Records
Brian Glaze: Green Living
Hi, Brian Jonestown Massacre! I love you to death; I love you even when, truth told, I don’t keep up...
Aug 31, 2009
Records
Merzbow: Hiranya
Given that Merzbow has released more albums in 2009 than some of our staff writers have published reviews, and being...
Aug 31, 2009
Records
WHY?: Eskimo Snow
I’ve had enough conversations with insomniac comrades to understand the brain’s “off” switch sometimes short-circuits, triggering nights-to-mornings of restless tossing...
Aug 28, 2009
Records
Arctic Monkeys: Humbug
Give the Arctic Monkeys credit: they’ve seemingly hit on the perfect formula for wringing career longevity out of what could...
Aug 28, 2009
Records
Ilad: Here/There
Playful, intelligent, and surprising, Ilad’s second album of semi-improv rock manages to hit a number of rock tropes and pleasure...
Aug 28, 2009
Records
Vladislav Delay: Tummaa
I can’t claim to know much about what making electronic music consists of in a nuts-and-bolts kind of way but...
Aug 28, 2009
Tracks
Girls: "Lust For Life"
“Lust For Life,” the first single by Girls, is accurately named, unlike Girls, which consists San Franciscans Christopher Owens and...
Aug 27, 2009
Tracks
Blitzen Trapper: "Black River Killer"
Before there was Man on Wire (2008), documentary filmmaker James Marsh shot the bone-chilling Wisconsin Death Trip (1999)—a slide show...
Aug 27, 2009
Festivals
Things We Yelled At Ourselves
“Boobies!” Asher Roth cried to his throbbing wet crowd, and the throbbing wet crowd spit the word rapturously back into...
Aug 27, 2009