Album Reviews

Fresh sounds, steady tempos, and relatively heavier electronics highlight this latest release from Seattle’s Minus the Bear. Seemingly...

It’s been five years since the last album proper from Canada’s don’t-call-’em-a-supergroup Broken Social Scene, though not without...

Just in time for summer, The Hold Steady returns with another set of hyper-literate bar rock. It will...

A brief contextual introduction for the uninitiated: the New Pornographers are an indie “supergroup”, led by Carl “A.C.”...

Juan Maclean’s last album was an exhilarating exploration of futurism-via-history, a record that sounded undeniably modern but informed...

When you get reminded of the damage listening to loud music can do to your ears, you are...

You can’t be a real garage rocker if you’re not standing at the center of a confusing maze...

It’s hardly unusual for a record label to promote new bands and artists by proclaiming their songwriting genius;...

Who knew that northern soul and rap colliding on an album could sound so, so good? With his...