I've been a fan of Vampire Weekend for years, which is not the easiest thing to admit because these guys are basically the hipster scapegoats for irrelevance. Is it because they wear new sweaters instead of vintage ones? Is it because boating people think they are...
While No Age's last album was certainly a guilty pleasure, it just doesn't hold a candle to the quality of their new album, An Object. Sure, the band's third album was good, there's no arguing that, but his time No Age has ascended to a whole new level...
If The Stooges proved nothing else during their all-too-brief first run (before Iggy changed his surname to “Pop” and James Williamson joined in on guitar), they proved that “rock n' roll” was not synonymous with “rocket...
Those familiar with Palms and specifically who is in the band will not be surprised by what they hear on the band's self0titled debut at all. Such a statement might sound condemning but, in fact, it is intended to be an endorsement of the music; most times,...
While his name might not be the single most memorable in music at first (Dave Tough was also the name of a well-known jazz drummer in Dixieland and Swing era of the Thirties and Forties), it would be hard to overlook Dave Tough's voice after hearing this...
Raw Geronimo play prog-structured music with the ferocity of punk rock. They combine tribal rhythms, guitars which alternate between aggressive and ethereal, and Laena Geronimo's no-limits voice to create a sound that hits hard and lingers long. After playing in a...
To say that Nirvana's third and ultimately final studio album In Utero was 1993's most polarizing record would be the understatement of a decade. The unadorned sonic rawness of Steve Albini's recording laid bare every primal nuance of the most...
Remember when punk rock didn't need to have a social message or studious comment in it to be great, it just needed to be loud, fast and either about a girl or about getting in trouble? That was great, that was fun and, if you grew up in Canada in the late Nineties,...
Is it my lack of knowledge on the Flaming Lips or has the band's style changed a lot since Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots? Perhaps it's because, again, I'm arriving at The Terror so late to the game and my musical life right now consists mostly of catching...
It's hard to easily define what Washed Out's third album, Paracosm, is. On one hand, there are moments on the record which very closely resemble the spacey, campy, dopey folk that the Flaming Lips have been known to indulge in, but it's noticeably more...