Friday, April 26 2013
All That Turns to Gold: The Post-Punk Alchemy of My Gold Mask!
Chicago's artfully embellished trio My Gold Mask deliver style, panache, and otherworldy grooves with eerie ease.
Tuesday, April 2 2013
Parquet Courts: Light Up Gold
For Parquet Courts, "slacker" isn't just a lifestyle, it's a full-blown worldview and in Light Up Gold, they play like revolutionaries.
Monday, September 10 2012
Endless Nights and Savage Angels: Henry James and Walt Whitman’s New York Cityscapes
New York is a symbol that claws its way into the core of stories. It's never just a set piece, never just a grid of architecture. It's a city of multitudes, madness, and muddied values.
Wednesday, October 5 2011
The Bandana Splits: Mr. Sam Presents the Bandana Splits
In many ways, the last few years have been defined by pop-culture throwbacks. Now Brooklyn’s Bandana Splits arrive to provide their spin on 50s and 60s bubblegum pop and doo-wop. The result is a respectable diversion, reviving, but not innovating, the genre.
Wednesday, September 28 2011
The Sweetheart Sisters: Looking for a Fight
Those songs are meant to have an edge. Do Brooklynites really not understand the meaning of "snarky"?
Monday, September 26 2011
Brooklyn Singer-Songwriter Argyle Johansen Showcases Psychedelic Folk
Like a cross between Vandaveer, the Decemberists and Sufjan Stevens, Brooklyn songwriter Argyle Johansen [a.k.a. John F. Wentz] hammers his way into your ears with the multi-layered textures from Inner Demo(n)s, his latest album.
Clap Your Hands Say Yeah: Hysterical
The folkloric Brooklyn band of indie rock fame return almost five years later with their third and most cohesive LP.
Monday, September 12 2011
Gabriel Miller Phillips: One for the Crow
Lackluster compared to other indie releases coming straight out of Brooklyn.
Thursday, August 11 2011
Oneida: Absolute II
Those curious about mood music that upends one's emotions rather than calming them down may welcome this shambling trip into interstellar breakdown, rather than overdrive.
Friday, July 1 2011
Talib Kweli: 21 June 2011 - Brooklyn
A chilled out, inaugural summer evening in the park was led by Talib Kweli.
