Warnings / Promises is the type of album that brings up a lot of questions. Of course it sucks. How...
Oct 30, 2007
This is a backlash. I mean, technically, I am lashing back. This review would not exist had Pitchfork not decided...
Oct 30, 2007
Why does it hurt so bad to like this album? I came out behind Hot Hot Heat’s 2003 slam dunk...
Oct 30, 2007
Metronomic drums struggle through scattered static bursts. A chord is filtered through a guitar; an outline emerges; at last, a...
Oct 30, 2007
A true story:
We stood beneath the awning taking thirsty drags on our meticulously hand-rolled cigarettes, listening...
Oct 30, 2007
In lieu of writing another introductory paragraph tracing the paths of all of the post-millennial American buzz bands, let me...
Oct 30, 2007
Q(s): What in the fuck am I doing reviewing Girl Talk? Does Greg Gillis need CMG’s press? Aren’t we...
Oct 30, 2007
“Ghost is back!” trumpets the spastic, kick-heavy Rakim-biting first track, but, I mean, really, what the fuck. Don’t call it...
Oct 30, 2007
Being that I lack both the stomach and the time to interpret fully the legacy of Marshall Mathers, and that...
Oct 30, 2007