Records
O.V. Wright: Memphis Unlimited Reissue
It’s easy to miss how good this album is. Though it captures one of soul’s great voices and one of...
Jun 01, 2009
Records
Pocketbooks: Flight Paths
“Suspiciously quiet” whimpers Pocketbooks frontman Andy Hudson ten tracks into Flight Paths. He’s got a point—a hot new London indie...
Jun 01, 2009
Records
Omar Souleyman: Dabke 2020 (Folk and Pop Sounds of Syria)
Dabke, a popular music and dance style in the Middle East, means “stomping of the feet” in Arabic. Taking its...
Jun 01, 2009
Interviews
Outspoken Alpha Intellect
Leslie Tongai Makawa, aka Outspoken Alpha Intellect, is an up-and-coming rapper and activist from the southern African nation of Zimbabwe....
Jun 01, 2009
Records
Eminem: Relapse
Eminem is not today what Eminem might have been. Better, one might say, that he just dissolve, as had seemed...
May 29, 2009
Records
Black Moth Super Rainbow: Eating Us
If you predicted that Dave Fridmann producing Black Moth Super Rainbow would result in something a lot more Air-like, pat...
May 29, 2009
Records
City Center: City Center
I’m not that charitable with albums that don’t have any idea what they want to be. Jam a stake into...
May 29, 2009
Records
White Rabbits: It's Frightening
It ain’t easy being an indie rock fan in 2009. As a label it’s otiose in the most frustratingly hollow...
May 29, 2009
Concerts
French Kicks
French Kicks’ Nick Stumpf didn’t seem particularly enthused when I said hello before his band’s recent show at the Picador...
May 29, 2009