Despite all the proof to the contrary, it’s a commonly held belief that rock & roll is a young man’s game. Generally speaking, the mainstream market favors Album Reviews
Bettye LaVette
Worthy
February 17th, 2015 | by Dorian S. Ham | published in Album Reviews | Leave A Comment »
Despite all the proof to the contrary, it’s a commonly held belief that rock & roll is a young man’s game. Generally speaking, the mainstream market favors
A Place to Bury Strangers
Transfixiation
February 16th, 2015 | by Stephen Slaybaugh | published in Album Reviews | Leave A Comment »
Since forming a dozen or so years ago, A Place to Bury Strangers has created a small catalog that seems like a logical extension of the kind of feedback-laden
Marilyn Manson
The Pale Emperor
February 9th, 2015 | by Dorian S. Ham | published in Album Reviews | Leave A Comment »
If a shock rocker can no longer shock, where does he go from there? In a ham-fisted way, that’s been the question plaguing Marilyn Manson for years
Ty Segall Band, Live in San Francisco
Ty Segall, Mr. Face EP
February 6th, 2015 | by Matthew Lovett | published in Album Reviews | Leave A Comment »
Painting Ty Segall as anything but a modern mover and shaker of grisly garage rock is sort of impossible, especially
Title Fight
Hyperview
February 5th, 2015 | by Matthew Lovett | published in Album Reviews | Leave A Comment »
Title Fight is no stranger to making a complete overhaul of its sound. But you don’t even have to trace their entire catalog—one can immediately hear the
Viet Cong
Viet Cong
January 29th, 2015 | by Matthew Lovett | published in Album Reviews | Leave A Comment »
There’s something rapturous about Viet Cong’s self-titled debut that simply can’t be articulated in a way that hasn’t been used to describe its stylistic
The Decemberists
What a Terrible World, What a Beautiful World
January 23rd, 2015 | by Matthew Lovett | published in Album Reviews | Leave A Comment »
There are essentially two volumes to The Decemberists’ on-going story. The first extends from the band’s inception up
Belle and Sebastian
Girls in Peacetime Want to Dance
January 19th, 2015 | by Kevin J. Ellliott | published in Album Reviews | Leave A Comment »
On Dear Catastrophe Waitress and The Life Pursuit, Stuart Murdoch was having fun, dancing for the sake of dancing rather than
Panda Bear
Panda Bear Meets the Grim Reaper
January 14th, 2015 | by Dorian S. Ham | published in Album Reviews | Leave A Comment »
Let’s pause for a moment and marvel at the unlikely success of Animal Collective. Out of all the bands to break out in the early 2000s
Cracker
Berkeley to Bakersfield
December 16th, 2014 | by Dorian S. Ham | published in Album Reviews | Leave A Comment »
As history boils things down to the bullet points, it’s easy to forget that there was always more going on. Neither from Seattle nor particularly “grungy,”