Category: RECORD REVIEWS

With its aptly titled fourth album, Dungen has put the stoner-rock community on notice. No longer will the Sabbath-worshipping decibel

God, this is depressing. And no, we’re not talking depressing as in mood or tone, but that a band such

The Yardbirds in the mid-’60s. The Jam in the late ‘70s. The Hoodoo Gurus in the early ’80s. Guided By

Chances are, you’ve heard something similar to Tracy Shedd before. Surrounded by guitar tones that vary from stark to stratospheric

Recording in a New Mexican mesa using only solar power, Brightblack Morning Light is happy to retreat from apocalyptic dread

Along with ruining the harmonica for every modern-day rocker, Bob Dylan’s influence on other people’s music often comes across as

Time sure has coarsened All Girl Summer Fun Band. On Looking Into It, the Portland, Ore., group’s first album since

When the members of Dead Confederate got together in 1997, it was as a jam band called Redbelly, playing 30-minute

Every big city has one: the band that should’ve made it, the act that, through whatever combination of bad luck,

A year removed from 2007’s blog-tastically acclaimed The Stage Names, Okkervil River is back with its sequel, a collection of

Matt and Bubba Kadane have never been in much of a hurry to do anything, neither with their beloved ’90s

Anybody expecting this unreleased session by the man who assembled the heavenly vocal blend of the Mamas And The Papas

After Galaxie 500 burned to the ground in 1991 at the hands of frontman Dean Wareham’s blazing ego, drummer Damon

While conventional wisdom holds that Calexico fuses mariachi and rock music, the band has always accomplished more than that. Core