Pitchfork pays homage by bestowing a 10.0 on the record. I was always a Check Your Head guy, but Paul’s Boutique is pretty nasty. It was around these albums though, that I began to wonder if the Beastie Boys (as great as they are) would ever mix up their rhyming pattern or style. The answer [...]
I finally got my hands on Jenny Lewis’s new solo album Acid Tongue and it’s immediately clear that as a solo performer she is much more interesting than she is with her band Rilo Kiley. Mostly, I think because Lewis is interested in a southern musical stew throwing country, blues, gospel and rock into a [...]
Rolling Stone has posted its review of Guns N’Roses long gesticulating album Chinese Democracy. They give it four out of five stars. “The first Guns n’ Roses album of new, original songs since the first Bush administration is a great, audacious, unhinged and uncompromising hard-rock record. In other words, it sounds a lot like the [...]
Never got around to posting this when the site was down for all of last week. Can you tell I’m still bitter about it? Anyway, this is the latest brain-f*ck from Charlie Kaufman. I’ve been digging Wired’s Kaufmenesque profile about the making of the magazine profile. Still, this one looks like it could be great. [...]
Initially riding to the mainstream on the wave that carried fellow alternative country acts like Wilco and Bright Eyes to the public?s ears, My Morning Jacket have, through their past couple albums, deftly eluded sonic type casting. Front man and chief songwriter Jim James is amusingly agile at connecting weird imagery to lyrical snippets meditating [...]
