Concerts
Surfer Blood / Japandroids
Detained at the border for something like three hours because of too much merch (that’s right, Canada, you can keep...
Dec 04, 2009
Articles
This just in: Throwing Copper was pretty good, actually
Man, for a suburban 14-year-old just starting to get into that early ’90s juggernaut known as Alternative Rock, Live’s Throwing...
Dec 03, 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
Concerts
Fuck Buttons
There is absolutely nothing less fun than a noise show, which I had determined in advance this Fuck Buttons one...
Nov 26, 2009
Concerts
Slumberland 20th Anniversary Show
Last month I saw the Pains of Being Pure at Heart play to a packed Black Cat in DC and...
Nov 23, 2009
Articles
Lady Gaga is a tool of the Illuminati
There are times in the annals of criticism when an object is so dense with meaning that the only proper...
Nov 12, 2009
Articles
Into the Kanye West
So apparently I’m too late and Spike Jonze has demanded that the entire Internet, and that includes Kanye, take down...
Nov 09, 2009
Articles
The Sleazy, Lipstick-Stained Now
Swordfishtrombones was about wet socks and depression, after all.
Nov 09, 2009