Articles
"Shit in a bag, set it on fire / Open your door, there's a bag on fire"
The pure geek audacity of the thing is breathtaking.
Jan 14, 2010
Records
Vic Chesnutt: Skitter on Take-Off / At the Cut
Vic Chesnutt saw a darkness. That much is clear on the songwriter’s best albums, specifically Drunk (1993) and Is the...
Jan 11, 2010
Records
Class Actress: Journal of Ardency EP
There’s nothing at all sportsmanlike about picking away at a Brooklyn-based electro-pop band. Less wholly derivative of New Order than...
Jan 11, 2010
Records
Blockhead: The Music Scene
While we were busy bemoaning the hypothetical death of hip-hop the past few years, perhaps we should have paid more...
Jan 11, 2010
Records
Lindstrøm: Little Drummer Boy
Space disco eyes couldn’t help but twinkle, sugarplums couldn’t help but head-dance when the news broke of Hans-Peter Lindstrøm’s 42-minute...
Jan 11, 2010
Tracks
Xiu Xiu: "Chocolate Makes You Happy"
Xiu Xiu appears to be inching closer to an essential Xiu-ness—not, perhaps, towards their best songs, which always seem to...
Jan 11, 2010
Tracks
Sunset Provision: "By Friday I Will Be Gone"
Who wants revenge on meteorology? Well get behind me in the queue. I’ve had it with black ice and all-night...
Jan 11, 2010
Tracks
Uffie: "MCs Can Kiss"
Uffie is the anti-Lil Wayne. Whereas Dwayne Carter has in the last three years released his currently-definitive statements—Da Drought 3,...
Jan 06, 2010
Tracks
The Kid: "Citizen I"
Another decade, another generation of first timers left feeling numb by the big city. And though the Kid—nothing to do...
Jan 04, 2010