Category: Reviews

Stephen Ulrich’s Music from “This American Life”, a solo debut of sorts, takes the late-night, urban noir tendencies of the band Ulrich fronts, Big Lazy,…

Among his many other talents, Jeff Mangum is a brilliant editor. The Neutral Milk Hotel front-man rather famously wrote many of his songs in…

The music of Loscil, the nom-de-guerre of the ingenious, Vancouver-based sound sculptor Scott Morgan, tends to inspire verbose prose. On Loscil’s new LP with…

Predator Nominate, a newly released EP of unreleased music from name-drop-ready ‘90s underground outfit Brainiac, is incomplete but, nevertheless, illuminating. Released by the band’s…

Reunions are dicey ordeals. Even in the best of circumstances – and those, increasingly, are not the majority of them – band egos clash,…

The average song by Woodstock, New York-based rock revivalists the Bobby Lees barely, only occasionally, breaks the two-minute mark. It’s part of the band’s charm, its…

“Ron Anderson is the best kind of madman. There’s just no other way to say it.” So I wrote for The Brooklyn Rail way…

Listeners will enjoy Keeping You, the new LP of piano-led pop ballads from Julia Mark, but the reasons lead to a cloudiness of thought. As…

How Do You Burn?, the new and much anticipated, third post-reunion LP from The Afghan Whigs, will divide longtime fans and listeners into two…