Category: RECORD REVIEWS

JOAN AS POLICE WOMAN: To Survive [Cheap Lullaby]

As violinist for Rufus Wainwright, Lou Reed, Antony And The Johnsons and others, Joan Wasser possesses impeccable artistic credentials. As

June 10, 2008 / RECORD REVIEWS

Ladytron’s default mode is steadfast retroism. When the Liverpool band isn’t playing synth pop, it’s shoegazing. On fourth album Velocifero,

June 3, 2008 / RECORD REVIEWS

Musical liberation has always been Free Kitten’s mantra. Fitting, since its core members hail from some of the past 30

May 20, 2008 / RECORD REVIEWS

Is there trouble brewing in pop paradise? It sounds like someone’s been cheating on Mates Of State’s watershed fifth album.

May 20, 2008 / RECORD REVIEWS

If the Black Angels’ 2006 debut was about the unraveling of the American dream—10 songs of alienation and anomie employing

May 13, 2008 / RECORD REVIEWS

R.I.P. MAGNET Senior Writer Jonathan Valania

ROYAL BANGS: We Breed Champions [Audio Eagle] Listen to the weary vocals and languid, Strokes-like guitars on “Broke Calculator,” and

May 13, 2008 / RECORD REVIEWS

Releasing a covers album when you’ve only got three LPs to your own credit can be a dicey notion. Yet

May 13, 2008 / RECORD REVIEWS