Remix albums. Usually, the only people who buy them are obsessive about the band in question to the point of knowing the bass player’s pet rabbit’s middle name, and are going to love whatever drivel they stick an extra trumpet loop on. Mostly, they’re little more than the bits that...
Opener and first single Automatic suggests a strange copycat of so many other new, young, indie bands. But the assumption melts away as soon as the blinding chorus hits. Jagged and edgy guitars are re...
The bedroom side project of Danny Seim (Menomena drummer). Listening to Lackthereof, Danny's fractured art-pop sensibility is a big part of the sound of his more well-known band. Of the nine hard ...
If Vessels were a work of fiction, they’d have no choice but to opt for the Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde template. Cowering in the corner like an introspective cousin of ‘Spirit of Eden’-...
The Donkeys are more than simply four California beach bums who love to surf, drink beer, and jam as the sun sets over the Pacific. If their back story contains those top-down cars and suntanned utopi...
Since the last deeply felt, more song-driven opus Paradise, an overlooked sleeper, Rob Birch and Nick Hallam have been hanging out with Digitalism, and that - coupled with a renewed interest in the mu...
The album is not quite the masterpiece it is occasionally framed as (it was huge in parts of Europe, where just after it came out you couldn't escape the image of its cover), but it is a very good...
There was a time in the not-too-distant past when Hollywood Records was one of the biggest jokes in the record industry – aside from lucking into the Queen catalog immediately prior to the band&...
The monsters of late ‘70s rock have gotten their asses positively kicked by revisionist history. In some cases, it was a matter of long-delayed justice (let’s face it: Styx and REO Speedwa...
When Bon Jovi scored a country hit with “Who Says You Can’t Go Home,” featuring vocals from Sugarland’s Jennifer Nettles, there was a whole lot of head-shaking among music fans...