Category: RECORD REVIEWS

AKRON/FAMILY: Love Is Simple [Young God]

Rock fans squeamish with the hippie-adjacent aesthetic of the unfortunately named freak-folk movement will be weeded out quickly with Akron/Family’s

September 18, 2007 / RECORD REVIEWS

R.I.P. MAGNET Senior Writer Jonathan Valania

A sweet swell of strings is followed by the peripatetic patter of percussion: The E Street Band gets ready to

September 18, 2007 / RECORD REVIEWS

These three Australians relocated from Melbourne to Europe a few years ago, eventually landing in Berlin where they recorded their

September 17, 2007 / RECORD REVIEWS

In her day job as singer/guitarist for Erase Errata, Jenny Hoyston takes a back seat to her monstrous rhythm section,

September 11, 2007 / RECORD REVIEWS

It’s tempting to lump Oakley Hall into some twangy alt-country ghetto with its Gitche-goomee references and ability to wring two

September 11, 2007 / RECORD REVIEWS

Things don’t start all that promisingly when Johnathan Rice opens his sophomore platter with the telltale sound of a Nikon

September 11, 2007 / RECORD REVIEWS

There are two kinds of Black Francis fans: the smallish cult who’ve followed his every whim and U-turn since disbanding

September 11, 2007 / RECORD REVIEWS