Features
Tuesday, February 7 2012
Mental Pop & Beyoncé Beats: An Interview with Liam Finn
Crusty walls of distortion co-exist with pop hooks in the second and latest solo album from Liam Finn. Here the songwriter talks about taking a break from life on the road to write FOMO in far-off New Zealand, working with producer Burke Reed and percussionist Glenn Kotche to seriously tinker with his sound and taking inspiration from, of all people, Beyoncé.
Wednesday, November 30 2011
Contrary Opinions: An Interview with Rob Crow
Pinback co-founder Rob Crow dislikes dogs, the Beatles, and people who copy other people's songs, and he's not afraid to tell you about it.
Wednesday, August 31 2011
Hot Licks and Fast Cars: The John Hiatt interview
Iconic songwriter John Hiatt talks cars, blues, love , 9/11 and his excellent new album Dirty Jeans and Mudslide Hymns.
Monday, August 15 2011
Labor of Love: Interview with Tony Skalicky and Mike Ingenthron of Get Help
The songwriters from Get Help talk about how a casual collaboration between two “restraining order level” Guided by Voices fans turned into an email dialogue, blog, a set of songs and, finally, two excellent albums.
Monday, August 1 2011
Brave New Voice: An Interview with Austra’s Katie Stelmanis
Katie Stelmanis spent her childhood at recital halls and chorale concerts – and aspired, at one point, to be an opera singer. A left turn in her late teens led her into Toronto’s punk scene. Her latest project, Austra, brings all her worlds together, combining punk’s DIY sensibility, classical music’s intricacies and the heady abandon of electro pop.
Taking Stock with David Bazan [26.Jul.11]
Faun Fables Finds Solace in the Kitchen [22.Apr.11]
In a Heartbeat: An Interview with Callers [6.Dec.10]
Somi: A Complicated Sense of Home [2.Jul.10]
Phosphorescent: Peeling Back the Surface [30.Jun.10]
Eluvium: A Change in Direction [7.Apr.10]
Rocky Votolato: Coming Out of the Darkness [24.Feb.10]
Hats Off: An Interview with Roy Harper [20.Oct.08]
Chicha Libre [New York] [27.Mar.08]
In Extremity and Loving It [20.Mar.08]
New Ground: An Interview with PJ Harvey [28.Nov.07]
Michael Gira in His Own Words [30.Oct.07]
Fire Engines: Hungry Beat [3.Oct.07]
Chris Letcher [London/South Africa] [23.Aug.07]
Je Suis France [Athens, GA] [11.Jul.07]
Branching Out: An Interview With Ted Leo [23.Apr.07]
Out of Nowhere: An Interview With Maps [20.Mar.07]
Such Nice Boys: An Interview With Terry Six [28.Feb.07]
Dirty Faces [11.Feb.07]
Take Flight: An Interview with Red Sparowes [31.Jan.07]
Radio Birdman Does the Pop Again: An Interview [26.Oct.06]
Perpetual Motion: An Interview with Akron/Family [11.Oct.06]
The Little Ones [7.Sep.06]
The Little Killers [15.Aug.06]
Folk Goes Interplanetary with Espers [2.May.06]
Man Man Lets Its Demons Out of the Bag [6.Feb.06]
Feathers Flock Together [1.Jan.95]
Secret Girl: An Interview with Kim Gordon [1.Jan.95]
The Sadies Come Out in Front [1.Jan.95]
The Apocalyptic Visions of Current 93 [1.Jan.95]
DIY for Life: An Interview with Eric Gaffney [1.Jan.95]
Reviews
Thursday, June 11 2009
Ponytail + The Pains of Being Pure at Heart + Rabbit Rabbit: 26 April 2009 - Northampton, MA
I’d give it to Ponytail if I had to name a winner, but it’s rare that two bands succeed so well on different terms.
Wednesday, April 8 2009
The Baron: The Complete Series
British television’s forgotten international man of mystery battles cold war villains, ex-Nazis and art thieves around the world…without ever leaving a London backlot.
Thursday, March 12 2009
Amargosa + Aseethe + Shores of the Tundra
There is nothing quite like the visual of a camouflage-dressed metal singer spewing rage and disaffection into a microphone in front of benches that have hymnals tucked into the pockets.
Friday, February 20 2009
Loney, Dear + Dennis Crommett + Aric Bieganek
Loney, Dear’s Emil Svanängen has long since made the transition from secluded laptop folk artist to full-fledged pop bandleader.
Thursday, February 12 2009
The Odd Couple: The Final Season
The often cancelled, usually revived Odd Couple ventures outside the apartment and outside its central relationship in the fifth and final season.
Wild Light + Birdfeeder [28.Jan.09]
Dreamend: The Long Forgotten Friend [20.Jan.09]
We Landed on the Moon: These Little Wars [14.Jan.09]
Red Eyed Legends [14.Jan.09]
Wall-E [9.Jan.09]
Push-Pull:Hello Soldier [8.Jan.09]
Viking Moses: The Parts That Showed [18.Dec.08]
The Rockwells: Place and Time [17.Dec.08]
M83 + School of Seven Bells [16.Dec.08]
B. Fleischmann: Angst Is Not a Weltanschauung [11.Dec.08]
Like a Fox: Where's My Golden Arm [3.Dec.08]
Klangwart: Stadtlandfluss [25.Nov.08]
Savina Yannatou: Songs of An Other [18.Nov.08]
Michael Chapman + Jack Rose [14.Nov.08]
Fredrik: Na Na Ni [13.Nov.08]
The Magnificents: Year of Explorers [6.Nov.08]
Bears: Simple Machinery [5.Nov.08]
Mark Tucker: In the Sack [3.Nov.08]
George Stavis + Cian Nugent + Ben Reynolds [31.Oct.08]
Monsters Are Waiting: Ones and Zeroes [31.Oct.08]
Woven Hand: Ten Stones [29.Oct.08]
caUSE co-MOTION: It's Time [28.Oct.08]
Hush Arbors: Hush Arbors [27.Oct.08]
Robbie Basho: Bonn Ist Supreme [27.Oct.08]
Palmyra Delran: She Digs the Ride [21.Oct.08]
KatJonBand: KatJonBand [15.Oct.08]
Goldcure: Portuguese Prince [15.Oct.08]
Palms: It's Midnight in Honolulu [10.Oct.08]
Chandeliers: The Thrush [9.Oct.08]
Thurston Moore + Little Claw + Eat Skull [3.Oct.08]
Boduf Songs: How Shadows Change the Balance [30.Sep.08]
XX Teens: Welcome to Goon Island [29.Sep.08]
The Anton Chekhov Collection [25.Sep.08]
Apse: Spirit [24.Sep.08]
Black Sun Ensemble: Across the Sea of Id [17.Sep.08]
All the Saints: Fire on Corridor X [11.Sep.08]
Steve Wynn: Crossing Dragon Bridge [9.Sep.08]
The Weeks: Comeback Cadillac [5.Sep.08]
Thank You: Terrible Two [26.Aug.08]
Osborne: Osborne [25.Aug.08]
King Khan & the Shrines + Live Fast Die [14.Aug.08]
LD & the New Criticism: Amoral Certitudes [14.Aug.08]
The Instruments: Dark Småland [12.Aug.08]
Boy Omega: Hope on the Horizon [30.Jul.08]
Dengue Fever + Chicha Libre [29.Jul.08]
Wayne Horvitz Gravitas Quartet: One Dance Alone [29.Jul.08]
TimLee3: Good2b3 [17.Jul.08]
The Closer: The Complete Third Season [16.Jul.08]
The Boy Bathing: A Fire to Make Preparations [14.Jul.08]
Skybombers: Take Me To Town [10.Jul.08]
Los Lonely Boys: Forgiven [2.Jul.08]
Pyramids: Pyramids [27.Jun.08]
Mats Morgan Band: Heat Beats Live [25.Jun.08]
Scorch Trio: Brolt! [24.Jun.08]
Marilyn Crispell: Vignettes [16.Jun.08]
Lexie Mountain Boys: Sacred Vacation [10.Jun.08]
Lights: Lights [9.Jun.08]
Chris Mills: Living in the Aftermath [5.Jun.08]
Elvis Costello: Momofuku [4.Jun.08]
Night Marchers: See You In Magic [3.Jun.08]
Shearwater + Jennifer O'Connor [30.May.08]
Thalia Zedek Band: Liars and Prayers [29.May.08]
Various Artists: What's Happening in Pernambuco [16.May.08]
Movin' On Up [7.May.08]
Roommate: We Were Enchanted [5.May.08]
The Chapin Sisters: Lake Bottom [29.Apr.08]
Experimental Aircraft: Third Transmission [29.Apr.08]
Peg Simone: The Deeper You Get [23.Apr.08]
Helvetia: The Acrobats [22.Apr.08]
Various artists: Do the Pop! [18.Apr.08]
Unwed Sailor: Little Wars [14.Apr.08]
Ex Reverie: The Door into Summer [9.Apr.08]
Ssion: Fool's Gold [1.Apr.08]
Lo-Fine: Not For Us Two [31.Mar.08]
Big Dipper: Supercluster [28.Mar.08]
Head of Femur: Great Plains [27.Mar.08]
PacificUV: Longplay2 [27.Mar.08]
SSM: Break Your Arm for Evolution [12.Mar.08]
Justice of the Unicorns: Angels with Uzi [10.Mar.08]
The Swimmers: Fighting Trees [7.Mar.08]
The Waco Brothers: Waco Express [6.Mar.08]
MI-5: Volume 5 [4.Mar.08]
Foot Foot: Trumpet [27.Feb.08]
Sabertooth: Dr Midnight [27.Feb.08]
Németh: Film [26.Feb.08]
Throw Me the Statue: Moonbeams [19.Feb.08]
The Ex: Building a Broken Mousetrap [DVD] [15.Feb.08]
The Resonars: Nonetheless Blue [14.Feb.08]
The Bridge: The Bridge [12.Feb.08]
Aaron Stout: Queens Live in Caskets [11.Feb.08]
Condor Moments: …And Though We're Told We've Got It All, The All We've Got Is Freezing Cold [8.Feb.08]
School of Language: Sea from Shore [5.Feb.08]
The Dig: Good Luck and Games EP [1.Feb.08]
Biirdie: Catherine Avenue [31.Jan.08]
Barton Carroll: The Lost One [29.Jan.08]
The Odd Couple: The Third Season [25.Jan.08]
Eric Matthews: The Imagination Stage [18.Jan.08]
Mike Uva and Hook Boy: Static Songs [18.Jan.08]
Hell on Heels: Dogs, Records and Wine [17.Jan.08]
Hisato Higuchi: Butterfly Horse Street [9.Jan.08]
Pinch: Underwater Dancehall [8.Jan.08]
The Cynics: Here We Are [17.Dec.07]
Tiger! Tiger!: The Kind of Goodnight [14.Dec.07]
The Grip Weeds: House of Vibes Revisited [10.Dec.07]
The Major Stars: Mirror/Messenger [3.Dec.07]
Alcest: Souvenirs DUn Autre Monde [28.Nov.07]
Medium: The Third Season [19.Nov.07]
Spider: The Way to Bitter Lake [16.Nov.07]
Southeast Engine: A Wheel Within a Wheel [15.Nov.07]
Euros Childs: The Miracle Inn [9.Nov.07]
Michael Dracula: In the Red [6.Nov.07]
Dust Galaxy: Dust Galaxy [5.Nov.07]
Pamela Wyn Shannon: Courting Autumn [5.Nov.07]
Michael Hurley: The Ancestral Swamp [2.Nov.07]
230 Divisadero: 230 Divisader [31.Oct.07]
Ethan Rose: Spinning Pieces [29.Oct.07]
Siberian: With Me [23.Oct.07]
Fatal Flying Guilloteens: Quantum Fucking [18.Oct.07]
Donny Hue & the Colors: Folkmote [17.Oct.07]
Circle: Katapult [15.Oct.07]
Sugar & Gold: Creme [12.Oct.07]
Ed Askew: Little Eyes [12.Oct.07]
X27: Antilove [3.Oct.07]
Upsilon Acrux: Galapagos Momentum [21.Sep.07]
Sleepytime Gorilla Museum + Tub Ring [19.Sep.07]
Turbo Fruits: Turbo Fruits [19.Sep.07]
The Get Quick: See You in the Crossfire [19.Sep.07]
Gravenhurst: The Western Lands [17.Sep.07]
People Noise: Ordinary Ghosts [12.Sep.07]
Heavy Trash: Going Way Out with Heavy Trash [5.Sep.07]
Matteah Baim: Death of the Sun [27.Aug.07]
The Mekons: Natural [23.Aug.07]
John P. Strohm: Everyday Life [20.Aug.07]
Jason Holstrom: The Thieves of Kailua [14.Aug.07]
Art in Manila: Set the Woods on Fire [13.Aug.07]
Various Artists: The Trials of Darryl Hunt [13.Aug.07]
Dog Day: Night Group [27.Jul.07]
Southerly: Storyteller and the Gossip Columnist [26.Jul.07]
Part Chimp: Cup [16.Jul.07]
Fursaxa: Alone in the Dark Wood [13.Jul.07]
The Evens [6.Jul.07]
Thee Fine Lines: Set You Straight [6.Jul.07]
Mary Timony: The Shapes We Make [2.Jul.07]
Miroslav Vitous: Live in Vienna [DVD] [29.Jun.07]
Rasputina: Oh Perilous World [28.Jun.07]
Nonloc: Between Hemispheres [27.Jun.07]
John Doe: A Year in the Wilderness [22.Jun.07]
Califone + The Bitter Tears [21.Jun.07]
Slaraffenland: Private Cinema [21.Jun.07]
Lou Rhodes: Beloved One [15.Jun.07]
Queens of the Stone Age: Era Vulgaris [11.Jun.07]
Clorox Girls: JAime Les Filles [8.Jun.07]
Paul Collins Beat: Flying High [8.Jun.07]
Antelope: Reflector [5.Jun.07]
Black Moth Super Rainbow: Dandelion Gum [24.May.07]
At Dusk: You Can Know Danger [23.May.07]
The National: Boxer [21.May.07]
Radical Face: Ghost [11.May.07]
Tarwater: Spider Smile [8.May.07]
Cold Bleak Heat: Simitu [3.May.07]
The Vocokesh: ...All This and Hieronymus Bosch [25.Apr.07]
Mary Weiss: Dangerous Game [17.Apr.07]
Greg Ashley: Painted Garden [11.Apr.07]
Stargate Atlantis - The Complete Second Season [10.Apr.07]
The Safes: Well, Well, Well [5.Apr.07]
Nightingales + The Victoria Lucas [30.Mar.07]
Zozobra: Harmonic Tremors [29.Mar.07]
Sonic The Hedgehog - The Complete Series [26.Mar.07]
Holy Molar: Cavity Search [19.Mar.07]
McHales Navy - Season One [19.Mar.07]
Arbouretum: Rites of Uncovering [15.Mar.07]
Pagoda: Pagoda [12.Mar.07]
Peter and the Wolf: Lightness [6.Mar.07]
My Teenage Stride: Ears Like Golden Bats [5.Mar.07]
Autumn Shade: Ezra Moon [27.Feb.07]
Primordial Undermind: Loss of Affect [26.Feb.07]
River City Tanlines: Im Your Negative [19.Feb.07]
Various artists: Beyond Istanbul [19.Feb.07]
Starless & Bible Black: Starless & Bible Black [15.Feb.07]
Nobody: Revisions Revisions [9.Feb.07]
Terry Manning: Home Sweet Home [31.Jan.07]
Mission of Burma + Oneida [29.Jan.07]
The Trolleyvox: Present the Karaoke Meltdowns [26.Jan.07]
French Toast: Ingleside Terrace [25.Jan.07]
Coach Fingers: No Flies on Frank [18.Jan.07]
Entrance: Prayer of Death [16.Jan.07]
David Kilgour: The Far Now [15.Jan.07]
Dirty Faces: Get Right With God [9.Jan.07]
Boduf Songs: Lion Devours the Sun [5.Jan.07]
Kamikaze Hearts: Oneida Road [5.Jan.07]
Swan Island: The Centre Will Hold [4.Jan.07]
Rafael Toral: Space [3.Jan.07]
The Memory Band: Apron Strings [22.Dec.06]
Nurse with Wound: Rock N Roll Station [21.Dec.06]
SCTV - Best Of The Early Years [20.Dec.06]
31 Knots: Polemics [19.Dec.06]
Alejandro Escovedo String Quartet + Mark Mulcahy [18.Dec.06]
Some Action: The Band That Sucked the Life Out of Rock n Roll and Killed Itself in the Process [11.Dec.06]
Summer Hymns: Backward Masks [11.Dec.06]
Pattern Is Movement: Canonic [6.Dec.06]
Paul Brill: Harpooner [30.Nov.06]
Les Breastfeeders: Les Matins de Grands Soirs [27.Nov.06]
The Low Lows: Fire on the Bright Sky [22.Nov.06]
The Figgs: Follow Jean to the Sea [21.Nov.06]
Earl Greyhound: Soft Targets [17.Nov.06]
The Black Neon: Arts & Crafts [15.Nov.06]
The Nice Boys: The Nice Boys [13.Nov.06]
Steffen Basho-Junghans: Late Summer Morning [3.Nov.06]
Luc Ferrari: Son Mémorisé [1.Nov.06]
The Bamboo Kids: Feel Like Hell [27.Oct.06]
Beach House: Beach House [24.Oct.06]
Theo Angell: Dearly Beloved [20.Oct.06]
The Anderson Council: The Fall Parade [19.Oct.06]
Remote Islands: Smother Party [17.Oct.06]
Two Dollar Guitar: The Wear and Tear of Fear [17.Oct.06]
The Who: The Who - The Vegas Job [DVD] [13.Oct.06]
Marble Valley: Wild Yams [5.Oct.06]
Architecture in Helsinki + The Blow [5.Oct.06]
Various artists: Radio Algeria [5.Oct.06]
Kath Bloom: Finally [2.Oct.06]
Bosque Brown: Cerro Verde [29.Sep.06]
Spencer Dickinson: The Man Who Lives for Love [29.Sep.06]
Philip E. Karnats: Pleasesuite [25.Sep.06]
Thee Emergency: Can You Dig It? [22.Sep.06]
Donkeys: Donkeys [21.Sep.06]
Theater Fire: Everybody Has a Dark Side [20.Sep.06]
Bound Stems: Appreciation Night [20.Sep.06]
Nat Baldwin: Enter the Winter [11.Sep.06]
Christian Kiefer: Czar Nicholas Is Dead [11.Sep.06]
Nethers: In Fields We Will Lie [5.Sep.06]
Drop the Lime: We Never Sleep [1.Sep.06]
Arrington De Dionyso: Breath of Fire [25.Aug.06]
Various Artists: Live at KEXP, Vol. 2 [22.Aug.06]
Candi Staton: The Ultimate Gospel Collection [21.Aug.06]
Black Fiction: Ghost Ride [7.Aug.06]
Spoon: Soft Effects EP/Telephono [31.Jul.06]
Cloudland Canyon: Requiems Der Natur, 2002-2004 [24.Jul.06]
Oneida: Happy New Year [12.Jul.06]
The Country Teasers: The Empire Strikes Back [10.Jul.06]
Etran Finatawa: Introducing Etran Finatawa [30.Jun.06]
Willowz: Seeinsquares (2006): Richie James Follin, Alex Nowicki, Jessica Reynoza - PopMatters Film [26.Jun.06]
Dinosaur Jr.: Green Mind [21.Jun.06]
Bardo Pond: Ticket Crystals [12.Jun.06]
Ladyhawk: Ladyhawk [9.Jun.06]
Feu Thérèse: Feu Thérèse [1.Jun.06]
About: Bongo [15.May.06]
Untied States: Retail Detail [1.May.06]
No-Neck Blues Band and Embryo: Embryonnck [28.Apr.06]
Lylas: Lessons for Lovers [27.Apr.06]
Moha!: Raus Aus Stavanger [18.Apr.06]
The Seconds: Kratitude [17.Apr.06]
Parts & Labor: Stay Afraid [13.Apr.06]
Eagles of Death Metal: Death by Sexy [7.Apr.06]
The Rogers Sisters: The Invisible Deck [23.Mar.06]
Stereolab + Espers [20.Mar.06]
Stone Jack Jones: Bluefolk [14.Mar.06]
Milosh: Meme [13.Mar.06]
Destroyer: Destroyer's Rubies [20.Feb.06]
Tarkio: Omnibus [15.Feb.06]
Vinicius Cantuária: Silva [14.Feb.06]
Calla [9.Feb.06]
Jonathan Kane: February [30.Jan.06]
Love Story in Blood Red: Love Story in Blood Red [26.Jan.06]
Blogs
Music Day 3: Obits / Wovenhand / Major Stars (Notes from the Road) [22.Mar.09]
Music Day 3: Mayyors (Notes from the Road) [22.Mar.09]
Music Day 3: WFMU Showcase - The Strong Stuff (Notes from the Road) [21.Mar.09]
Music Day 3: Mi Ami (Notes from the Road) [21.Mar.09]
Music Day 3: No Primal Scream, No Sonics (Notes from the Road) [21.Mar.09]
Music Day 3: Running Out of Power (Notes from the Road) [21.Mar.09]
Music Day 2: Secretly Canadian / Jagjaguwar / Dead Oceans Showcase (Notes from the Road) [21.Mar.09]
Music Day 2: Team Clermont / Utne Reader Party (Notes from the Road) [20.Mar.09]
Music Day 2: Beerland again, what can I say? (Notes from the Road) [20.Mar.09]
Music Day 2: Tim Easton (Notes from the Road) [20.Mar.09]
Music Day 1: K Records Showcase (Notes from the Road) [19.Mar.09]
Music Day 1: Day Shows (Notes from the Road) [19.Mar.09]
Music Day 1: Anticon / Ghostly International Showcase (Notes from the Road) [19.Mar.09]
Stephen Lynch - "3 Balloons" (MP3) (Mixed Media) [11.Mar.09]
Anahita - "Pirin Planina" / "Chalice of Cypress" / "Velvet Shoon" (MP3) (Mixed Media) [5.Mar.09]
My kid could do that... no, my elephant could (MP3/video) (Mixed Media) [26.Feb.09]
African blues from Terakaft (Mixed Media) [13.Feb.09]
Dex Romweber Duo: "Picture of You" / "Lookout" (MP3) (Mixed Media) [10.Feb.09]
The National: Boxer [$14.98] (Consuming Consumables) [27.Nov.07]
