Tracks
Stephen Emmer & Lou Reed: "Passengers"
From little-known Dutch composer Stephen Emmer comes the smartest, most well-read album of the year…literally. A spoken word record for...
Nov 13, 2008
Tracks
Caspa: "Rubber Chicken"
Whoa. This tune merits some explanation. The dubstep producer’s success is definitely not measured by the girth of his or...
Nov 13, 2008
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Glasvegas: "Geraldine"
Glasvegas was handpicked to open Echo & the Bunnymen’s recent New York City performance of Ocean Rain (1984). Presumably this...
Nov 13, 2008
Records
Mount Eerie: Lost Wisdom
When Phil Elverum enunciates simply on this record’s title track, “Lost Wisdom / is a quiet echo,” I think...
Nov 12, 2008
Records
Q-Tip: The Renaissance
“What’s Q-Tip doing trapped in a bizzaro Gap ad from 1999? Wait—this is awesome.”
Thus was my introduction to the long-awaited...
Nov 12, 2008
Records
The Marches: 4 a.m. is the New Midnight
This record is a mess but so am I…and so are all my friends. The New Midnight (my preferred, lazy...
Nov 12, 2008
Records
Big Black: Sound of Impact
I like noise. I like big-ass vicious noise that makes my head spin. I wanna feel it whipping through me...
Nov 12, 2008
Interviews
Black Milk
Betz’s review elucidates far more thoroughly than I could just how immense Black Milk’s latest great leap forward is,...
Nov 11, 2008
Tracks
Okay: "Goal"
The Bay Bridged, those energetic supporters of the Bay Area music scene, have culled together the second compilation in their...
Nov 11, 2008