Category: RECORD REVIEWS
Record Review: Built To Spill’s “Untethered Moon”
Guitar gymnastics and indie anti-heroism coexist on Built To Spill’s first record in more than six years Guitars. Epic-length expository
Record Review: Modest Mouse’s “Strangers To Ourselves”
Modest Mouse resurfaces with a flawed twilight opus nonetheless pitch-perfect for our bummed-out times "I guess I’ll ride this winter
Record Review: Anders Parker “There’s A Bluebird In My Heart”
Anders Parker flexes all of his considerable creative muscles with his latest—and perhaps best—solo album. Looking back over the breadth
The Flaming Lips Almost Killed Me: Reign Of Terror
Will repeated listening to the Flaming Lips' dark, depressing and intense new album drive you insane? MAGNET's Matthew Fritch aims
Record Review: Nirvana “In Utero (20th Anniversary Edition)”
Twenty years later, In Utero reigns as Nirvana’s poetic, grimy apex It’s always the question with Nirvana, the most important
The Flaming Lips Almost Killed Me: Is It Gettin’ Heady?
Will repeated listening to the Flaming Lips' dark, depressing and intense new album drive you insane? MAGNET's Matthew Fritch aims
The Flaming Lips Almost Killed Me: Jesus Shootin’ Heroin, Etc.
Will repeated listening to the Flaming Lips' dark, depressing and intense new album drive you insane? MAGNET's Matthew Fritch aims
The Flaming Lips Almost Killed Me: At War With The Critics
Will repeated listening to the Flaming Lips' dark, depressing and intense new album drive you insane? MAGNET's Matthew Fritch aims
The Flaming Lips Almost Killed Me: Gawd Only Knows
Will repeated listening to the Flaming Lips' dark, depressing and intense new album drive you insane? MAGNET's Matthew Fritch aims
Record Review: Tom Petty And The Heartbreakers “Mojo”
Tom Petty has said of Wildflowers, the 1994 solo album he cut with Rick Rubin that is arguably the high
DVD Review: Various Artists “The T.A.M.I. Show”
If you wanted to get straight to the heart of an exploding 1964 pop-music scene, you couldn't do any better
Record Review: Big Star “Keep An Eye On The Sky”
As a career retrospective and unreleased/rarities compilation, you couldn’t do much better than Keep An Eye On The Sky, Rhino
Record Review: Monahans “Dim The Aurora”
"It's Enough To Leave You" is the opening track on Dim The Aurora, and it packs about a quarter-century of
THE JESUS AND MARY CHAIN: The Power Of Negative Thinking: B-Sides & Rarities [Rhino]
Although it might be difficult to comprehend now, the Jesus And Mary Chain was a total revelation when it appeared