old Nintendo music. Despite a long, eclectic career, Osawa is producing music with as...
August 10th, 2010 (6:27 pm)
<Unless you’ve barricaded yourself with obscure European electronica releases and live by the light of a lava lamp situated next to your daily dose of amphetamines, Autechre’s latest will be...
August 9th, 2010 (8:30 pm)
<Green Gerry’s debut album Odd Tymes is an obvious labor of love; an aural expression of his futile war against the universal entropy that will eventually claim us all. Built upon...
August 6th, 2010 (12:45 pm)
<Well, what can I say about The Arcade Fire that hasn’t already been said? They are the maturation of disaffected youth. They are the past tense of jaded angst. If Funeral was an ode to...