ALBUM REVIEW: ‘ALWAYS ASCENDING’ BY FRANZ FERDINAND
“Float On” by Modest Mouse and “Take Me Out” by Franz Ferdinand could not be more different, but it was all of 14 years…
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NEW WALKING PAPERS ALBUM ‘WP2’ IS A POWERFUL DOSE OF PURE ROCK
Good rock albums make you want to get in the car and drive. Really good ones make you feel like you could drive your…
TUNE-YARDS’ NEW ALBUM: TOUGH CULTURAL QUESTIONS SET TO DANCE-INDUCING BEATS
The band who once boldly posed questions like “What’s a boy to do if he’ll never be a gangsta?” and “What’s a girl to…
KING GIZZARD’S 4TH ALBUM THIS YEAR ‘POLYGONDWANALAND’ IS SICK & 100% FREE
If you’ve been buckled into the 5-album ride that King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard have been taking us on this year, you probably…
ALBUM REVIEW: ‘MOTEL CITY HONEY’ BY LEVEE DRIVERS
On Motel City Honey, Levee Drivers show their teeth by dragging every rough edge and feral strain within their music from the outskirts to…
PRIMUS’ NEW ALBUM IS A BASS-POWERED TRIP ABOUT RAINBOW-EATING GOBLINS
Before you even get to the goblins, it’s special for one big reason: The Desaturating Seven is the first studio album of original material…
ALBUM REVIEW: ‘DEADBEAT GRAFFITI’ BY BLACK PISTOL FIRE
If you have yet to hear of the Canadian duo Black Pistol Fire, that’s not likely to last long. Guitarist/vocalist Kevin McKeown and drummer…
THROUGH BEING COOL: LCD SOUNDSYTEM’S AMERICAN DREAM
Part of the responsibility of being a fan of LCD Soundsystem is having some dialogue with coolness. Whether Murphy & Co. accepted the mantle…
ALBUM REVIEW: ‘SHILPA RAY STARS AS DOOR GIRL’ BY SHILPA RAY
The idea of what an album cover could and should be has undergone countless revisions since the pre rock and roll days of perfectly…
ALBUM REVIEW – ‘SLEEP WELL BEAST’ BY THE NATIONAL
By 1967, music pretty much sounded the way music was going to sound. Before then, music had slowly but surely transformed from a thing…