Concerts

Dom

Dom is able to do enough—song-defining bridges, perfect guitar leads, eerily high vocals—that any disinterest expressed in furthering the cause...

Tracks

Shad & Dallas: "Live Forever (Math Rosen remix)"

It’s not uncommon that a remix will simply tweak and reconfigure a mediocre song until it resembles something passably interesting....

Records

Bill Callahan: Apocalypse

Bill Callahan has the voice of an Old Testament God talking to himself. It’s a plaintive, colloquial voice booming omnipotent...

Records

Boris: New Album

There really is only one appropriate way to begin this review:

What. The. Fuck.

Question mark. Exclamation point.

Boris’ new album, called New...

Records

The Vandelles: Summer Fling EP

As a Midwesterner, I’ve always had a tendency to romanticize summer, to search for that right mood-music come final spring...

Records

Hyper: The Panic

When a man called Hyper from a record label called Kilowatt announces he’s made his most devastating album to date,...

CMGcasts

XCIV

Enjoy a passport to refreshment to the sounds of: Grimes, Hood Internet, Frank Ocean, Thunder & Lightning, Sean Nicholas Savage, Dirty Beaches…

Tracks

Biotron Shelf: "Three Ten to Euston"

Label bosses don’t often get to out-compose their own signings, so when Murray “Mint” Fisher and Will “Cheju” Bolton joined...

Records

Foo Fighters: Wasting Light

Every day Dave Grohl isn’t stationed behind a drumkit, a puppy dies. So goes the balance of the universe. That...