Album Reviews

For the most part, The Go-Betweens have recorded a satisfying record that evokes palpable feelings and emotions yet becomes a bit uneven at the end. Despite that, the album is worth it for the first three tracks alone.

Unlike the Weezer-esque timbre of the first record, this sophomore set is in your face with very little over-the-top production; just straight rock and roll.

The Gang Of Four classics like

Denver Harbor is a new band on the punk-rock scene, and while the name suggests the band hails from a scenic area along the Denver coastline, in reality their roots lay in Houston.

If you can

Scarecrow Collection has put together a sampling of styles that runs the gamut.

In Your Honor won

A year after releasing their second album, Now Here is Nowhere, The Secret Machines have dropped a six song EP to hold us over until their much
anticipated follow up arrives. With one song off of Now Here is Nowhere,
an abridged version of

The most amazing thing about Sleater-Kinney is that they don

While Spookie Daly Pride appears to be a band teetering on the brink of either being a nationally recognized band or a staple of the Boston

If Garbage’s goal was to remain an unpredictable and enigmatic force with a cult following, then they have succeeded. While hard core Garbage lovers are salivating over the new record, Bleed Like Me probably isn

Like Bill Laswell, whose Material project served as an early inspiration, Dub Gabriel makes trance music in the most traditional sense.

The Breakfast have been painting aural gems on Midwest audiences for years, but their instrumental gifts aren

DJ Spooky is no stranger to experimentalism or pushing the boundaries
of genre. Drums of Death creates a successful fusion of diverse
styles, a risky proposition which lives up to his ambition to create a
“rhythm dialog, building bridges between styles.”

New York-based 33Hz quartet openly embraces the years, somewhere between 1979 and 1982, when disco shed its cheese and began its transformation into a full-bodied, danceable pop.

Considering their (our) Athens, Georgia roots I

With Lost and Safe, Paul de Jong and Nick Zammuto of The Books turn in another loopy-dreamy collection of melodic narratives made up of snippets of found noises, spoken-word samples and acoustic instrumentation that carries on the

Let’s get the obvious out of the way: yes, the half-Italian, half-icelandic Emiliana Torrini sounds like Bjork. Just without the squeaking. Or high pitched sounds there for the benefit of dogs and – yes! – music critics. But hold on a minute, there surely can be room for both singers in this ever crowded world where, like London buses, you wait ages for one and then, well, two come along jostling for passengers? And if that doesn’t mix your metaphors, then who knows what will?

X&Y is by no means perfect. The specter of U2 looms large throughout and Martin’s turn of phrase isn’t quite what it once was.

Musically, he