Category: RECORD REVIEWS

PRISONSHAKE: Dirty Moons [Scat]

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

August 26, 2008 / RECORD REVIEWS

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

August 26, 2008 / RECORD REVIEWS

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

August 25, 2008 / RECORD REVIEWS

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

August 19, 2008 / RECORD REVIEWS

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

August 19, 2008 / RECORD REVIEWS

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

August 19, 2008 / RECORD REVIEWS

R.I.P. MAGNET Senior Writer Jonathan Valania

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

August 19, 2008 / RECORD REVIEWS