Category: RECORD REVIEWS

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

“So much that I can’t say to you,” Mark Kozelek croons on “Drop,” a raw, ethereal epic toward the end

Post-hardcore throwback Metz unloads sophomore thump Metz spent five years solidifying a reputation as a must-see live band before it

With Foil Deer, Speedy Ortiz fully owns its style, quirks and neuroses on a level that would have been unimaginable

Recent chatter around the water cooler concerns the strides Tom Jenkinson has taken toward injecting harsher, more aggressive elements into

For a band that titles its album No Control, Turbo Fruits really seem to have their shit together. We’re loath

The Replacements’ studio output illustrates that the Minnesota legends were at their best together If your dictionary had really good

Veteran U.K. folkie Bill Fay practices what he preaches Bill Fay’s second album since his comeback enlarges on themes, lyrical