Records
Emeralds: Does It Look Like I'm Here?
When I last reviewed Emeralds I compared them to Lebron James’ Cavaliers. This was perhaps a critical mistake, engendered by...
May 28, 2010
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Drive-By Truckers / The Hold Steady: The Big To-Do / Heaven is Whenever
Oh to have been a fly on the wall backstage on the “Rock and Roll Means Well” tour, a back-slapping,...
May 28, 2010
Records
Jumbling Towers: The Kanetown City Rips
After I last reviewed a Jumbling Towers track—the stuttering dance step of “Gilberta,” here included and once again one of...
May 28, 2010
Records
The Pipettes: Stop the Music
Cokemachineglow’s last foray into the world of the Pipettes was a 1,700-word treatise on French philosophy, feminism, and sexism...
May 28, 2010
Tracks
Christina Aguilera: "You Lost Me (Live on American Idol)"
It was a Season 9 finale where America finally found its quintessential Idol, a.k.a. a dude who sings every song...
May 28, 2010
Tracks
Arcade Fire: "The Suburbs"
It shouldn’t come as much of a surprise that Arcade Fire, whose politics truck so solidly in the populist that...
May 28, 2010
Tracks
Christopher Hipgrave: "Strange Attractor"
If you want to get high, go to Low Point. The Nottingham drone label coined that piece of wisdom when...
May 26, 2010
Tracks
Quack Quack: "Jack of None"
Yorkshire trio Quack Quack’s bang-along space-pop and elephant bass is porn for people who hum. And I don’t just mean...
May 26, 2010
Records
Future Islands: In Evening Air
In Evening Air earns a lot of potentially damning epithets: it is a new wave record, it is sung by...
May 26, 2010