[rating=7.00] Thirty years ago, while Aimee Mann was on the cusp of the biggest hit of her mighty career as a member of Til Tuesday with “Voices Carry”, Ted Leo
[rating=8.00] I saved Latin! What did you ever do?” utters Rushmore’s quirky protagonist Max Fischer during a climactic moment of the excellent 1998 film. And, while the question was exclaimed
[rating=7.00] Cemetery Dares, the debut album by Brooklyn-by-way-of-St. Louis band Modern Rivals, is an ambitious mix of sun-drenched psychedelic pop. At times basking in the warm reverb and at other times
[rating=9.00] Five albums and over a decade into her career, singer-songwriter Mirah is getting back to her roots, literally. Her new record Changing Light covers a lot of earthly ground,
If the lyric from “Oysters” of “working my way back to me again” was a goal and creative impetus for this project, one can say without reservation—imperfect as the record is—that Tori Amos has succeeded.
[rating=9.00] Once again The Black Keys duo of Patrick Carney and Dan Auerbach have teamed with producer Brian Burton (aka Danger Mouse) to craft an album of textured rhythms mixed
[rating=6.00] Considering that the latest album by Sarah McLachlan, the queen of the mournful piano ballad, is largely inspired by personal tragedy, one might expect an unrelenting deluge of misery.
Lykke Li’s new album “I Never Learn” manages the contradictory feat of lingering in your mind without sonically overstaying its welcome.
[rating=8.00] Atmosphere’s new record Southsiders is a statement in slowing things down. At this point in their nearly 20-year career, Slug’s got a family and it seems that he and
[rating=7.00] For two weeks last year, Merrill Garbus, the leader of the duo tUnE-yArDs, studied dancing and drumming in Haiti “to situate myself in a non-western musical tradition,” as she
