Records
Riz MC: MICroscope
Actors switching to hip-hop is a terrible idea and usually a well-documented disaster, particularly when the process happens in reverse...
Feb 24, 2011
Records
Dirty Beaches: Badlands
What does it mean, in 2011, to name your album after a movie from the early 1970s that’s set in...
Feb 24, 2011
Records
Yuck: Yuck
Yuck, the self-titled debut from the NME‘s latest hot young British band of choice, is not a particularly good record....
Feb 24, 2011Tracks
The Strokes: "Under Cover of Darkness"
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
Tracks
Dumbo Gets Mad: "Marmelade Kids"
We all have our favorite memories of Disney losing their shit. Whether it’s “Night on Bald Mountain” being played in...
Feb 22, 2011
Interviews
Danielson
It is perhaps the understatement of the century to say that New Jersey gets a bad rap, and though it’s...
Feb 22, 2011
Records
PJ Harvey: Let England Shake
Perhaps we should automatically privilege any album that attempts to be explicitly political. Call it unfair, call it lazy; I...
Feb 22, 2011
Records
R. Kelly: Love Letter
R. Kelly’s tenth album, Love Letter, may very well be the first R. Kelly album in a decade that doesn’t...
Feb 22, 2011
Records
Tearjerker: Strangers
Toronto’s Tearjerker is an assemblage of everything I want from a band bearing the “shoegaze” family crest—namely, that deeply appealing...
Feb 22, 2011