Records

Sean McCann: The Capital

I think I can boil down to a thought why I’m not impressed with Sean McCann’s The Capital while thinking...

Mar 24, 2011

Concerts

Swans

Swans’ live show is infamous. Like fellow sonic punishers My Bloody Valentine, Michael Gira’s first and longest-running project developed a...

Mar 21, 2011

Records

R.E.M.: Collapse Into Now

Like the majority of R.E.M. fans in 2008, I overrated Accelerate. Probably because it wasn’t Around the Sun (2004), still...

Mar 21, 2011

Records

Belong: Common Era

No matter how I try to process it, I find Belong’s second album to be an unexpected and not entirely...

Mar 21, 2011

Records

FOUND: factorycraft

“Typically he’ll write about his provincial, low-life upbringing in the Scottish Borders or the extremes of relationships. Sometimes though, he’ll...

Mar 21, 2011

Tracks

Ponytail: "Easy Peasy"

Announcing their hiatus in mid-2010, Baltimore quartet Ponytail elicited unexpected reconsiderations of the phrase “You’ll miss me when I’m gone.”...

Mar 18, 2011