Records
Mika Miko: We Be Xuxa
I’ve had album-of-the-year/decade lists on the brain for the past couple of weeks; perhaps you have too. (“List”-omania, amiright? No?...
Dec 12, 2009
Records
Loscil: The Strathcona Variations EP
Pitchfork’s Cosmo Lee recently wrote of the Toronto noise-rock project Nadja that their methodology “virtually precludes producing duds.” There’s something...
Dec 12, 2009
Articles
Holy shit, Billy Corgan and Jessica Simpson are fucking
Billy Corgan may have lost a drummer in the last year, but he’s gained a Simpson. The Huffington Post...
Dec 12, 2009
Records
CFCF: Continent
When dance music doesn’t want you to dance, then what exactly does it want you to do? My guess is...
Dec 10, 2009
Records
Joakim: Milky Ways
French DJ and dance music auteur Joakim Bouaziz has the sort of left-field instincts for which Girl Talk can only...
Dec 10, 2009
Records
The Big Pink: A Brief History of Love
Not really sure what the Big Pink was thinking with that name. In this environment, giving yourselves a moniker inspired...
Dec 10, 2009
Records
Meso Meso: Spoon
Let’s end the first decade of the third millennium in the way apocalyptic cult Aum Shinrikyo would want to: divine...
Dec 10, 2009
Concerts
Phoenix / Constantines
A Phoenix concert paints a picture of a mercurial band heading in the direction of unmistakably mainstream success, not unlike...
Dec 10, 2009