Category: RECORD REVIEWS

When Donavan Quinn and Glenn Donaldson started the Skygreen Leopards in 2001, they agreed upon some ground rules. They would

The shift that Titus Andronicus makes with A Productive Cough shouldn’t catch us off guard—long have Patrick Stickles and Co.

Franz Ferdinand is playing at James Murphy’s house. One of the best Franz Ferdinand performances is on an LCD Soundsystem

Franz Ferdinand seems to have a thing for laziness. In addition to the Glasgow band’s generally louche persona, there’s a

Anyone who’s been cussed out by “Ben Franklin’s Song” knows Colin Meloy still has some poison left in his quill.

Weezer, the 10th album by Weezer, is about as good (or bad, your call) as Weezer, several measures worse than

Bobby Gillespie of Primal Scream and Jesus And Mary Chain fame is often noted with the phrase, “A band is only

Sixty years ago today, explosively melodic jazz pianist Erroll Garner lit a fire in a Carmel By The Sea, Calif.,

I have no doubt that John Dwyer and the occasionally rotating crew of musicians he calls Thee Oh Sees are

According to William Blake, “The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom … you never know what is

Continuing their film-buff aesthetic (band moniker plus the director their side project Herzog is named for—look it up if necessary)

It’s not as if Jim O’Rourke made easily digestible vocal records when he was part of the indie-avant pop milieu

The pleasantly cacophonous joy of Kori Gardner and Jason Hammel is the unpredictable blessing and occasional curse of Mates Of

Evan Caminiti’s main gig is Barn Owl, a duo in which he helps concoct desert-scorched drones that are pierced by