Album Reviews
Creative compulsion can be an aggravating force without focus. For the typical modern artist, one…
New movements and enterprising bands continually try to breath life into the fetid crypt of…
The 21st Century thus far, in hindsight. has been kind of a head scratcher as…
Hip-hop is constantly evolving. For a genre still relatively young, it has managed to permeate…
In an early interview with Sonny Smith, founder of San Francisco’s Sonny and the Sunsets, the…
Beth Orton wastes no time in delivering a mantra during the opening moments of her…
Will Toledo’s first full-band album for Matador Records is a coming-of-age odyssey.
A versatile performer with a tendency to go down a sinister and abrasive path—having lent…
In 2010 I encountered two albums in swift succession that wove the threads of minimal…
The Chicago emcee’s highly anticipated third mixtape is an infectious collection of soulful, joyous hip-hop.
Rock and roll’s most prolific and storied songwriter is no stranger to releasing albums comprising…
The UK art rock icons’ recent surprise release is a dense and aching statement to be pored over.
Buy at iTunes Noise has long been nipping at the heels of hip-hop for decades,…
The current pop music landscape is not one in which it’s easy to be minimalistic…
Stephen Wilkinson’s eighth LP is neither folk nor ‘tronica, neither heart nor soul.
It’s been an unfortunate two years for Domenic Palermo, frontman of the Philadelphia-based shoegazers, Nothing.…
Jordan Lee follows up his excellent debut with a beautiful and meditative set of indie folk gems.
Seth Haley has two settings on this Wayback Machine: Minneapolis and Manchester.
With the Internet rapidly transforming from a kind of Wild West to a corporate playground…