Album Review
By
Dryw Keltz
February 27th, 2009
The lovable eccentric, Robyn Hitchcock, returns with another album backed by The Venus 3, featuring members of R.E.M.
Vinyl Vault
By
JBev
February 26th, 2009
Released at the end of 1967, Songs Of Leonard Cohen had very little to do with the prevailing psychedelia of the moment, but it stamped Cohen as a visionary songwriter.
The Daily Deep Cut
By
Douglas Newman
February 25th, 2009
Stereolab is really quite a remarkable group, or Groop as they refer to themselves. The band has amassed a robust and amazingly consistent catalog over the past sixteen years.
X is the Y of Z
By
Mark Peters
February 25th, 2009
In her time, Britney Spears has had—as Homer Simpson put it—more than her share of “the terrifying lows, the dizzying highs, the creamy middles”. But she has never been off the radar, and her name is a handy reference point for planet-watchers, meerkat mavens, and everyone in between:
Album Review
By
Brian Castleberry
February 24th, 2009
It’s a little shocking when one of your favorite bands makes a sudden change in their sound. Sometimes it’s a radical stylistic development. Other times it’s the addition of new instrumentation. And then there are the changes that really warrant a band changing its name, like when the progressive jazz trio The Bad Plus added a vocalist to their beloved instrumental sound.
Album Review
By
JBev
February 22nd, 2009
Elvis Perkins In Dearland finds enough new ground to feel like a fresh start without abandoning the idiosyncratic yet profound songwriting talents that made his debut, Ash Wednesday, such a nice surprise.
Brass Trax
By
Rick Sawyer
February 20th, 2009
The Monks stripped rock and roll to its rhythmic essence and created a joyful, noisy masterpiece of an album that was decades ahead of its time.
The Daily Deep Cut
By
Douglas Newman
February 19th, 2009
“Kick out the jams, motherfucker!” I remember hearing those first lines spewed from the second track of MC5’s masterpiece when I was 14 years old and thinking to myself that something great was going on in my head. I would never be the same again.
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