Top 10 Albums

10. PC Music, DISown Radio Mix (self-released)
It’s rare that I’ll include any kind of mixtape on a year-end list (actually I’m pretty sure it’s unprecedented, unless I included Diplo’s first mix for MIA years back), but what the shadowy, commercially bent PC Music enclave did with utopian electronic pop throughout the course of the year was undeniable. I spent much more …

“Something’s gotta happen, something’s gotta change,” seems like a familiar refrain in the world of cagey guitar rock, the product of boredom, teenage ennui

Pom Pom is purportedly the first Ariel Pink record credited to “only” Ariel himself without the Haunted Graffiti, but anyone in the know knows he’s been

I blame Thee Oh Sees for giving the nomenclature of garage rock a (somewhat) sullied name. There are so many releases released under that crusty umbrella

Between the closing of Walnut Hills, the exodus of the Deal sisters, and the death of Timmy Taylor, the most fruitful and creative period in Dayton music

Don’t be fooled. Though Gainesville, Florida’s Merchandise have warned us that they have “blown up” their former selves, version 1.0 of the band, and have

As far as the oblivious dilettantes who write the rock & roll history books and essay collections are concerned, Columbus music (and Ohio music too

There's a particular sense of nagging dread when one's favorite musicians cross over. Not “sell out” mind you—though on this night

The Stevens’ debut, The History of Hygiene, is a rare record in this day and age. It takes some digging to discover, and though the RIYL tags that have been

Until now, A Sunny Day in Glasgow was a band that dealt in fragments, ephemeral melodies concentrated upon for mere moments then tossed