Category: RECORD REVIEWS

One of Sharon Van Etten’s talents has always been her ability to make something seem bigger than it actually is.

This Brooklyn band refers to itself as “a country band travelling through space” or, when feeling particularly pretentious, “Johnny Cash

Returning after a seven-year hiatus from music, Philadelphia-based singer/songwriter Cynthia G. Mason has lost nary a step. Her new five-song

It would seem that Austin transplants Heartless Bastards have evolved into a band of unique focus—a smart, purposeful ensemble boasting

She had one of the most haunting, most arresting voices in all of American musical history, as immediately recognizable as

This is Graham Parker’s second album with the reunited backup band that gave his early albums so much fire and

The Helio Sequence has worked on a fairly panoramic screen over the past decade and a half, projecting its evocative

On its first album in 10 years, D.C. band Beauty Pill takes a sledgehammer to boundaries and orthodoxies. Prior releases

Rock ‘n’ roll doesn’t get any better than this. Period. These three albums—1990’s We Are They Who Ache With Amorous

Even when a mere year separated the release of Low Cut Connie’s second album from its first, the energetic combo

Kristian Matsson is a musician who can hold a theater of thousands in rapt attention with just an acoustic guitar

Since 1994, the Danish indie rockers in Mew have found interesting and engaging ways to bend progressive rock into exotic

In an about-face to the insular world of American noise music, which he’d been the preeminent voice of for nearly

A curiously self-titled Wire album betrays a lack of new ideas When a band names its debut after itself, the