<Understanding the ever strange and mysterious Fol Chen, their even stranger letters to Donna Donna, or their “message from the Subcommittee on...
July 7th, 2010 (2:03 pm)
<At its best HEALTH’s second remix album is a peek into the compositional soundness of one of 2009’s best albums, Get Color. That album, with its sheen of post-industrial guitars and atonal...
July 6th, 2010 (11:01 am)
<It’d be nice if I could go ahead and review the new Wavves album without boring you with a mention of mastermind (choice of words...?) Nathan Williams’ infamous meltdown at the Primavera Sound...
July 6th, 2010 (10:25 am)
<I’ve heard artists say they make art for themselves before; it’s a fairly common phrase, and it can apply to any kind of art. Mostly it seems to best apply to those working within the fine...
July 2nd, 2010 (12:43 pm)
<Before the letter “a” was tagged onto the end of “electronic,” before the legions of Brooklynites came in talking about the sweet synth on some previously folky band’s new release, before it...
July 2nd, 2010 (11:11 am)
<Tift Merritt has been around awhile, and has earned her share of accolades, but her newest album aims pretty low. The first song, “Mixtape” gives us a good idea of what’s coming. Most...
July 1st, 2010 (3:31 pm)
Detroit Social Club are not from Detroit. Though their name makes them sound like part of the Motor City Garage Rock Class of ’01 (see: White Stripes, The) they are in fact from Newcastle-upon-...
July 1st, 2010 (12:14 pm)
<Geese wants to score your life—even your planet. They aim to be the soundtrack to the nebulous nature of life; constantly shifting and changing in intangible ways. Their music is post-rock,...
June 30th, 2010 (1:57 pm)
<Given the beguiling but consistently jaw-dropping roster the Anticon record label has assembled over the past couple of years, it is tempting to try to figure out where Will Wiesenfeld’s...
June 30th, 2010 (12:59 pm)
<Bruce Springsteen is, without question, the hip old-school rocker of the moment. Everybody loves the guy, and with that love comes the unfortunate side effect of hundreds of ham-fisted and...