<Paul’s Tomb is a lot of things. It is guitars, loud guitars, Neil Young single note solo guitars, MacKaye-Picotto ping-pong-ing banter guitars. Guitars that screech, smear bridges into...
May 17th, 2010 (3:00 pm)
<It’s amazing to me that dance music that isn’t particularly original in composition or execution somehow resonates more in today’s pop music world than current innovation seems to be able. We...
May 11th, 2010 (4:45 pm)
<The National’s newest album finds them at that coveted point in their career where they have the liberty to do basically anything they want, at least musically. On High Violet that...
April 28th, 2010 (12:41 pm)
<If one wanted to get to the very bottom of Inter Arbiter, they might say that Inlets write folk songs. However, that's only true in a very loose sense. Many songs on the album only...
April 28th, 2010 (11:45 am)
<...And so it continues... chillwave. That’s right, we’re not quite out of the woods yet. Hailing from Brooklyn, indie-electronic duo Javelin’s debut album (following last year’s off-the-buzz-o...
April 27th, 2010 (4:00 pm)
<Steal Your Face should come with a Surgeon General’s Warning sticker placed clearly on the front cover. The sticker should read something like: “WARNING: If you are experiencing any flu...
April 27th, 2010 (3:23 pm)
<Ahmed Janka Nabay is the self-proclaimed Bubu King, and it may not be far from the truth. Bubu is a traditional African-Muslim sound, created by blowing into bamboo pipes. Until now, it was...
April 26th, 2010 (2:30 pm)
<By now, Sharon Jones and the Dap-Kings latest album, I Learned the Hard Way has already earned heaps of critical praise. I have no real complaints with these reviews—there is very...
April 26th, 2010 (12:43 pm)
<To Blank Dogs’ credit, I racked my brain for comparisons to this one-man-band, if only for my own indulgence, and came up with nothing. Maybe there’s someone I overlooked or am unaware of, but...
April 23rd, 2010 (9:44 am)
<Massa Hypnos is such a boring mess of an album that reviewing it presents certain challenges. How many times can I tell you that a song just bored me? Opener “Transparent” starts off...