Tracks
Superchunk: "This Summer"
When we were kids taking our regular summer road trip from Illinois to Pennsylvania, my brother and I would often...
Jun 29, 2012
Tracks
Sunless '97: "Body Weather"
Sunless ’97 are a hard group to pin down: a duo on their press sheet, a trio in photographs, and...
Jun 25, 2012
Records
Fiona Apple : The Idler Wheel...
In this Era of Immediacy, when artists churn out records at a James Patterson-like rate, or at least squeeze out...
Jun 22, 2012
Records
Swans: We Rose From Your Bed with the Sun in Our Head
In a recent discussion about this album, I made mention of Michael Gira’s once and now thankfully abandoned tendency to...
Jun 22, 2012
Records
Guided by Voices: Class Clown Spots a UFO
Guided by Voices are victims of their own greatness. Hiatus notwithstanding, they’ve been so good for so long that we’ve...
Jun 22, 2012
Records
The Young : Dub Egg
The Young is slow, very slow, on its Matador debut Dub Egg, which is all kinds of surprising when you...
Jun 22, 2012
Articles
"this show was unique and will take many weeks to replace"
As details are still emerging in what is undoubtedly a tragedy on all fronts, “Radiohead” the Entity today released a...
Jun 21, 2012
Tracks
Jim Bob: "The Ghost of Christmas Boring"
When a politician dies there’s only one explanation: natural causes. Shot in a brothel? Natural causes. Tied to a gearbox...
Jun 19, 2012