Features
Monday, December 18 2006
Surround Sound #9: Hodgepodge
The latest Surround Sound installment tackles a hodgepodge of kids movies, TV shows, indie flicks, and more.
Tuesday, February 7 2006
The Oscar Influence
The latest Surround Sound installment takes a closer look at the effect of the Oscar season push on their related soundtracks.
Sunday, January 1 1995
Fifteen Minutes with Bloc Party
Drummer Matt Tong talks about their rapid success.
Sunday, January 1 1995
Behind the Show Behind the Music
The O.C.'s Alexandra Patsavas explains how music gets from her ears to your screen.
Reviews
Thursday, July 26 2007
Maps: We Can Create
Shortlisted for the Mercury Prize, Maps' debut full length is another solid entry into the growing “widescreen sound” oeuvre.
Tuesday, July 24 2007
Montag: Going Places
Antoine Bedard's sophisticated electronic compositions provide more than meets the ear.
Thursday, June 28 2007
Boom Bip: Sacchrilege
An ‘80s aesthetic that borders on ironic, and will throw longtime fans for a bit of loop.
Tuesday, June 26 2007
The Locust: New Erections
Still going after 12 years, San Diego's most provocative outfit offer their most ambitious record to date.
Monday, June 4 2007
Various Artists: Music From And Inspired By Spider-Man 3
Featuring exclusive tracks by the Yeah Yeah Yeahs, the Flaming Lips, the Walkmen and the Killers, Spider-Man attempts to court an indie audience.
Tim Kinsella: Field Recordings of Dreams [1.Jun.07]
Stars: Do You Trust Your Friends? [22.May.07]
The Narrator: All That To The Wall [15.May.07]
Mando Diao: Ode to Ochrasy [20.Apr.07]
Call Me Lightning: Soft Skeletons [10.Apr.07]
Shining: Grindstone [28.Mar.07]
The One AM Radio: This Too Will Pass [27.Mar.07]
Amiina: Seoul [27.Mar.07]
Loney, Dear: Loney, Noir [21.Mar.07]
Acrobat: The Unbelievable Truth [16.Mar.07]
Trans Am: Sex Change [26.Feb.07]
Botch: Unifying Themes Redux [9.Feb.07]
Youth Group: Casino Twilight Dogs [7.Feb.07]
+/-: Lets Build a Fire [16.Jan.07]
Owen: At Home With Owen [12.Jan.07]
Air: Late Night Tales [5.Dec.06]
Born Ruffians: Born Ruffians [22.Nov.06]
My Latest Novel: Wolves [15.Nov.06]
Isis + Aereogramme: In The Fishtank 14 [8.Nov.06]
Various Artists: Musics In The Margin [6.Nov.06]
Jeremy Enigk: World Waits [27.Oct.06]
Now It's Overhead: Dark Light Daybreak [25.Oct.06]
The Curtains: Calamity [20.Oct.06]
Brazilian Girls: Talk To La Bomb [11.Oct.06]
Jenny Piccolo: Jenny Piccolo [2.Oct.06]
5ive: Versus [14.Sep.06]
Viva Voce: Get Yr Blood Sucked Out [14.Sep.06]
The Big Eyes Family Players: Do The Musiking [12.Sep.06]
Headlights: Kill Them With Kindness [6.Sep.06]
The Hylozoists: La Fin Du Monde [24.Aug.06]
Hanne Hukkelberg: Do Not As I Do [16.Aug.06]
Think About Life: Think About Life [16.Aug.06]
Bexar Bexar: Tropism [14.Aug.06]
Various Artists: Project: Bicycle [11.Aug.06]
Aleuchatistas: What You Will [26.Jul.06]
Rye Coalition: Curses [28.Jun.06]
The Love Letter Band: Fear Not My Brothers Fear Not My Sisters, for I Have Seen the Future [15.Jun.06]
Maritime: We, The Vehicles [14.Jun.06]
The Dan Band: The Dan Band Live [18.May.06]
Caroline: Murmurs [16.May.06]
The Black Heart Procession: The Spell [9.May.06]
Victory at Sea: All Your Things Are Gone [3.May.06]
Part Chimp: I Am Come [28.Apr.06]
Built to Spill: You in Reverse [19.Apr.06]
13ghosts: Cicada [18.Apr.06]
Puerto Muerto: Songs of Muerto County [7.Apr.06]
Bound Stems: The Logic of Building the Body Plan [27.Mar.06]
Ester Drang: Rocinate [22.Mar.06]
Corm: Audio Flame Kit [17.Mar.06]
Metal Hearts: Socialize [13.Mar.06]
Nina Simone: Sings the Blues and others [16.Feb.06]
Ruins: Pallaschtom [9.Feb.06]
Desert City Soundtrack: Perfect Addiction [2.Feb.06]
The Strokes: First Impressions of Earth [3.Jan.06]
Lightning Bolt: Hypermagic Mountain [23.Dec.05]
Embrace Today: We Are the Enemy [22.Dec.05]
Faunts: High Expectations/Low Results [21.Dec.05]
Make Believe: Shock of Being [20.Dec.05]
Holy Fuck: Holy Fuck [8.Dec.05]
Phosphorescent: Aw Come Aw Wry [8.Dec.05]
Mi and L'au: Mi and L'au [29.Nov.05]
31Knots: Talk Like Blood [28.Nov.05]
The Narrator: Such Triumph [22.Nov.05]
The Life and Times: Suburban Hymns [18.Nov.05]
Bonnie "Prince" Billy: Summer in the Southeast [15.Nov.05]
Some Girls: The DNA Will Have Its Say [31.Oct.05]
Pop Montréal: Day 4 Featuring Oxford Collapse, Alan Astor, Holy Fuck, Subtitle, and Islands (Ex [24.Oct.05]
Pop Montréal: Day 2 and 3 Featuring Antony and The Johnsons, CocoRosie, The Forms, and Big Bear [21.Oct.05]
Pop Montréal: Kickoff and Day 1: Featuring Annie, Telefauna, Kickers, Tommorow's Friends, and E [20.Oct.05]
Nina Simone: The Soul of Nina Simone [20.Oct.05]
M83: M83 [19.Oct.05]
Animal Collective: Feels [17.Oct.05]
Charlottefield: How Long Are You Staying [4.Oct.05]
Motion City Soundtrack: Commit This to Memory [28.Sep.05]
Hanne Hukkelberg: Little Things [2.Sep.05]
Minotaur Shock: Maritime [1.Sep.05]
Above This Fire: In Perspective [1.Aug.05]
Settlefish: The Plural of the Choir [28.Jul.05]
Need New Body: Where's Black Ben? [8.Jul.05]
Youth Group: Skeleton Jar [5.Jul.05]
Shipping News: Flies the Fields [1.Jul.05]
Darediablo: Twenty Paces [28.Jun.05]
Ruins: Vrresto [remastered] [23.Jun.05]
Cartel: The Ransom EP [22.Jun.05]
Shout Out Louds: Howl Howl Gaff Gaff [17.Jun.05]
Various Artists: Bonnaroo Music Festival 2004 [13.Jun.05]
Summer at Shatter Creek: All the Answers [9.Jun.05]
Around the Bend (2004) [24.May.05]
The Big Town (1987) [23.May.05]
Volcano High (2001) [13.May.05]
Tim Kinsella: Crucifix Swastika [21.Apr.05]
Blue Merle: Burning in the Sun [19.Apr.05]
Dolls (2002) [18.Apr.05]
6ixtynin9 (Ruang talok 69) (1999) [14.Apr.05]
Point Line Plane: Smoke Signals [13.Apr.05]
The Black Maria: Lead Us to Reason [11.Apr.05]
Bars: Introducing... [28.Mar.05]
I Am a Promise (1993) [23.Mar.05]
Red Eyed Legends: Mutual Insignificance [23.Mar.05]
Thunderbirds Are Now!: Justamustache [21.Mar.05]
Jesu: Jesu [18.Mar.05]
The Flesh: The Flesh [14.Mar.05]
Hanalei: We Are All Natural Disasters [4.Mar.05]
Nine Good Teeth (2003) [24.Feb.05]
A New Kind of Love (1963) [7.Feb.05]
Anadivine: Zoo [4.Feb.05]
Headlights: The Enemies EP [27.Jan.05]
Wetherby (1985) [26.Jan.05]
Elevator Division: Years [26.Jan.05]
The Girl From Paris (2001) [17.Jan.05]
S: Puking and Crying [14.Jan.05]
Call Me Lightning: The Trouble We're In [11.Jan.05]
How to Steal a Million (1966) [3.Jan.05]
Various Artists: Homesick Vol. 1 [DVD] [28.Dec.04]
The Break: Handbook for the Hopeless [17.Dec.04]
Reeve Oliver: self-titled [16.Dec.04]
The Clearing (2004) [29.Nov.04]
Amanda Woodward: La Decadence de la Decadence [29.Nov.04]
The Hebrew Hammer (2003) [24.Nov.04]
Endicott: The Words in Ink Don't Lie [19.Nov.04]
Various Artists: Song of the Silent Land [12.Nov.04]
Mulholland Falls (1996) [8.Nov.04]
Scatter the Ashes: Devout/The Modern Hymn [5.Nov.04]
Walking Tall (2004) [1.Nov.04]
Son, Ambulance: Key [27.Oct.04]
Free Moral Agents: Everybody's Favorite Weapon [20.Oct.04]
NormanOak: Born a Black Diamond [8.Oct.04]
Horns of Happiness: A Sea As a Shore [7.Oct.04]
Timewellspent: self-titled [4.Oct.04]
Time in Malta: Alone With the Alone [30.Sep.04]
Down to Earth Approach: Another Intervention [24.Sep.04]
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Eighteen Visions: Obsession [15.Sep.04]
Pink Grease: This Is for Real [13.Sep.04]
Tara Jane O'Neil: You Sound, Reflect [10.Sep.04]
Ray Charles: Genius Loves Company [1.Sep.04]
Clair De Lune: Marionettes [26.Aug.04]
Gorge Trio: Open Mouth, O Wisp [13.Aug.04]
Black Cat Music: October, November [10.Aug.04]
Rhythm of Black Lines: Human Hand, Animal Band [29.Jul.04]
The One AM Radio: A Name Writ in Water [20.Jul.04]
Atom and His Package: Hair: Debatable [21.Jun.04]
Puerto Muerto: See You in Hell [21.Jun.04]
Rob Crow: My Room Is a Mess [14.Jun.04]
Eszter Balint: Mud [20.May.04]
Devendra Banhart: Rejoicing in the Hands [19.May.04]
The Beautiful Mistake: This Is Who You Are [5.May.04]
Decahedron: Disconnection Imminent [21.Apr.04]
Haymarket Riot: Mog [16.Apr.04]
The Standard: Wire Post to Wire [15.Apr.04]
Elf Power: Walking with the Beggar Boys [14.Apr.04]
Desert City Soundtrack: Funeral Car [22.Mar.04]
From Ashes Rise: Nightmares [19.Mar.04]
Young People: War Prayers [15.Mar.04]
Abba: Gold [DVD] [15.Mar.04]
Soiled Doves: Soiled Life [3.Mar.04]
Sunshine: Necromance [27.Feb.04]
Darediablo: Feeding Frenzy [27.Feb.04]
Chromatics: Plaster Hounds [16.Feb.04]
The Bloodthirsty Lovers: self-titled [27.Jan.04]
Small Brown Bike: The River Bed [7.Jan.04]
The Three 4 Tens: Taking Northern Liberties [6.Jan.04]
Kid Dynamite: Cheap Shots, Youth Anthems [19.Dec.03]
Fun Lovin' Criminals: Welcome to Poppy's [11.Dec.03]
The Pleased: Don't Make Things [9.Dec.03]
Ghosts & Vodka: Addicts and Drunks [4.Dec.03]
Portastatic: Autumn Was a Lark [21.Nov.03]
The Lucksmiths: A Little Distraction [11.Nov.03]
Guns 'N Roses: Welcome to the Videos [DVD] [27.Oct.03]
The Fire Theft: self-titled [22.Oct.03]
The Forms: Icarus [17.Oct.03]
The Buttless Chaps: Love This Time [8.Jan.03]
