Tracks
Icarus Himself: "Girl>Boy"
The perfect tonic for those on a combat high from Red Dead Redemption, Icarus Himself’s new EP Mexico gives you...
Jun 19, 2010
Tracks
Casiokids: "Verdens Største Land"
“Verdens Største Land” starts out with some clattery Architecture in Helsinki-esque percussion noodles, but slowly all its parts start clicking...
Jun 18, 2010
Records
Drake: Thank Me Later
I gotta hand it to Drake; I had no idea his ego was ready for a leap of this magnitude....
Jun 18, 2010
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Echospace: Liumin
Where to after perfection—the dilemma that’s stumped a great many hikers, Steve Hitchell and Rod Modell among them. When the...
Jun 18, 2010
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Villagers: Becoming a Jackal
Becoming a Jackal, written and performed entirely by Irish singer-songwriter Conor O’Brien, is the stuff of a modernist’s pure and...
Jun 18, 2010
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Damien Jurado: Saint Bartlett
Damien Jurado, prolific indie voice of Middle America that he is, will seemingly, long past the point at which we...
Jun 18, 2010
Festivals
2010 Sasquatch! Music Festival
The 2010 Sasquatch! Music Festival inhabited Memorial Day weekend, and from there, with gleaming pride, it declared itself an American...
Jun 15, 2010
Records
The Cool Kids / Shabazz Palaces: Tacklebox / Of Light / Shabazz Palaces
If anything, I underrated the Cool Kids’ last mixtape at 73%: Gone Fishing is pound-for-pound one of the most aurally...
Jun 12, 2010
Records
The Lodger: Flashbacks
A friend of a friend recently introduced himself to me as a “happy curmudgeon.” I’ve spent the subsequent weeks marveling...
Jun 12, 2010