Category: RECORD REVIEWS

Spring is like a chronical of a solitary road trip. It was written in New Mexico, recorded in California and

Utter certain words in a sequence, and the world deems you either a prophet or a madman. Since 2015, the

Scrape down through the layers of rock history and what do you find? More layers—it never ends. This LP represents

Space comes in a box, and all you need to do to get some is stomp on it. Writhing Squares,

Lena Hessels is not the first 17-year-old to lock her self up over the summer and make a record. But

Concept-record fans, take note. Mars is a space/rock opera concerning an alternate history in which humans have already settled elsewhere

Music and journalism have this in common: They’re both means to communicate what’s going on. That means that both can

It may take a village to raise a child and two record labels (Feeding Tube and Astral Spirits) to put

When Donavan Quinn and Glenn Donaldson started the Skygreen Leopards in 2001, they agreed upon some ground rules. They would

The shift that Titus Andronicus makes with A Productive Cough shouldn’t catch us off guard—long have Patrick Stickles and Co.

Franz Ferdinand is playing at James Murphy’s house. One of the best Franz Ferdinand performances is on an LCD Soundsystem

Franz Ferdinand seems to have a thing for laziness. In addition to the Glasgow band’s generally louche persona, there’s a

Anyone who’s been cussed out by “Ben Franklin’s Song” knows Colin Meloy still has some poison left in his quill.

Weezer, the 10th album by Weezer, is about as good (or bad, your call) as Weezer, several measures worse than

Bobby Gillespie of Primal Scream and Jesus And Mary Chain fame is often noted with the phrase, “A band is only

Sixty years ago today, explosively melodic jazz pianist Erroll Garner lit a fire in a Carmel By The Sea, Calif.,

I have no doubt that John Dwyer and the occasionally rotating crew of musicians he calls Thee Oh Sees are

According to William Blake, “The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom … you never know what is