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Annie Lennox
Nostalgia

Nostalgia seems harmless, but Annie Lennox’s so-named new album is a real oddity. Ice Queen Annie, she of buzz cuts and Scottish alabaster, heady

Unwound
No Energy

Chapter three, No Energy, in which Numero Group continues their quest to convince us of Unwound's undiminished greatness. Let me cut to the chase

Zola Jesus
Taiga

It's not hard to imagine Zola Jesus wanting to have some fun after four LPs and a handful of EPs filled with strange, often haunting music. That intended fun

Fucked Up
Beachland Ballroom, Cleveland, July 9

This gig was apparently a sort of homecoming for Fucked Up, who played their first US show in Cleveland and have strong ties to

Hamilton Leithauser
Black Hours

I do miss The Walkmen. They were one of my favorite live acts, getting better and better all the time, and their records arrived with

Bob Mould
Beauty & Ruin

Mr. Mould worked slowly but surely on his “return to form” for four years or so, beginning with the middle bits of 2009’s Life and Times and climaxing

The Pains of Being Pure at Heart
Days of Abandon

Before putting the digital needle to the first song of The Pains of Being Pure at Heart’s new album, Days of Abandon, I was pretty sure of what I

Ben Frost
A U R O R A

Destructive, defiant, rancid—these are the kind of words Ben Frost tosses around to describe what he's going for on his new release, A U R O R A

Ambrose Akinmusire
The Imagined Savior Is Far Easier to Paint

We can put aside the question of Ambrose Akinmusire’s skill, as well as any doubts about the tight, tasteful playing

Unwound
Rat Conspiracy

Numero Group’s first passion-fueled boxset of Unwound recordings, Kid Is Gone, received as much love and care as one could imagine, despite the fact

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