Features
Wednesday, January 19 2011
Part 3: From Perfume Genius to Xiu Xiu
Slipped Discs continues with the return of a legendary power pop band, previously unreleased Springsteen gems, the resurrection of '60s British folk rock sounds, loads of indie rockers and many more. All records that missed our top 70 list last year.
Friday, December 24 2010
The 60 Best Songs of 2010
Sixty slices of musical greatness highlighted by one of the most delightful expletive-ridden hits in pop music history.
Reviews
Monday, November 8 2010
Liz Phair: Funstyle
Breaking out from the more structured (ok, downright rigid) pop of her past two albums, Liz Phair raps, chants, and bites back on her best effort since the '90s.
Wednesday, July 28 2010
Liz Phair: Funstyle
Liz Phair surprises many with her self-released sixth album Funstyle, especially because it’s a lot better than most give it credit for.
Monday, July 21 2008
Liz Phair: Exile in Guyville
Liz Phair's smart, daring, vulnerable, sexy, iconic debut album of DIY indie rock and next-gen feminism is remastered and appended with a few mediocre bonus tracks and a mixed-bag DVD documentary.
Monday, July 7 2008
Liz Phair
The only way to have approached this show was in the exact manner that Liz Phair delivered it; a detached celebration of an album that leaves its indelible mark on those who listen, regardless of time, or criticism, or who Liz Phair was then, is now, or will be in 15 more years.
Tuesday, October 25 2005
Liz Phair: Somebody's Miracle
Liz returns from her experiment in mainstream pop with another mainstream pop record. She's as catchy and as banal as ever.
Blogs
Monday, June 10 2013
Strange Loops: Liz Phair – "Canary"
“Canary”, the eighth track on Liz Phair’s Exile in Guyville, and in many ways the album’s most significant thematic and tonal turning point, makes a strong case for why a musician -- especially one with as sharp a gift for word play as Phair -- need always publicly publish her official lyrics.
Monday, June 3 2013
Strange Loops: Liz Phair – "Soap Star Joe" / "Explain It to Me"
If we’re to properly consider “Explain It to Me”, one of the most beloved tracks on Liz Phair’s Exile in Guyville, we must put it into relationship with its preceding number, “Soap Star Joe”, an oft-forgotten, discordant ditty that has all the charm and seriousness of a spaghetti western.
Tuesday, May 28 2013
Strange Loops: Liz Phair – "Never Said"
It’s only fitting then that “Never Said”, the lead single from Exile in Guyville and the track ostensibly chosen to introduce Liz Phair to the world, would be a song where she repeatedly, defensively, and sometimes unconvincingly swears that she “never said nothing”.
Monday, May 20 2013
Strange Loops: Liz Phair - “Dance of the Seven Veils”
From knocking indie music scene bad boys, to riffing on the tales of Salome and John the Baptist, to re-appropriating the most taboo of anatomical vulgarities, “Dance of the Seven Veils” is a testament to the cunning complexities of Liz Phair’s composer mind.
Monday, May 13 2013
Strange Loops: Liz Phair – "Help Me Mary"/ "Glory"
This week's installment of Between the Grooves' journey to Guyville takes a deeper look at the brilliant sequencing of "Help Me Mary" and "Glory", the former's uncommon, spite-work prayer segueing masterfully into the spiritual and sexual awakening of the latter.
