Features
Thursday, January 22 2009
Part 2: Katzenjammer to Xiu Xiu
From Katzenjammer to Xiu Xiu, PopMatters presents our second batch of Slipped Discs, 40 great albums that didn't quite make our year-end list in 2008, but our writers thought belonged there.
Saturday, December 23 2006
Best Albums of 2006
At long last, the annual rite of passage, the "best of" list... Here's PopMatters picks for the best 60 records of 2006.
Wednesday, December 20 2006
Best Singer/Songwriter Albums of 2006
Dry lyrical wit, verbal playfulness, and somber epiphanies for the reluctantly mature: they're all part of Michael Metivier's best singer/songwriter albums of the year.
Reviews
Monday, October 6 2008
Lambchop: OH (ohio)
This might be the best country record of 2008. Or maybe it's the best soul record of 2008. Or the best folk record. Who knows? Lambchop has never cared much for genres.
Wednesday, August 30 2006
Lambchop: Damaged
Lambchop have long been one of America's greatest bands, and Damaged is their greatest achievement.
Friday, July 21 2006
Lambchop: The Decline of Country & Western Civilization Part II: The Woodwind Years
Aside from the occasional clunker, this album of b-sides, rarities, alternate takes, and unreleased tracks shows that Lambchop should be remembered primarily as a fine alt.country community, not some sock the late Shari Lewis wore on her hand.
Friday, February 27 2004
Lambchop: Aw Cmon / No You Cmon
It took some guts, but Kurt Wagner's confidence in his wealth of material has yielded two of Lambchop's strongest albums to date, and the band has regained the form they showed in the late '90s and 2000.
