Category: RECORD REVIEWS

2005’s The Weight Is A Gift found Nada Surf frontman Matthew Caws dealing with the fallout of a toxic relationship.

As with most of the bands on the indie-pop Matineé label, it’s apparent that the C-86 movement was a huge

Joe Jackson has earned the right to the nostalgia trip he’s been on this decade, having worn many hats in

Chris Walla is a talented guy. His role as guitarist, producer and co-writer in Death Cab For Cutie has led

For Thao Nguyen’s second LP, she enlisted backing band the Get Down Stay Down, and the 11 tunes here are

On 2005 debut The Best Little Secrets Are Kept, these SoCal glam/ garage avatars milked the casual-sex-as-comedic-art teat for all

The combustible Archers Of Loaf begat the bucolic Crooked Fingers, so it’s not entirely shocking that Daniel Littleton came of

To anyone surprised that the lo-fi catchiness of the Whigs has blossomed into full-blown rock majesty on their second album,

Chan Marshall owes her career as much to psychodrama as music, but it’s just now that she’s reached her most

With 2006’s A Blessing And A Curse, the Drive-By Truckers—perhaps one of the most respected bands to emerge from the

Catherine Avenue is the album Rilo Kiley could’ve wowed the world with if Jenny Lewis and Co. learned the art

Art Di Furia’s Photon Band was one of the cornerstones of Psychedelphia, a loose coterie of Philly bands from the

To listen to Evangelicals’ second album, you’d think the studio was hip deep in musicians, a la the Polyphonic Spree.

The list of band members on this Ohio trio’s MySpace page says it all: Hamish Kilgour, Mark Ibold and Brix