Tracks
Tiny Magnetic Pets: "Spaced"
Bands named after toys—can that one work? It might not be as colourful as the film named after toys (that’s...
Jul 13, 2009
Tracks
Regina Spektor: "Laughing With"
Well, I guess it’s inevitable. Even the fiercest artists turn to the profound, like a slow pitch to the listener,...
Jul 13, 2009
Festivals
Bonnaroo 2009, Pt. 2: The Springsteen-Reznor Contrast
I’ve spent a little over three years now—the last three—discovering with astonished bemusement how I’m apt to react to circumstances...
Jul 13, 2009
Tracks
Hari & Aino: "A Considerate Kind of Home" / "Maple"
I am old and cynical. I hate promise and possibility, beautiful homes, and success, yet today, if only for a...
Jul 10, 2009
Records
Future of the Left: Travels With Myself and Another
Mclusky were sort of the Vincent Van Gogh of skull-crushing, Albini-produced indie-rawk, criminally underappreciated in life, endlessly lauded in death....
Jul 10, 2009
Records
Moby: Wait For Me
Pity Moby: he sold out a scant half-decade or so before it became trendy again. Before The OC and “Since...
Jul 10, 2009
Records
Renminbi: Surface EP
Worldly elements are hot in New York City. Among the examples: David Longstreth’s guitar style is often compared to King...
Jul 10, 2009
Records
Wale: Back to the Feature Mixtape
Searching for some loose narrative to awkwardly apply to this unnamed decade’s hip-hop, as we writerly types insufferably must, the...
Jul 10, 2009