Tracks
Chad VanGaalen: "Sara"
Diaper Island—Chad VanGaalen’s fourth studio record, not counting his work as Black Mold, and his first since getting producer’s credit...
May 02, 2011
Tracks
Cass McCombs: "County Line"
In the constellation of retro-minimalist indie sadsacks, Cass McCombs has a uniquely depressing niche. It’s near the zen suicide of...
May 01, 2011
Concerts
The Tallest Man on Earth
The Reid Campus Center Coffeehouse is quite possibly my least favorite place to see music anywhere in the world. Between...
Apr 29, 2011
Tracks
Daphni: "Mapfumo"
Besides defining exactly what Dan Snaith meant when he coined the term “liquid dance music,” Swim (2010) also marked the...
Apr 29, 2011
Records
Grimes / d'Eon: Darkbloom Split 12"
Improbably but thankfully, Grimes gets better with every release. As in significantly, staggeringly better. Game-changingly so, each time; we’re not...
Apr 28, 2011
Records
Okkervil River: I Am Very Far
“I am alone”—“je est un autre”—I Am Very Far. In the album’s title, there tussles a bold-faced, Rimbaudian anguish. And...
Apr 28, 2011
Records
Computer at Sea: Palace of the Lightbulbs EP
When Owen Ashworth aka Casiotone for the Painfully Alone announced he was hanging up his keyboards last year, hundreds were...
Apr 28, 2011
Records
Arpline: Travel Book
What happens to a band like Muse? Not as in “Where do they go?”, because the answer to that is...
Apr 28, 2011