Category: RECORD REVIEWS

After three decades, Mission Of Burma justly remains one of the college-rock era’s most influential groups. The Boston quartet honed

White vinyl, brightly colored sleeve art, ragged vocals, two short, sharp songs: What’s not to love about this seven-inch? An

In Swans, singer Jarboe was always the spooky bit of beauty that accentuated and made human the sheer terror of

In the ‘80s, long before mp3s or MySpace, bands hunkered down with cheap gear, cranked out demos, dubbed them onto

Depicting a nerdy guy, a chubby guy and a normal guy shooting the shit obliviously while a party rages around

There’s something perversely charming about Kelley Polar’s puckish mucking-about with electronica/post-dance conventions. If you can’t dance to it, what the

For a master of the tongue-in-cheek, the bright marquee lights gracing Nick Cave’s 14th studio album seem like a heartfelt

One of the most exciting aspects of Deerhunter’s recent Cryptograms was its schizophrenic approach to sound: bone-rattling noise rock one

Subtitled Garage And Psych Howlers From The Vaults Of Trod Nossel Studios ’66-’68!, this is a suitably solid-gone tribute to

More ebullient than Belle And Sebastian, less catholic than Peter Bjorn And John and just as tightly tethered to new-wave

Led by guitarist Eric Berg, Athens, Ga.’s Japancakes began as an experiment: What would it be like to get a

Those brought up in the rich tradition of the jazz piano trio, a style that once flourished in the hands

In ancient Rome, opus mixtum was a building technique that involved mixing bricks and stones. Opus Mixtum is also the

Hip hop is, by definition, referential, and underground hip hop prides itself on being referentially obscure. But the smug approach