Mike Shiflets self-released 2010 album Llanos felt like a pinnacle. After more than a decade of noise and drone made in small editions for various labels, the Ohio-based artist combined his obsession...
Laura Burhenn proved she could craft a pop record with the Mynabirds 2010 debut, What We Lose in the Fire, We Gain in the Flood, a masterwork of Laurel Canyon-style blue-eyed pop soul. Her deeply pol...
Were supposed to learn from reissues, right? We become more educated listeners, better listeners, perhaps more adventurous listeners? Were trying to understand how these gems stayed hidden, so that w...
To press play on any of Marissa Nadlers six albums is to enter a peaceful but painful dream. Since 2004, whether over the barebones creak of the early The Saga of Mayflower May or the synthetically t...
The new video game Max Payne 3 is a third-person shooter that mixes cover-based and run-and-gun mechanics. Translated from the jargon, this means you peek over Maxs shoulder as he hides behind statio...
In the rocky chasm between lust and love, its often the non-events, the not-quite-happenings, that gain emotional weight. These are the concerns of A Monument, the second LP by Portlands Tu Fawning. ...
Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros recent collaboration with the Flaming Lips-- an understated folk hymn with not-so-understated title of "Helping the Retarded to Know God"-- concludes with...
"Someday youll wake up and youll feel a great pain/ And youll miss every toy you ever owned." Detractors of Regina Spektors particular brand of clown-nose gutpunch pop will be delighted to kn...
Its almost as if history is repeating itself: a royal jubilee, a limply received Sex Pistols reunion, and now John Lydon has gone and reunited his post-Pistols band Public Image Ltd. PiL (as theyre n...
Lets start with an understatement: things tend to move quite slowly in the world of Sigur Rós. This is true whether were talking about the glacial pace of their songs, the glacial pace at which they ...
Plankton Wat, the project of Eternal Tapestry guitarist Dewey Mahood, is the sound of sanctuary. Mahood is joined on Spirits by two other humans: Edibles Dusty Dybvig, who sneaks a bit of hand drum o...
Even if you dont recognize the name Kyle Thomas, you may know some of his associations. Seth Bogart, better known as Hunx, cites him as his best friend. He was the frontman of stoner-metal outfit Wit...
When the word got out that the Scissor Sisters fourth album would feature collaborations with producers like Calvin Harris, Diplo, the Neptunes and Boys Noize, it seemed safe to assume that we were i...
Lemonades self-titled 2008 album was one big, exhilarating highlight reel condensing the preceding decade of dance/rock crossovers, blurring the divisions separating DFA-style post-punk disco and EDM...
Unlike many of 2009s breakout indie bands, Vancouvers Japandroids werent hanging onto their youth out of nostalgia. For this duo, it literally sounded like a matter of life and death. While the chaot...
Classical Curves is the first full-length album by Jack Latham, a young English electronic producer who goes by the name Jam City. Some claimed influences for the album are marble, trenchcoats, and &...
Given that the rallying cry for progressive bass music in 2012 amounts to "Not another shitty house album," its difficult to remember that as recently as 2010 there was a third avenue availab...
This singer (pronounced "tall waist") not only shares a hometown (Toronto) and producer (Illangelo) with the Weeknds Abel Tesfaye, but the same subject matter, vibe, and eerily similar vocal ...
Andy Falkous is something of a personal hero, and if he ever decides to give up on music, I just hope an institution of higher learning allows him an emeritus professorship based on the philosophical...
"I was the Duke of Earl, but it couldnt last/ I was the pony express, but I ran out of gas." This is the first thing Hamilton Leithauser sighs on the Walkmens new album, Heaven. It is a disti...
Having blown way more money at 4o Watt, Nowhere Bar, and Schoolkids Records than I care to mention, I can say from personal experience that everything youve heard about Athens, Ga., being a wonderlan...
Owen Ashworth is familiar with nostalgia. His work as Casiotone for the Painfully Alone, an often lo-fi, not-always-Casiotone-based indie pop project that officially came to an end in 2010, encompass...
Much of the press Brooklyn duo Exitmusic garnered for its 2011 EP, From Silence, depended as much on the pairs backstory as their tension-dependent sound. The tale of Aleksa Palladino and Devon Churc...
When I interviewed the Brooklyn black metal group Mutilation Rites, vocalist/guitarist George Paul said he was "a guitar player first," and that he doesnt think of himself as a lyricist: "...
Flipping through the booklet to Paul McCartneys Ram reissue, youll find no scholarly liner-notes essay. This is odd. Usually the reissue-packaging gods demand the positioning of an eager critic betwe...
The 32-year-old violinist Hilary Hahn has been at the lonely pinnacle of the classical A-list since she was all of 16 years old. Its not exactly a sphere that rewards, or even encourages, curiosity: ...
Its tempting to call 1980s New Jersey band the Trypes a Feelies side project. All five current Feelies were involved at some point, and the only record the Trypes ever released-- 1984s 4-song The Exp...
Theres a Philadelphia band called Birds of Maya, who released two must-listen albums of extremely lo-fi rocknroll with plentiful shredding: 2008s Vol. 1 and 2010s Ready to Howl offered up guitar riff...
There are a handful of jarring moments on Rye Ryes long-delayed debut that remind us of the music industrys comically strange state of artist development limbo. The passage of time is sometimes palpa...
The way pop interacts with our lives is as ripe for interrogation as ever. Late last year, Drake wrote a blog post criticizing Tumblr, at a time when acts from Dirty Beaches to Grimes could be seen a...
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