Records
Shearwater: The Golden Archipelago
Jonathan Meiburg finds in the tiny Micronesian atoll of Bikini such a close affinity with his own personal obsessions that...
Mar 06, 2010
Records
The Strange Boys: Be Brave
Ryan Sambol, the lead singer of the Strange Boys, sings in a voice that seems to escape, slantwise, from a...
Mar 06, 2010
Records
Small Black: Small Black EP
It’s tempting, when discussing an EP like Small Black, to lazily snipe it as scapegoat. I did it last year...
Mar 06, 2010
Records
Shonen Knife: Free Time
Shonen Knife has been a low-level presence in my life—started with late-night KROQ in the mid ’90s, rekindled by...
Mar 06, 2010
Tracks
Gonjasufi: "Ancestors"
It starts with what sounds like an excerpt from Jeff Mangum’s woozy radio collages: first a wash of melancholy accordion,...
Mar 04, 2010
Interviews
Beach House
The Baltimore duo Beach House recently released their third (and quite possibly best) album, Teen Dream, their first for Sub...
Mar 04, 2010
Tracks
Caribou: "Odessa"
When Dan Snaith flipped the switch three years ago from funky, diced, largely instrumental music to purely vocal psychedelic pop,...
Mar 01, 2010
Tracks
The Lykes of Yew: "Mr. Wednesday"
So you all know Mr. Wednesday: he came number two in a list of Top Ten Things Which Catch You...
Mar 01, 2010
Records
Joanna Newsom: Have One On Me
For all the outlandish moments and reckless indulgences filed away in the idiosyncratic history of pop music, there has never...
Mar 01, 2010