Records
Geoffrey O'Connor: Vanity Is Forever
Geoffrey O’Connor’s debut under his given name is far from his first record. Over the course of the last decade,...
Oct 25, 2011
Tracks
Massive Attack vs. Burial: "Four Walls"
What makes Burial so predisposed to repeat listening is the tendency his music has to infiltrate the brain—his productions bedding...
Oct 24, 2011
Records
Rich Aucoin: We're All Dying to Live
There are essentially two breeds of music lover in Canada: those who believe Rich Aucoin to be one of the...
Oct 22, 2011
Records
Various Artists: Not the Spaces You Know, But Between Them Comp
It’s not quite the charity compilation, but the label anniversary comp is one of the banes of a music writer’s...
Oct 22, 2011
Records
Dum Dum Girls: Only in Dreams
The consensus on Dum Dum Girls via their debut album I Will Be (2010), and to some extent its follow-up...
Oct 22, 2011
Records
Talkdemonic: Ruins
It’s funny how genre descriptors take on a life of their own. Take, for example, the nebulous term “post-rock”—about as...
Oct 22, 2011
Concerts
Jens Lekman w/ Geoffrey O'Connor
While Jens Lekman’s new EP, An Argument With Myself, is his highest-fi outing yet, with all but one sample removed...
Oct 21, 2011
Tracks
Aquarelle: "The Blue Light Was My Baby"
When Ryan Potts says he’s found a new way of treating ambient music, he isn’t yanking your chain. It’s nothing...
Oct 20, 2011
NBHcasts
XVII
Enjoy sweatering it up to the sounds of: New Animal, Summer Hearts, Orval Carlos Sibelius, Algodon Egipcio, Radiator Girls, We Don’t Surf, Bikini (remixed by Grimes)…
Oct 20, 2011