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
When I last reviewed Emeralds I compared them to Lebron James’ Cavaliers. This was perhaps a critical mistake, engendered by...
May 28, 2010
Oh to have been a fly on the wall backstage on the “Rock and Roll Means Well” tour, a back-slapping,...
May 28, 2010
After I last reviewed a Jumbling Towers track—the stuttering dance step of “Gilberta,” here included and once again one of...
May 28, 2010
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
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
It shouldn’t come as much of a surprise that Arcade Fire, whose politics truck so solidly in the populist that...
May 28, 2010
If you want to get high, go to Low Point. The Nottingham drone label coined that piece of wisdom when...
May 26, 2010
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
In Evening Air earns a lot of potentially damning epithets: it is a new wave record, it is sung by...
May 26, 2010