Album Reviews

[rating=7.00] It’s been four years since we’ve heard from New York City duo Cults, and things have shifted a bit since their last release, 2013’s Static. Specifically, they’ve leveled things out, with both members of the band taking equal part in the creation of their new album, Offering. While Madeline Follin often took a more […]

[rating=9.00] Having languished in the vault for some three decades is a sonic picture of consistency the group rarely conjured up. Past a certain point in their career, concerts by the Replacements became a crap-shoot as much for the band as its audience, the stage show equally likely to feature Paul Westerberg lying on his […]

[rating=7.00] The portentous tone of the title of the Church’s Man Woman Life Death Infinity is more than a little fitting and not just because it is the Australian band’s twenty-sixth studio album. With Ian Haug now in tow since 2013 to wield guitars in place of departed founding member Marty Wilson-Piper, the group soldiers […]

[rating=6.00] Not exactly fresh off the heels of their highly acclaimed 2013 release Essential Tremors (a triumph of headbanging southern rock and roll), J. Roddy Walston and the Business have certainly evolved with the much anticipated follow up, Destroyers of the Soft Life. It might seem crazy for a band that was so hyped to […]

[rating=9.00] In the canon of American music, one of the most overlooked yet influential figures is the songwriter and bandleader Sunny Ozuna. Proudly Mexican-American, Ozuna and his band the Sunliners (previously known as the sunglows) cut swamp pop and soul music that sounded like it could have come from Memphis or New Orleans but in […]

[rating=7.00] The supergroup era took full flight in the late ‘60s and early ‘70s when bands like Cream, Blind Faith and Crosby, Stills, Nash (and occasionally Young) showed the clear advantage of putting star names on the marquee for the purpose of drawing attention. That concept has never gone away, but these days it’s less […]

[rating=7.00] For a revered songwriter boasting a 50-year career and two spots in the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, David Crosby hasn’t previously had a lot of songs to crow about — at least ones he’s written. Crosby was initially best known as the rhythm guitar player in the Byrds who wrote the spellbindingly […]

[rating=5.00] If the last few albums are any indication. Primus is running out of steam, ideas, and energy. The freak rock outfits’ previous release was their interpretation of The Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory soundtrack which disappointed almost as much as the awful 2005 remake of the film. For this go around Claypool and company use a […]

[rating=9.00] Wake Up Now, the second solo album by one of Britain’s most promising up and coming artists, Nick Mulvey, promises to follow in the successful footsteps of its predecessor: Mulvey’s solo full-length debut and a 2014’s Mercury Prize nominee, First Mind. A stunning revelation, as measured by its ethereal elegance and profound and provocative […]

[rating=8.00] Protomartyr is a band anyone with a rock and roll backbone anyone can get behind. Formed by middle-aged music fans stewing in the ennui of working class Detroit, Protomartyr doesn’t hint towards being contrived or manicured to any degree. Rolling into their fourth album release, Relatives In Descent, the trademark Motor City grittiness can […]