Category: RECORD REVIEWS

Even if he wanted to, Howe Gelb couldn’t repeat himself. Just watch him sing sometime; the guy’s got two vocal

On paper, at least, this Louisville, Ky., power-pop trio would appear to be an utterly faultless proposition, an aging hipster

In a better, more just universe, Prisonshake would be currently shimmying in the Hold Steady’s shoes. Judging from the sprawling,

A failing marriage doesn’t guarantee great art, but it certainly helps. For Matthew Sweet, it was the well-publicized secret behind

On The ’59 Sound, schoolboys and young girls named Matilda, Sally and Bobby Jean die on a Saturday night, but

This legendarily eccentric dub-reggae producer has been steadily releasing albums since the early ’80s after he torched his Black Ark

As if her name wasn’t an obvious clue, Lykke Li is Scandanavian through and through. Her debut could be mistaken

Things have never been better for Jennifer O’Connor—career-wise, at least—but you wouldn’t know it by listening to her ruminative fourth

As an attempt to move beyond the post-punk noisiness of 2006’s A Hundred Miles Off, the fourth proper Walkmen album

Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned, especially if she happens to be a songwriter with the means to

Those wondering where Daft Punk’s creative juices went during the period between 2001’s Discovery and 2005’s Human After All might

When did setting poetry to music become cool again, you ask? Well, it didn’t, of course. Ask around on the

The Notwist’s last album, 2003’s Neon Golden, was irresistibly catchy and irretrievably downbeat. Both of those qualities are muted on

If My Brightest Diamond’s 2006 debut Bring Me The Workhorse was singer/songwriter Shara Worden’s dramatic move away from the clutches