Records
Animal Collective: Fall Be Kind EP
I get the feeling I’m going to be writing a lot of reviews like this. Animal Collective continue to put...
Dec 01, 2009
Records
Bedroom Eyes: Embrace in Stereo / Valentine Vacancy EP
Pop songs are small things. A bit of harmony, a bit of rhythm. A little snatch of melody. The very...
Dec 01, 2009
Records
Jason Urick: Husbands
Insofar as weekly reviews can be insistent, mine have definitely been that 2009’s class of ambient music is among the...
Dec 01, 2009
Records
Little Boots: Hands
New in town? Little Boots has your back. The streets aren’t safe around here and you can’t trust just anyone,...
Dec 01, 2009
Concerts
Max Tundra / Deastro
Playing to a morosely undernourished room, the increasingly sensible pairing of Detroit’s Deastro and not-Detroit’s Max Tundra received very little...
Dec 01, 2009
Articles
At last: Music critics on music criticism
Selected CMG staffers’ reactions to Eye Weekly’s interview with music critic Christopher Weingarten, a dude who reviewed 1,000...
Dec 01, 2009
Records
Pill: 4075: The Refill Mixtape
It must be a weird time to be a relatively unknown rapper—a good number of them are releasing veritable torrents...
Nov 28, 2009
Records
Mission of Burma: The Sound The Speed The Light
In this current rock climate dominated by sensitive beards and laptop jockeys, Mission of Burma’s continued, three-decade no-bullshit approach to...
Nov 28, 2009
Records
Grass Widow: Grass Widow (LP) / Grass Widow (EP)
There is a way of pinpointing, with almost mathematical precision, the saturation point of a trend: it’s the moment at...
Nov 28, 2009