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The Elected: "Go For The Throat"

For most of their tenure, Rilo Kiley was considered Jenny Lewis’s band: she was the charismatic frontwoman, the principle songwriter,...

Apr 05, 2011

The Pains of Being Pure at Heart adhere to a very specific mood. Which isn’t to say anything about their...

Mar 31, 2011

Coming of age as I did in that dark era during which Blink-182 dominated the airwaves, inspiring even more idiot...

Mar 25, 2011

Kurt Vile’s Smoke Ring For My Halo is, for lack of a better phrase, obsession-worthy: a piece of work so...

Mar 16, 2011

A Jonathan Richman concert is likely to give you a warm and fuzzy feeling. At last Tuesday’s show in Pittsburgh,...

Mar 15, 2011

Solo records are rarely prequels. Not often will an artist build a career on his/her own and then join a...

Mar 08, 2011

Kurt Vile makes it sound so easy. “Ghost Town,” the first track released from his forthcoming Smoke Ring for my...

Mar 03, 2011

Yuck, the self-titled debut from the NME‘s latest hot young British band of choice, is not a particularly good record....

Feb 24, 2011

The Strokes just released a new single. It’s called “Under Cover of Darkness” and it’s from their long-anticipated fourth album,...

Feb 24, 2011