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Mogwai: The Hawk is Howling

Young Team turned ten last year, and those following the resulting reminiscences probably got the idea that Mogwai themselves cared...

Sep 19, 2008

This is Notwist’s long-awaited follow-up to Neon Golden (2002). It should be a lot of things, maybe an arch culmination...

Sep 19, 2008

Whimsy, apparently, has died. At the hands of the Black Kids, too, it seems; they’re damaging “fun” music as if...

Sep 19, 2008

Brian Wilson fans have a singular tolerance for shittiness. Witness how an album containing the line “They isolate their heads...

Sep 17, 2008

This record is good. But first, we need to talk about Mass Effect.

One of the biggest and most deeply flawed...

Sep 17, 2008

This could have been so much worse. We could have heard this Japanese trio’s neu-metal filtered through a strainer to...

Sep 17, 2008

Hey you. You like post-grunge? You remember Everclear? How about Silverchair? Does this line ring a bell: “I will treat...

Sep 17, 2008

What is it with these artists who drop one bomb and then vanish forever into the crowd? It’s like they’re...

Sep 16, 2008

:: Photos by Ron Ulicny

Again: Wee!

Frightened, the Vampire Weekend fan called his mom for a ride but...

Sep 16, 2008