In an alternate timeline of the alternative nation, the emergence and ultimate disintegration of Chicago’s Cap’n Jazz would be watershed moments Album Reviews
Owls
Two
April 3rd, 2014 | by Dorian S. Ham | published in Album Reviews | Leave A Comment »
In an alternate timeline of the alternative nation, the emergence and ultimate disintegration of Chicago’s Cap’n Jazz would be watershed moments
Ambrose Akinmusire
The Imagined Savior Is Far Easier to Paint
April 2nd, 2014 | by Matt Slaybaugh | published in Album Reviews | Leave A Comment »
We can put aside the question of Ambrose Akinmusire’s skill, as well as any doubts about the tight, tasteful playing
Elvis Presley
Elvis Recorded Live On Stage in Memphis
March 31st, 2014 | by Ron Wadlinger | published in Album Reviews | Leave A Comment »
By 1974, Elvis Presley had essentially reached the last stage of his iconic performing career. It might be fitting, then
Mount Carmel
Get Pure
March 28th, 2014 | by Dorian S. Ham | published in Album Reviews | Leave A Comment »
Does the future of music lie in the past? What’s the line between inspiration and imitation? Can you be simultaneously impressed and unimpressed?
Jimi Goodwin
Odulek
March 27th, 2014 | by Stephen Slaybaugh | published in Album Reviews | Leave A Comment »
Doves may have been the great unsung Brit rock heroes of the turn of the century, at least on this side of the pond. In the States, the band occupied
Spirits and the Melchizedek Children
So Happy, It’s Sad
March 26th, 2014 | by Stephen Slaybaugh | published in Album Reviews | Leave A Comment »
On their sophomore album, So Happy, It’s Sad, Spirits and the Melchizedek Children divine slowburning songs that ooze with
Pins
Girls Like Us
March 25th, 2014 | by Stephen Slaybaugh | published in Album Reviews | Leave A Comment »
In the title track to Pins’ debut, Girls Like Us, it’s easy to hear a post–riot grrl rallying cry that also points back to luminaries like Au Pairs and Slits
The Coathangers
Suck My Shirt
March 24th, 2014 | by Dorian S. Ham | published in Album Reviews | Leave A Comment »
Bands come together for a variety of reasons but the most classic reason is “the goof” or “joke band.” It’s something kind of thrown together to play
Freddie Gibbs and Madlib
Pinata
March 21st, 2014 | by Matt Slaybaugh | published in Album Reviews | Leave A Comment »
To the uninitiated, Madlib and Freddie Gibbs getting together to release Pinata via the former’s Madlib Invazion label might seem out of character
Various Artists
Young Money: Rise of an Empire
March 18th, 2014 | by Dorian S. Ham | published in Album Reviews | Leave A Comment »
For a genre that’s often focused on the individual, hip-hop really loves a crew. The associations are a short hand co-sign or a way to brand a movement