Category: RECORD REVIEWS

Mascott is the art project of Manhattanite Kendall Jane Meade, a seraph-voiced singer and sometime Off-Broadway songwriter. Conversely, Art Project

FREDRIK Na Na Ni [The Kora] The debut by this Malmö, Sweden, six-piece comes on like typical Scandinavian folk pop.

End Of The World singer/drummer Stefan Marolachakis sounds so much like the Walkmen’s Hamilton Leithauser that you’d be forgiven for

Ask for Englishman Roy Harper’s references and you’ll get pages of popular and semi-popular names that span decades. Led Zeppelin

After the breakout success of 2007’s Cryptograms, Deerhunter has expanded its sonic palette without sacrificing the innovation or excitement that’s

The Velvet Underground’s first album ranks among the most plagiarized of all time: Its strident melodies, dark subject matter and

Female singer/songwriters are an easily maligned bunch. It is nothing, after all, to lump one in with two dozen others

For every Eagles Of Death Metal devotee letting loose the devil horns, there’s usually a dumbfounded friend using those same

If 2007’s Mapmaker was created a palpable buzz for Parts & Labor, Receivers should raise the noise to a distorted

“‘I have watched you all these years,’ said the Moon to me, ‘But when you are gone for good, I

For whatever cosmic reason, both of these discs from the post-Royal Trux outfits of Jennifer Herrema and Neil Michael Hagerty

You thought Woody Allen’s coital exploits were icky? Welcome to Skeletal Lamping, which could’ve been titled Everything You Never Wanted

Long before there was a small army of people on Craigslist available at your fingertips for a potential midnight kiss

Eric Bachmann’s post-Archers Of Loaf outfit makes music in an unpredictable mix of styles, from 2000’s woozy, strings-laden self-titled debut