PopMatters Associate Music Editor
Matthew Fiander is a music critic for PopMatters and Prefix Magazine. He also writes fiction and his work has appeared in The Yalobusha Review. He received his M.F.A. in Creative Writing from UNC-Greensboro and currently teaches writing and literature at High Point University in High Point, NC. You can follow him on Twitter at @mattfiander.
Features
Monday, March 18 2013
Now Hear This!: Plates of Cake - 'Teenage Evil' (album premiere)
PopMatters is excited to premiere Teenage Evil, the second full-length by up-and-comers Plates of Cake.
Thursday, December 13 2012
The Top 10 Overlooked Albums of 2012
With the long arm of the internet putting any and all music at our fingertips, it should make for a glut of bands getting their due attention. But what really happens is so many great acts get hidden in plain view.
Tuesday, July 31 2012
Modern Life Is Repetition: Blur's Spare Lexicon and Endless Atmosphere
Blur sang of daily routines in an attempt to crack them, to chisel away at them until they broke. Lyrics repeated often and guitars swirls, but while they spun furiously in place, the band still managed to move forward, and Blur 21: The Box documents their progress with a staggering breadth.
Friday, June 24 2011
The Piano Bares Its Teeth: Reversals and Redemption in Nick Cave's '90s Albums
Through a series of reversals -- of sound, of focus, of theme, of our expectations -- Nick Cave, ever the demonic circus hawker, turned his sights onto something different as he emerged from the '90s: Himself.
Thursday, December 9 2010
The Best Female Artists of 2010
While the men were showing us their dark and beautiful fantasies, or pulling us into their high brooding violet, the women were absolutely taking over 2010.
The Best Singer-Songwriter Albums of 2009 [9.Dec.09]
Bowerbirds [Raleigh, NC] [1.Aug.07]
Scud Mountain Boys: How to Burn a Silo [11.Jun.07]
Reviews
Tuesday, May 14 2013
Marquis De Tren & Bonny Billy: Solemns
Solemns' virtue comes in its unassuming nature, in how it feels like a glimpse into an inspired moment between musical friends.
Monday, May 13 2013
Human Eye: 4: Into Unknown
Human Eye has been slowly building their name, and this record is their loudest shout for us to take them seriously. We should listen.
Thursday, May 9 2013
Snapper: Snapper EP
Snapper's sound -- less jangly than the Clean, more fierce than the 3Ds -- is both of a piece with the Flying Nun aesthetic and utterly singular.
Tuesday, May 7 2013
Ola Podrida: Ghosts Go Blind
Ghosts Go Blind succeeds because it manages to pull tension out of spacious textures. It never unleashes a rock fury and often deals in isolated space, but it never sounds slack or insular.
Friday, May 3 2013
David Bowie: Aladdin Sane (40th Anniversary Edition)
Aladdin Sane may be the best example of one of Bowie's central themes: the artifice not as something to break through, not as an impediment on the way to the real, but the artifice as its own sort of realness.
Guided By Voices: English Little League [2.May.13]
Akron/Family: Sub Verses [30.Apr.13]
Futurebirds: Baba Yaga [26.Apr.13]
Hiss Golden Messenger: Haw [26.Apr.13]
Thee Oh Sees: Floating Coffin [25.Apr.13]
Ancient History: Tracks [24.Apr.13]
Mia Dyson: The Moment [22.Apr.13]
David Grubbs: The Plain Where the Palace Stood [19.Apr.13]
Gray Young: Bonfire [16.Apr.13]
The Flaming Lips: The Terror [15.Apr.13]
Dorado: Anger, Hunger, Love & the Fear of Death [12.Apr.13]
White Fence: Cyclops Reap [10.Apr.13]
Herbcraft: The Astral Body Electric [8.Apr.13]
Old Man Markley: Down Side Up [3.Apr.13]
Bleached: Ride Your Heart [3.Apr.13]
The Woolen Men: The Woolen Men [2.Apr.13]
Lee Hazlewood: Trouble Is a Lonesome Town [29.Mar.13]
Thalia Zedek Band: Via [27.Mar.13]
The Night Marchers: Allez Allez [27.Mar.13]
Julian Lynch: Lines [26.Mar.13]
Marnie Stern: The Chronicles of Marnia [21.Mar.13]
Phosphorescent: Muchacho [18.Mar.13]
Czarface: Czarface [15.Mar.13]
Cy Dune: No Recognize [7.Mar.13]
Norwegian Arms: Wolf Like a Stray Dog [7.Mar.13]
The Kingsbury Manx: Bronze Age [7.Mar.13]
Mount Moriah: Miracle Temple [1.Mar.13]
Airstrip: Willing [27.Feb.13]
The Cheatahs: Extended Plays [27.Feb.13]
Panda Riot: Northern Automatic Music [21.Feb.13]
The Black Twig Pickers: Rough Carpenters [20.Feb.13]
Dan Friel: Total Folklore [20.Feb.13]
Pissed Jeans: Honeys [11.Feb.13]
Waumiss: Subtle For Flames [7.Feb.13]
Frightened Rabbit: Pedestrian Verse [7.Feb.13]
My Bloody Valentine: m b v [6.Feb.13]
Lost Animal: Ex Tropical [28.Jan.13]
The Human Hearts: Another [25.Jan.13]
Mountains: Centralia [24.Jan.13]
Mikael Jorgensen & Greg O'Keeffe: ARMZ [22.Jan.13]
Camper Van Beethoven: La Costa Perdida [21.Jan.13]
Ghetto Brothers: Power Fuerza [21.Jan.13]
Holopaw: Academy Songs Volume One [18.Jan.13]
Colin Stetson & Mats Gustafsson: Stones [17.Jan.13]
Paul Corley: Disquiet [16.Jan.13]
Bert Jansch: Heartbreak [14.Jan.13]
Wooden Wand: Blood Oaths of the New Blues [10.Jan.13]
Jacob Morris: Moths [10.Jan.13]
Nathan Bowles: A Bottle, A Buckeye [9.Jan.13]
Dropkick Murphys: Signed and Sealed in Blood [8.Jan.13]
Bear Colony: Soft Eyes [7.Jan.13]
Clover: Clover / Fourty-Niner [11.Dec.12]
Mean Creek: Youth Companion [7.Dec.12]
Big Dipper: Crashes on the Platinum Planet [5.Dec.12]
Social Studies: Developer [4.Dec.12]
Scott Walker: Bish Bosch [3.Dec.12]
The Beach at Galle Road: Joanna Luloff [27.Nov.12]
Chris Cohen: Overgrown Path [27.Nov.12]
The Soft Pack: Strapped [27.Nov.12]
Ahleuchatistas: Heads Full of Poison [20.Nov.12]
Cult of Youth: Love Will Prevail [15.Nov.12]
Videotape: This Is Disconnect [5.Nov.12]
Generationals: Lucky Numbers EP [1.Nov.12]
The Luyas: Animator [1.Nov.12]
Meek Mill: Dreams and Nightmares [31.Oct.12]
Peter Broderick: These Walls of Mine [25.Oct.12]
GRMLN: Explore EP [24.Oct.12]
Titus Andronicus: Local Business [22.Oct.12]
Wilkinson Blades: 4:00AM [19.Oct.12]
Pinback: Information Retrieved [18.Oct.12]
The Everymen: New Jersey Hardcore [15.Oct.12]
Royal Trux: Accelerator [12.Oct.12]
Morning Glory: Poets Were My Heroes [11.Oct.12]
Empress Hotel: Heavy Halo [10.Oct.12]
Poor Moon: Poor Moon [8.Oct.12]
Sara Jackson-Holman: Cardiology [8.Oct.12]
Trummors: Over and Around the Clove [5.Oct.12]
The Last Names: Wilderness [3.Oct.12]
Mark Eitzel: Don't Be a Stranger [2.Oct.12]
Ape School: Junior Violence [1.Oct.12]
Will Johnson: Scorpion [18.Sep.12]
Simon Joyner: Ghosts [18.Sep.12]
Teenage Bottlerocket: Freak Out! [11.Sep.12]
Bob Dylan: Tempest [10.Sep.12]
Cat Power: Sun [5.Sep.12]
Six Organs of Admittance: Ascent [23.Aug.12]
Don Cherry: Organic Music Society [15.Aug.12]
The Frank Wright Quartet: Blues for Albert Ayler [10.Aug.12]
Joey Cape & Tony Sly: Acoustic Volume 2 [10.Aug.12]
The Black Swans: Occasion for Song [6.Aug.12]
Various Artists: Country Funk 1969-1975 [3.Aug.12]
Rodriguez: Searching for Sugar Man OST [2.Aug.12]
Parallel Thought: The Art of Sound [1.Aug.12]
Jeans Wilder: Totally [1.Aug.12]
Todd Tobias: Medicine Show [26.Jul.12]
The Germs: (GI) [25.Jul.12]
The History of Pan!c: Fight! Fight! Fight! [25.Jul.12]
Young Moon: Navigated Like the Swan [24.Jul.12]
Advance Base: A Shut-In's Prayer [19.Jul.12]
Nas: Life Is Good (take one) [17.Jul.12]
Piano Magic: Life Has Not Finished With Me Yet [13.Jul.12]
Astrid: High Blues [27.Jun.12]
Ty Segall Band: Slaughterhouse [26.Jun.12]
Los Miticos Del Ritmo: Los Miticos Del Ritmo [26.Jun.12]
Can: The Lost Tapes [22.Jun.12]
Penelope Houston: On Market Street [22.Jun.12]
Wymond Miles: Under the Pale Moon [19.Jun.12]
The Hollyhocks: Understories [19.Jun.12]
Through the Sparks: Alimalibu [18.Jun.12]
Woodsy Pride: Live at the All Hands House [14.Jun.12]
The Young: Dub Egg [11.Jun.12]
Emily Jane White: Ode to Sentience [11.Jun.12]
Crocodiles: Endless Flowers [8.Jun.12]
Exitmusic: Passage [6.Jun.12]
Japandroids: Celebration Rock [5.Jun.12]
Sun Kil Moon: Among the Leaves [1.Jun.12]
Marissa Nadler: The Sister [31.May.12]
The Walkmen: Heaven [29.May.12]
Shannon Stephens: Pull It Together [24.May.12]
Craft Spells: Gallery [24.May.12]
Hope For Agoldensummer: Life Inside the Body [21.May.12]
Stephane Wrembel: Origins [15.May.12]
OFF!: OFF! [10.May.12]
Little Hurricane: homewrecker [9.May.12]
Mount Eerie: Distorted Cymbals [2.May.12]
Frankie Rose: Interstellar [24.Apr.12]
Brendan Benson: What Kind of World [23.Apr.12]
Lambchop: Democracy EP [19.Apr.12]
Great Lake Swimmers: New Wild Everywhere [11.Apr.12]
Bad Weather California: Sunkissed [9.Apr.12]
Roommates: Winnifred EP [6.Apr.12]
Windy & Carl: We Will Always Be [6.Apr.12]
Archer Black: Forgiveness Is a Weapon [5.Apr.12]
Bend Sinister: On My Mind [4.Apr.12]
Caltrop: One Million Years and Eight Minutes [3.Apr.12]
The Zambonis: Five Minute Major (in D Minor) [30.Mar.12]
Wave Sleep Wave: Wave Sleep Wave [28.Mar.12]
Crystal Bright & the Silver Hands [27.Mar.12]
Mike Wexler: Dispossession [20.Mar.12]
The Shins: Port of Morrow [19.Mar.12]
backwords: By the Neck [16.Mar.12]
Royal Baths: Better Luck Next Life [14.Mar.12]
Alaska in Winter: Suicide Prevention Hotline [13.Mar.12]
The Aerial Maps: Sunset Park [12.Mar.12]
Bill Fox: One Thought Revealed [8.Mar.12]
Circus Devils: Capsized! [8.Mar.12]
Plants and Animals: The End of That [7.Mar.12]
Andrew Bird: Break It Yourself [6.Mar.12]
Woodpigeon: For Paolo [5.Mar.12]
Baba Maraire: Wona Baba Maraire [24.Feb.12]
Gross Magic: Teen Jamz [10.Feb.12]
Sharon Van Etten: Tramp [9.Feb.12]
The Renderers: A Rocket Into Nothing [3.Feb.12]
Cardinal: Hymns [26.Jan.12]
Brandon Schott: 13 Satellites [25.Jan.12]
Craig Finn: Clear Heart Full Eyes [23.Jan.12]
Black Truth Rhythm Band: Ifetayo [23.Jan.12]
Bobby Charles: Bobby Charles (Deluxe Edition) [20.Jan.12]
Guided By Voices: Let's Go Eat the Factory [12.Jan.12]
Doomtree: No Kings [10.Jan.12]
Noxious Foxes: Legs [10.Jan.12]
St. Lucia: St. Lucia EP [5.Jan.12]
Low Roar: Low Roar [4.Jan.12]
Banner Pilot: Heart Beats Pacific [13.Dec.11]
Carter Tanton: Freeclouds [5.Dec.11]
The Jigsaw Seen: Winterland [30.Nov.11]
Socalled: Sleepover [29.Nov.11]
The Rolling Stones: Some Girls (Deluxe Edition) [23.Nov.11]
Wooden Wand & the Briarwood Virgins: Briarwood [22.Nov.11]
The Dave Brubeck Quartet: Their Last Time Out [17.Nov.11]
Deleted Waveform Gatherings: Pretty Escape [14.Nov.11]
Downpilot: New Great Lakes [10.Nov.11]
Laura Veirs: Tumble Bee [8.Nov.11]
Jonathan Wilson: Gentle Spirit [3.Nov.11]
Rob Crow: He Thinks He's People [2.Nov.11]
John Prine: The Singing Mailman Delivers [1.Nov.11]
Tom Waits: Bad As Me [26.Oct.11]
MonoMono / Joni Haastrup: Give the Beggar a Chance / Dawn of Awareness / Wake Up Your Mind [25.Oct.11]
Tony Sly: Sad Bear [21.Oct.11]
Gauntlet Hair: Gauntlet Hair [20.Oct.11]
Brown Shoe: The Gift Horse [18.Oct.11]
Mild Mannered: Believeland [7.Oct.11]
Gold Beach: Habibti [6.Oct.11]
DMZ/Lyres [4.Oct.11]
Nirvana: Nevermind (Deluxe Edition) [30.Sep.11]
Wesley Wolfe: Cynics Need Love Too [29.Sep.11]
Youth Lagoon: The Year of Hibernation [27.Sep.11]
Wilco: The Whole Love [26.Sep.11]
Harold Budd: In the Mist [26.Sep.11]
Social Climbers: Social Climbers [22.Sep.11]
Meg Baird: Seasons on Earth [20.Sep.11]
Megafaun: Megafaun [19.Sep.11]
Correatown: Pleides [19.Sep.11]
Glenn Jones: The Wanting [16.Sep.11]
The Besnard Lakes: You Lived in the City [16.Sep.11]
Amen Dunes: Through Donkey Jaw [16.Sep.11]
Blind Pilot: We Are the Tide [15.Sep.11]
Male Bonding: Endless Now [30.Aug.11]
Fonda: Better Days [29.Aug.11]
Sleeping Bag: Sleeping Bag [24.Aug.11]
Sundress: Sundress EP [23.Aug.11]
Arrica Rose & the ...'s: Let Alone Sea [22.Aug.11]
Carol Kleyn: Love Has Made Me Stronger [18.Aug.11]
Remi Kabaka: Black Goddess [17.Aug.11]
Tunnels: The Blackout [16.Aug.11]
Braid: Closer to Closed EP [16.Aug.11]
Against Me!: White Crosses / Black Crosses [11.Aug.11]
Marissa Nadler: Marissa Nadler [10.Aug.11]
Molly Sweeney: Gold Rings and Fur Pelts [8.Aug.11]
Ellwood: Lost in Transition [5.Aug.11]
Richard Buckner: Our Blood [2.Aug.11]
Light Asylum: In Tension [2.Aug.11]
Fruit Bats: Tripper [1.Aug.11]
Beware of Safety: Leaves/Scars [28.Jul.11]
Kestrels: The Solipsist [27.Jul.11]
Christine Owman: Throwing Knives [25.Jul.11]
Roadside Graves: We Can Take Care of Ourselves [22.Jul.11]
Psychobuildings: Psychobuildings [21.Jul.11]
Mock Orange: Disguised As Ghosts [19.Jul.11]
Graham Repulski: Into an Animal Together [18.Jul.11]
Point Juncture, WA: Handsome Orders [15.Jul.11]
Grayson Gilmour: No Constellation [7.Jul.11]
Kids on a Crime Spree: We Love You So Bad [5.Jul.11]
Shabazz Palaces: Black Up [28.Jun.11]
Caitlin Rose: Own Side Now [27.Jun.11]
Sarandon: Age of Reason [27.Jun.11]
Peter Tosh: Legalize It / Equal Rights [24.Jun.11]
The Computers: This Is the Computers [24.Jun.11]
Gardens: Gardens [23.Jun.11]
Mount Moriah: Mount Moriah [22.Jun.11]
Alina Simone: Make Your Own Danger [21.Jun.11]
Little Silver: The Stolen Souvenir [16.Jun.11]
Neil Young: A Treasure [13.Jun.11]
Darlings: Warma [6.Jun.11]
Seapony: Go With Me [1.Jun.11]
Various Artists: Nigeria 70: Sweet Times [31.May.11]
The Head and the Heart: The Head and the Heart [19.May.11]
Ahleuchatistas: Location Location [18.May.11]
Pour Habit: Got Your Back [18.May.11]
Zachary Cale: Noise of Welcome [17.May.11]
The Sea and Cake: The Moonlight Butterfly [11.May.11]
Swingin' Utters: Here, Under Protest [11.May.11]
Okkervil River: I Am Very Far [9.May.11]
Fleet Foxes: Helpnessness Blues [3.May.11]
Cass McCombs: Wit's End [2.May.11]
David Kilgour & the Heavy Eights [28.Apr.11]
Times New Viking: Dancer Equired [27.Apr.11]
Little Scream: The Golden Record [19.Apr.11]
Columboid: We Were One [15.Apr.11]
Americans in France: Crawling [14.Apr.11]
Scorch Trio: Melaza [12.Apr.11]
Smoking Popes: This Is Only a Test [11.Apr.11]
Junk Culture: Summer Friends [11.Apr.11]
Various Artists: Cartagena! [8.Apr.11]
Shedding: Tear in the Sun [7.Apr.11]
Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers: Ugetsu [6.Apr.11]
All Tiny Creatures: Harbors [1.Apr.11]
Kontakte: We Move Through Negative Spaces [30.Mar.11]
Gary Higgins: A Dream a While Back [28.Mar.11]
Various Artists: Those Shocking, Shaking Days [18.Mar.11]
J Mascis: Several Shades of Why [14.Mar.11]
Wye Oak: Civilian [11.Mar.11]
The Beets: Stay Home [10.Mar.11]
Kurt Vile: Smoke Ring for My Halo [9.Mar.11]
Michael Chapman: Fully Qualified Survivor [9.Mar.11]
Awol One & Factor: The Landmark [3.Mar.11]
The Babies: The Babies [23.Feb.11]
The Cave Singers: No Witch [22.Feb.11]
Lonnie Walker: These Times Old Times [21.Feb.11]
Scott Tuma: Dandelion [18.Feb.11]
Delay Trees: Delay Trees [17.Feb.11]
Mogwai: Hardcore Will Never Die, But You Will [16.Feb.11]
Dom: Sun Bronzed Greek Gods [15.Feb.11]
Miles Davis: Bitches Brew Live [10.Feb.11]
Jessica Lea Mayfield: Tell Me [9.Feb.11]
John Vanderslice: White Wilderness [3.Feb.11]
The Brother Kite: Isolation [1.Feb.11]
Apex Manor: The Year of Magical Drinking [31.Jan.11]
Wanda Jackson: The Party Ain't Over [28.Jan.11]
Soft Circle: Shore Obsessed [28.Jan.11]
Gary War: Police Water EP [27.Jan.11]
Lia Ices: Grown Unknown [26.Jan.11]
Destroyer: Kaputt [25.Jan.11]
Plates of Cake: Plates of Cake [25.Jan.11]
The Get Up Kids: There Are Rules [24.Jan.11]
Transportation: Amusement Park [24.Jan.11]
Woodsy Pride: Woodsy Pride [21.Jan.11]
Graham Repulski: Electric Worrier [20.Jan.11]
Robert Pollard: Space City Kicks [19.Jan.11]
Smoke or Fire: The Speakeasy [19.Jan.11]
Fergus & Geronimo: Unlearn [18.Jan.11]
Wild Wild Geese: Sorry, Earth [6.Jan.11]
The Capstan Shafts: Revelation Skirts [3.Jan.11]
The Jigsaw Seen: Bananas Foster [1.Dec.10]
Miles Davis featuring Sonny Rollins: Dig [29.Nov.10]
Kanye West: My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy [24.Nov.10]
Spider John Koerner: March 1963 [23.Nov.10]
Banner Pilot: Resignation Day [19.Nov.10]
The 1900s: Return of the Century [18.Nov.10]
Bruce Springsteen: The Promise [17.Nov.10]
Candy Claws: Hidden Lands [17.Nov.10]
Sun Araw: Off Duty + Boat Trip [16.Nov.10]
Philip Jeck: An Ark for the Listener [15.Nov.10]
Winterpills: Tuxedo of Ashes [11.Nov.10]
The Good Ones: Kigali Y' Izahabu [11.Nov.10]
Filthybird: Songs for Other People [10.Nov.10]
Goldmund: Famous Places [3.Nov.10]
Wooden Wand: Death Seat [28.Oct.10]
Magnetic Island: Out at Sea [26.Oct.10]
A Classic Education: Hey There Stranger [20.Oct.10]
Les Shelleys: Les Shelleys [19.Oct.10]
Suuns: Zeroes QC [15.Oct.10]
Sharon Van Etten: epic [14.Oct.10]
Wolf People: Steeple [13.Oct.10]
Half-Handed Cloud: Stowaways [11.Oct.10]
Busses: Busses [10.Oct.10]
The Corin Tucker Band: 1,000 Years [5.Oct.10]
Titles: Dirt Bell [3.Oct.10]
Deerhunter: Halcyon Digest [28.Sep.10]
Sunglasses: Sunglasses EP [27.Sep.10]
The Real McKenzies: Shine Not Burn [23.Sep.10]
Les Savy Fav: Root for Ruin [22.Sep.10]
Grinderman: Grinderman 2 [21.Sep.10]
Little Beirut: Fear of Heaven [20.Sep.10]
Dominant Legs: Young at Love and Life EP [16.Sep.10]
Rose's Pawn Shop: Dancing on the Gallows [15.Sep.10]
Junip: Fields [14.Sep.10]
The Thermals: Personal Life [9.Sep.10]
Wild Moccasins: Skin Collision Past [8.Sep.10]
Sparrow and the Workshop: Sleight of Hand EP [7.Sep.10]
Effi Briest: Rhizomes [1.Sep.10]
Lisa Papineau: Red Trees [30.Aug.10]
Dignan Porch: Tendrils [26.Aug.10]
James Blackshaw: All Is Falling [24.Aug.10]
Peg Simone: Secrets From the Storm [19.Aug.10]
Ben Trickey: Come On, Hold On [12.Aug.10]
Endless Boogie: Full House Head [10.Aug.10]
Ethan Lipton & His Orchestra: Honker [5.Aug.10]
Admiral Radley: I Heart California [3.Aug.10]
Rangda: False Flag [28.Jul.10]
Emily Jane White: Victorian America [28.Jul.10]
Sam Quinn: The Fake that Sunk a Thousand Ships [18.Jul.10]
Sebastian Blanck: Alibi Coast [13.Jul.10]
Beach Fossils: Beach Fossils [13.Jul.10]
Gabor Szabo: Jazz Raga [12.Jul.10]
Pterodactyl: Arnold's Park [8.Jul.10]
John Cunningham: 1998-2002 [1.Jul.10]
Wolf Parade: Expo 86 [29.Jun.10]
The Roots: How I Got Over [25.Jun.10]
Tender Forever: No Snare [23.Jun.10]
The Flatliners: Cavalcade [21.Jun.10]
Hosannas: Then & Now & Then [17.Jun.10]
Venice Is Sinking: Sand & Lines [15.Jun.10]
Painted Hills: Painted Hills [10.Jun.10]
Suckers: Wild Smile [9.Jun.10]
Zola Jesus: Stridulum EP [8.Jun.10]
Wesley Wolfe: Storage [7.Jun.10]
Small Black: Small Black [1.Jun.10]
Sage Francis: Li(f)e [28.May.10]
Peter Wolf Crier: Inter-Be [25.May.10]
Devo: Duty Now for the Future [14.May.10]
Jack Rose: Luck in the Valley [7.May.10]
The Hold Steady: Heaven Is Whenever [4.May.10]
Plants and Animals: La La Land [23.Apr.10]
Horse Feathers: Thistled Spring [22.Apr.10]
The Tallest Man on Earth: The Wild Hunt [16.Apr.10]
Kaki King: Junior [15.Apr.10]
Robert Pollard: We All Got Out of the Army [9.Apr.10]
Harlem: Hippies [8.Apr.10]
Tony Sly: 12 Song Program [5.Apr.10]
Circus Devils: Mother Skinny [1.Apr.10]
Golden Triangle: Double Jointer [1.Apr.10]
Fang Island: Fang Island [31.Mar.10]
Tim Barry: 28th & Stonewall [29.Mar.10]
Nana Grizol: Ruth [25.Mar.10]
The Strange Boys: Be Brave [23.Mar.10]
Frightened Rabbit: Winter of Mixed Drinks [18.Mar.10]
Twin Tigers: Gray Waves [3.Mar.10]
Shearwater: The Golden Archipelago [2.Mar.10]
Joanna Newsom: Have One on Me [23.Feb.10]
Clem Snide: The Meat of Life [22.Feb.10]
The Brunettes: Paper Dolls [10.Feb.10]
Simon Scott: Navigare [5.Feb.10]
Pants Yell!: Received Pronunciation [29.Jan.10]
Vulture Whale: Bamboo You [28.Jan.10]
Citay: Dream Get Together [27.Jan.10]
Dead to Me: African Elephants [27.Jan.10]
A History Of: Action in the North Atlantic [26.Jan.10]
Dawn Landes: Sweet Heart Rodeo [19.Jan.10]
Doveman: The Conformist [18.Jan.10]
Tape Deck Mountain: Ghost [18.Jan.10]
NOFX: Cokie the Clown EP [14.Jan.10]
Mittens on Strings: Let's Go to Baba's [11.Jan.10]
Gift of Gab: Escape 2 Mars [6.Jan.10]
Holopaw: Oh, Glory. Oh, Wilderness. [5.Jan.10]
Old Canes: Feral Harmonic [17.Dec.09]
Inspector 22: Hey Man, I Understand [17.Dec.09]
Glorytellers: Atone [9.Dec.09]
Ahleuchatistas: Of the Body Prone [3.Dec.09]
Lowlights: Further/Free [20.Nov.09]
Ola Podrida: Belly of the Lion [19.Nov.09]
Ox: Burnout [16.Nov.09]
Turbo Fruits: Echo Kid [13.Nov.09]
On Fillmore: Extended Vacation [9.Nov.09]
Shelley Short: A Cave, A Canoo [6.Nov.09]
Molina and Johnson: Molina and Johnson [5.Nov.09]
Chet: Chelsea Silver, Please Come Home [26.Oct.09]
ILAD: Here//There [21.Oct.09]
Round Mountain: Windward [19.Oct.09]
The Everyday Visuals: The Everyday Visuals [14.Oct.09]
The Clientele: Bonfires on the Heath [7.Oct.09]
Mean Creek: The Sky or the Underground [7.Oct.09]
Built to Spill: There Is No Enemy [6.Oct.09]
Powell St. John: On My Way to Houston [6.Oct.09]
Lou Barlow: Goodnight Unknown [5.Oct.09]
The Twilight Sad: Forget the Night Ahead [1.Oct.09]
Bobby Bare Jr.: American Bread EP [1.Oct.09]
J. Tillman: Year in the Kingdom [25.Sep.09]
Polvo: In Prism [10.Sep.09]
Sleep Whale: Little Brite [26.Aug.09]
Rx Bandits: Mandala [24.Aug.09]
Megafaun: Gather, Form & Fly [21.Aug.09]
Nurses: Apple's Acre [20.Aug.09]
Reykjavik!: The Blood [19.Aug.09]
Doug Gillard: Call From Restricted [14.Aug.09]
Robert Pollard: Elephant Jokes [11.Aug.09]
Tiny Vipers: Life on Earth [7.Aug.09]
The Rural Alberta Advantage: Hometowns [4.Aug.09]
Fruit Bats: The Ruminant Band [3.Aug.09]
The Skygreen Leopards: Gorgeous Johnny [22.Jul.09]
Magnolia Electric Co.: Josephine [21.Jul.09]
James Blackshaw: The Glass Bead Game [16.Jul.09]
Gregg Kowalsky: Tape Chants [13.Jul.09]
The Bats: The Guilty Office [10.Jul.09]
Cryptacize: Mythomania [10.Jul.09]
Cage: Depart From Me [7.Jul.09]
Son Volt: American Central Dust [6.Jul.09]
Tom Brosseau: Posthumous Success [25.Jun.09]
Tortoise: Beacons of Ancestorship [23.Jun.09]
Dirty Projectors: Bitte Orca [10.Jun.09]
Casper and the Cookies: Modern Silence [2.Jun.09]
Iron & Wine: Around the Well [29.May.09]
Passion Pit: Manners [28.May.09]
Superchunk: Leaves in the Gutter [21.May.09]
The Oranges Band: ...Are Invisible [13.May.09]
St. Vincent: Actor [7.May.09]
Pink Mountaintops: Outside Love [4.May.09]
Paleface: The Show Is on the Road [1.May.09]
Thursday: Common Existence [30.Apr.09]
Sholi: Sholi [23.Apr.09]
Vulture Whale: Vulture Whale [23.Apr.09]
Woodpigeon: Treasury Library Canada [22.Apr.09]
Say Hi: Oohs & Aahs [14.Apr.09]
The Thermals: Now We Can See [7.Apr.09]
The Coathangers: Scramble [7.Apr.09]
Venice is Sinking: AZAR [6.Apr.09]
Sisters: Everybody... [6.Apr.09]
Obits: I Blame You [3.Apr.09]
Dead Heart Bloom: In Chains [30.Mar.09]
Fire on Fire: The Orchard [25.Mar.09]
BLK JKS: Mystery EP [25.Mar.09]
The Deep Dark Woods: Winter Hours [24.Mar.09]
Bonnie 'Prince' Billy: Beware [17.Mar.09]
Bishop Allen: Grrr... [9.Mar.09]
Maia Hirasawa: Though, I'm Just Me [9.Mar.09]
The Old Ceremony: Walk on Thin Ain [4.Mar.09]
Boston Spaceships: The Planets Are Blasted [3.Mar.09]
Point Juncture, WA: Heart to Elk [3.Mar.09]
Black Lips: 200 Million Thousand [27.Feb.09]
Alela Diane: To Be Still [27.Feb.09]
Vetiver: Tight Knit [25.Feb.09]
The Curtains of Night: Lost Houses [24.Feb.09]
Strand of Oaks: Leave Ruin [18.Feb.09]
M. Ward: Hold Time [17.Feb.09]
Johnny Dowd: A Drunkard's Masterpiece [9.Feb.09]
Autodrone: Strike a Match [3.Feb.09]
Phosphorescent: To Willie [2.Feb.09]
Chris Brokaw: Canaris [30.Jan.09]
Larkin Grimm: Parplar [28.Jan.09]
Tom Gabel: Heart Burns [26.Jan.09]
A.C. Newman: Get Guilty [23.Jan.09]
Nick Zubeck - Tracker [23.Jan.09]
The End of the World: French Exit [21.Jan.09]
Robert Pollard: The Crawling Distance [20.Jan.09]
Magnolia Summer: Lines from the Frame [20.Jan.09]
Daniel Martin Moore: Stray Age [18.Dec.08]
The Owl Service: A Garland of Song [17.Dec.08]
Wilderness: (k)no(w)here [15.Dec.08]
Hospital Bombers: Footnotes [10.Dec.08]
Midwest Dilemma - Timelines & Tragedies [4.Dec.08]
Megapuss: Surfing [1.Dec.08]
High Places: High Places [26.Nov.08]
Hospital Ships: Oh, Ramona [25.Nov.08]
Micah Blue Smaldone - The Red River [20.Nov.08]
White Hinterland - Luniculaire [19.Nov.08]
Pelle Carlberg: The Lilac Time [17.Nov.08]
White Denim: Exposion [14.Nov.08]
Religious Knives: The Door [11.Nov.08]
Circus Devils: Ataxia [10.Nov.08]
The Clientele: That Night, A Forest Grew [10.Nov.08]
Desolation Wilderness: White Light Strobing [6.Nov.08]
Ryan Adams and the Cardinals: Cardinology [3.Nov.08]
Fucked Up: The Chemisty of Common Life [30.Oct.08]
Parts & Labor: Receivers [23.Oct.08]
Jim White: A Funny Little Cross to Bear [20.Oct.08]
The Moondoggies: Don't Be a Stranger [17.Oct.08]
Prisonshake: Dirty Moons [17.Oct.08]
Dungen: 4 [16.Oct.08]
The Organ: Thieves [15.Oct.08]
The Rosebuds: Life Like [10.Oct.08]
Castanets: City of Refuge [8.Oct.08]
Crooked Fingers: Forfeit/Fortune [7.Oct.08]
Lambchop: OH (ohio) [6.Oct.08]
Blitzen Trapper: Furr [29.Sep.08]
Restiform Bodies: TV Loves You Back [25.Sep.08]
Passion Pit: Chunk of Change [23.Sep.08]
Portastatic: Some Small History [17.Sep.08]
Human Highway: Moody Motorcycle [10.Sep.08]
The Dead Science: Villainaire [10.Sep.08]
Liz Durrett: Outside Our Gates [2.Sep.08]
Matt Pryor: Confidence Man [29.Aug.08]
The Real McKenzies: Off the Leash [28.Aug.08]
Doveman: Footloose [25.Aug.08]
Jennifer O'Connor: Here with Me [22.Aug.08]
Noa Babayof: From a Window to a Wall [22.Aug.08]
31Knots: Worried Well [18.Aug.08]
Nethers: What the Wind Will Never Tell [18.Aug.08]
Dianogah: Qhnnnl [13.Aug.08]
Joseph Arthur: Vagabond Skies [11.Aug.08]
The Avett Brothers: The Second Gleam [8.Aug.08]
The Lord Dog Bird: The Lord Dog Bird [4.Aug.08]
Jandek: Glasgow Friday [25.Jul.08]
Faun Fables: A Table Forgotten [24.Jul.08]
Jaguar Love: Jaguar Love EP [23.Jul.08]
A Happy Man and Other Stories [22.Jul.08]
Bodies of Water: A Certain Feeling [22.Jul.08]
Bell: EP [16.Jul.08]
Sebadoh: Bubble and Scrape [11.Jul.08]
Sing Me Back Home by Dana Jennings [10.Jul.08]
The Explorers Club: Freedom Wind [27.Jun.08]
The Pomegranates: Everything is Alive [26.Jun.08]
HEALTH: HEALTH//DISCO [23.Jun.08]
Where the Wind Blew by Bob Sommer [23.Jun.08]
Silver Jews: Lookout Mountain, Lookout Sea [19.Jun.08]
Centro-Matic / South San Gabriel: Dual Hawks [18.Jun.08]
Bellafea: Cavalcade [13.Jun.08]
The National: A Skin, A Night & The Virginia EP [12.Jun.08]
My Morning Jacket: Evil Urges [10.Jun.08]
Vetiver: Thing of the Past [6.Jun.08]
Drakkar Sauna: War and Tornadoes [2.Jun.08]
Gossip of the Starlings by Nina de Gramont [2.Jun.08]
Devon Williams: Careerfree [29.May.08]
The Little Ones: Terry Tales & Fallen Gates [29.May.08]
Christine Fellows: Nevertheless [27.May.08]
Annuals: Wet Zoo EP [14.May.08]
Unaccustomed Earth by Jhumpa Lahiri [8.May.08]
Jandek: The Myth of Blue Icicles [8.May.08]
Coal Black Horse by Robert Olmstead [2.May.08]
Sera Cahoone: Only as the Day is Long [28.Apr.08]
Look Mexico: The Crucial Collection [28.Apr.08]
Our Story Begins by Tobias Wolff [24.Apr.08]
Good Riddance: Remain in Memory [24.Apr.08]
Billy Bragg: Mr. Love & Justice [22.Apr.08]
Panic Ensemble: Panic Ensemble [16.Apr.08]
Colin Meloy: Colin Meloy Sings Live! [11.Apr.08]
The House of Widows by Askold Melnyczuk [10.Apr.08]
The Strugglers: The Latest Rights [10.Apr.08]
Elf Power: In a Cave [25.Mar.08]
Birds of Avalon: Outer Upper Inner EP [19.Mar.08]
Grand Archives: Grand Archives [14.Mar.08]
Flogging Molly: Float [13.Mar.08]
Ladyhawk: Shots [12.Mar.08]
The Future of Love by Shirley Abbott [12.Mar.08]
White Hinterland: Phylactery Factory [4.Mar.08]
Ida: Lovers Prayers [29.Feb.08]
Various Artists: Living Bridge [28.Feb.08]
Refresh, Refresh by Benjamin Percy [26.Feb.08]
Antarctica Takes It!: The Penguin League [25.Feb.08]
American Music Club: The Golden Age [22.Feb.08]
Glorytellers: Glorytellers [22.Feb.08]
Robert Pollard: Superman was a Rocker [21.Feb.08]
Arlington Park by Rachel Cusk [20.Feb.08]
The Mountain Goats: Heretic Pride [19.Feb.08]
Swordfishtrombones (33 1/3) by David Smay [19.Feb.08]
The Loved Ones: Build & Burn [19.Feb.08]
Fire on Fire: 5 Song EP [13.Feb.08]
Cat Power: Jukebox [7.Feb.08]
Jeffrey Lewis: 12 Crass Songs [5.Feb.08]
MGMT: Oracular Spectacular [23.Jan.08]
The Brother Kite: Moonlit Race EP [23.Jan.08]
Black Mountain: In the Future [21.Jan.08]
Tullycraft: Every Scene Needs a Center [16.Jan.08]
House & Parish: One, One-Thousand [15.Jan.08]
Tim Hecker: Norberg [11.Jan.08]
Golden Death Music: Ephemera Blues [9.Jan.08]
Aloha: Light Works [4.Jan.08]
Tomorrow by Graham Swift [18.Dec.07]
NOFX: Theyve Actually Gotten Worse Live! [14.Dec.07]
Shocking Pinks: Shocking Pinks [11.Dec.07]
Tom Brosseau: Cavalier [10.Dec.07]
Ghostface Killah: The Big Doe Rehab [10.Dec.07]
Pants Yell!: Alison Statton [7.Dec.07]
State Radio: Year of the Crow [7.Dec.07]
Like You'd Understand, Anyway by Jim Shepard [5.Dec.07]
Ahleuchatistas: …Even in the Midst [4.Dec.07]
SNMNMNM: Crawl Inside Your Head [4.Dec.07]
Six Organs of Admittance: Shelter from the Ash [29.Nov.07]
Jana Hunter: Carrion EP [28.Nov.07]
Grizzly Bear: Friend EP [26.Nov.07]
Born Ruffians: Hummingbird [26.Nov.07]
Merle Haggard: Hag's Christmas [21.Nov.07]
Kinski: Down Below its Chaos [13.Nov.07]
Sandro Perri: Tiny Mirrors [12.Nov.07]
Champion Kickboxer: Perforations [9.Nov.07]
Bridge of Sighs by Richard Russo [9.Nov.07]
Dead Boys by Richard Lange [6.Nov.07]
Marissa Nadler: Songs III: Bird on the Water [5.Nov.07]
Karate: Five-Ninety-Five [1.Nov.07]
Castanets: In the Vines [31.Oct.07]
The For Carnation: Promised Works [30.Oct.07]
Emily Jane White: Dark Undercoat [30.Oct.07]
Two Gallants: Two Gallants [22.Oct.07]
The Bosch: Hurry Up [17.Oct.07]
Radiohead: In Rainbows [15.Oct.07]
Japanther: Skuffed Up My Huffy [15.Oct.07]
Swivel Chairs: The Slow Transmission [12.Oct.07]
Robert Pollard: Coast to Coast Carpet of Love [11.Oct.07]
Band of Horses: Cease to Begin [10.Oct.07]
The Fiery Furnaces: Widow City [9.Oct.07]
The Weakerthans: Reunion Tour [1.Oct.07]
Speck Mountain: Summer Above [1.Oct.07]
Shepherdess: Shepherdess [28.Sep.07]
Sea Wolf: Leaves in the River [26.Sep.07]
Steve Earle: Washington Square Serenade [25.Sep.07]
Dropkick Murphys: The Meanest of Times [18.Sep.07]
Akron/Family: Love is Simple [17.Sep.07]
Health: Health [14.Sep.07]
Animal Collective: Strawberry Jam [13.Sep.07]
Jason Anderson: Tonight [11.Sep.07]
Right Livelihoods by Rick Moody [11.Sep.07]
Pelican: City of Echoes [30.Aug.07]
Oh No! Oh My!: Between the Devil and the Sea [29.Aug.07]
Foreign Born: On the Wing Now [21.Aug.07]
Jennifer Gentle: The Midnight Room [21.Aug.07]
The Takeovers: Bad Football [16.Aug.07]
New Stories from the South by Edward P. Jones (Guest Editor) and Kathy Pories (Series Editor) [9.Aug.07]
Virgin of the Birds: Mixed Choir [8.Aug.07]
Pissed Jeans: Hope for Men [8.Aug.07]
Patton Oswalt: Werewolves and Lollipops [3.Aug.07]
Mad Caddies: Keep It Going [31.Jul.07]
Against Me!: New Wave [25.Jul.07]
John Vanderslice: Emerald City [24.Jul.07]
Rob Crow: I Hate You, Rob Crow [18.Jul.07]
Robert Pollard: Crickets [16.Jul.07]
Various Artists: Healing the Divide [11.Jul.07]
KK Null: Fertile [9.Jul.07]
Sean Na Na: Family Trees or: Must Cope We [9.Jul.07]
Young Galaxy: Young Galaxy [3.Jul.07]
Disciple: Come and See Us as We Are! [2.Jul.07]
Whiting Tennis: Three Leaf Clover [28.Jun.07]
Nick Drake: Family Tree [22.Jun.07]
Shout Out Louds: Tonight I Have to Leave It EP [18.Jun.07]
Electrelane: No Shouts, No Calls [15.Jun.07]
Ramona Cordova: The Boy Who Floated Freely [14.Jun.07]
Dizzee Rascal: Maths & English [13.Jun.07]
The Field: From Here We Go Sublime [8.Jun.07]
Custom Made: Truth Be Told EP [7.Jun.07]
The Comas: Spells [7.Jun.07]
Great Lake Swimmers: Ongiara [5.Jun.07]
Olvis: Bravado [24.May.07]
Love in October: Words of Sound [17.May.07]
The New Rags: Take Jennie to Brooklyn [11.May.07]
Dark Meat: Universal Indians [8.May.07]
Mice Parade: Mice Parade [7.May.07]
Dinosaur Jr.: Beyond [4.May.07]
Central Services: Central Services [25.Apr.07]
Spank Rock: Fabriclive 33 [25.Apr.07]
The Blow: Poor Aim: Love Songs [23.Apr.07]
Dolly Varden: The Panic Bell [19.Apr.07]
Charlie Louvin: Charlie Louvin [17.Apr.07]
Loch Lomond: Lament for Children [11.Apr.07]
DatR: Turn Up the Ghosts [10.Apr.07]
Robert Pollard: Silverfish Trivia [2.Apr.07]
Only Crime: Virulence [16.Mar.07]
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