It’s been less than a year since The Most Serene Republic released their debut album and in that short time, as Population illustrates, their sound and the scope of the band’s vision has grown at a nothing less than geometric rate. Now a celestially...
Editor's note – The review of Built to Spill is for Friday, 9/21 at the Henry Fonda Theater in Hollywood. The accompanying photos are from the following night's performance at the Independent in San Francisco. I had this review half-written before I...
If An End Has a Start is Editors’ maxim, it is a confusing one for critics and fans alike. Booked like wildfire for the first of the U.K. sensation’s forthcoming trips to the U.S., they have been touring on the East coast all September, and are coming to...
Jose Gonzalez, the incredibly talented singer-songwriter out of Sweden, will soon be releasing his much-anticipated sophomore effort, In Our Nature on September 25. There are already reviews trickling in and it seems that Gonzalez has come a long way from his O.C....
If VH1’s Behind The Music ever decides to branch out from the internal squabbles, trivial psychodramas and minor torments that are de rigueur in most of the episodes they air and start tackling stories about true conflict in music and the bands that make it, the...
News came today that the US release date for PJ Harvey’s much-anticipated follow-up to 2004’s Uh Huh Her, White Chalk, has been bumped back from a September 25 release to an October 2 release. However, this is only the case in the United States as the album...
I remember when we persuaded an insider man to sneak me and couple of girlfriends into a college cafeteria-cum-coffee-shop venue back when I still believed higher education was the ultimate path to enlightenment. The show featured some scruffy Scotsmen, who were...
It's an odd feeling these days, to stand in the audience of a show at 27 and be part of the younger half of the audience. The high school and college kids—the ones still searching for their identities—are usually the first adopters of new music, and so...
I can’t quite put my finger on it—I don’t know exactly what it is—but for some reason, growing up soaking up Southern Californian sun rays made me very, very musically stubborn; and if labels mean anything to you, I sneered against anything...
The title of this article may seem like old news, LCD Sounsystem’s 45:33 has been out nearly for six months on iTunes; however, it will just now be released for the first time on CD and double-vinyl on November 13. What a great example of the current state of the...