Jill Andrews used to be in the band The Everybodyfields. They were a little known, but beloved country band from Johnson City, TN. Then they broke up. She’s gone solo and that’s a good thing for music fans. Andrews has perhaps one of the best voices in all of music. If not the best. Seriously. [...]
NPR has a first listen to the new record from The Antlers. “Burst Apart” is remarkably different from the bands first album, which was excellent but a bit of a downer. Two years after Hospice transformed The Antlers’ world, the Brooklyn band’s three affable, unassuming members faced the daunting task of producing a worthy sequel. [...]
Coming on the heels of Pitchfork’s 10.0 review, Slate’s Jonah Weiner also brings the high praise: My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy is the best album of 2010 and the best album of West’s career because, with it, he’s managed to channel his sense of injustice into his music more fully and thrillingly than ever before. [...]
What strikes me as interesting about Ryan Dombal’s 10.0 review of Kanye West’s My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy, isn’t that the taste-making website gave out a rare 10.0 (this is the first non-reissue album to get a 10.0 [and only 12th all-time, ALL-TIME!, to do so] since Wilco’s Yankee Hotel Foxtrot did so in 2002), but [...]
Today only at Amazon. The Providence, RI alt country band are one of the best going and this would be a solid purchase for the summer. The reviews have been pretty favorable, overall. From Paste: John McCauley III’s fiberglass croak couldn’t sound further from Neil Young’s whimper, but The Black Dirt Sessions is this band’s [...]
Portland’s Blitzen Trapper write really great, lo-fi slacker country jams. The kind of genre bending tunes that effortlessly combine the highs of Pavement and Johnny Cash. It’s no easy feat, but somehow Eric Early and company make it seem so damn easy. Their new record, Destroyer of the Void, comes out from Sub Pop Records [...]
It would take a lot for me to ever hate on Weezer frontman Rivers Cuomo, an indication how how excellent both The Blue Album and Pinkerton are. But as I was debating with a friend over the weekend, it feels like Rivers Cuomo has never grown up emotionally or been too emotionally invested in song writing [...]
Given how uneven the song quality was (not to mention the poor audio fidelity) on The Flaming Lips’s last LP, At War with the Mystics, I can honestly say I wasn’t looking forward to their new record Embroynic. And it’s not necessarily Pitchfork’s 9.0 review (out of 10) that has me excited, as much as [...]
Just the fact that Rhino Records chose to issue a 4-CD compilation on a band like Big Star says more about the label and their ability to reach out to new converts as well as old fans, like me, who will buy anything with “not previously released” or the “definitive remaster” sticker on the cover. [...]
A majority of albums (especially manufactured pop) fall into this pattern. Which is why I wish more bands put out two or three EPs a year or 7″s. There’s really no need for a band to release an LP in the current musical landscape. Just give me three to four really great songs at a [...]
