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Music
Thursday, July 9 2009
By Timothy Gabriele
Bibio reinvents himself as a number of different people -- Neil Young, J Dilla, Ariel Pink, bands named after animals -- but retains a thematic proximity to the idea of the persistence of memory.
By Adrien Begrand
If this is indeed Voivod's final album, you couldn't ask for a finer way to cap off a sterling career.
By Justin Cober-Lake
Taylor's best record in about half a decade, and a memorable development in his sound.
By Daniel Rivera
Former face of The Distillers exudes a blending of confidence and vulnerablity on this flawed debut.
By Lana Cooper
Method and Red don't recapture lightning in a bottle, but Blackout! 2 gives their patient fans a solid disc of party anthems ten years later.
By Timothy Gabriele
Wolfgang Voigt compiles a series of 12”s that were barely recorded at all.
Wednesday, July 8 2009
By Mike Schiller
It sounds a lot like Play again, sure, but ten years older, wiser, and more exhausted in the best possible way.
By Michael Metivier
Overall, as delightful as Helm’s 2007 comeback was, Electric Dirt feels like even more cause for celebration.
By Matthew Fiander
If desire was a bone poking through the skin on their last album, here it is a coating of slick sweat over the body, making for a sweetly tiring listen, as these songs pull you into their world and make you work their dusty land.
By Ian Mathers
Drum-and-bass classic goes under the knife at the hands of its maker and emerges in potent, stripped down form -- but boy, are the fans going to be pissed.
By Ron Hart
NYC's intrepid trio revert back to the adventurousness of their first three years on Blue Note with the second installment of their acclaimed Radiolarians series.
By Andrew Gilstrap
In true Malone style, Debris doesn't back off.
Tuesday, July 7 2009
By Emily Tartanella
Florence and the Machine deliver a stunning debut in the wake of overwhelming expectations.
By Matthew Fiander
Cage is starting to move away from his past and out into the world on Depart From Me, but he's just not quite there yet.
By Steve Horowitz
In the voice of a talent like Joplin in concert, music is different. It’s redemption, salvation, deliverance, release, and emancipation all at once.
By Matt Gonzales
Amazing, baby? Not quite.
By Deanne Sole
Aocaná seems to me softer than their past work, more laid-back, with less scratching and fewer u-turns.
By Chris Catania
Heavyweight Dub Champion’s sophomore album is the socially conscience sequel that leads the listener towards a spiritual revolution.
Monday, July 6 2009
By Matthew Fiander
There is a timely resilience to this record, and Son Volt deliver it with energy, but they just don't take that earnest country feel as far as it could go.
By Charles A. Hohman
Deer Tick's boozy and bloozy sophomore album finds no future in America's present, and a troublesome comfort in America's past.
By Andrew Martin
This might be a "good" record by comparison, but it just doesn't stack up to Dilla's impressive legacy.
By Dan Raper
Phoenix's mixtape for a hip French dance label is not what you'd expect at all.
By Estella Hung
It may sound esoteric on paper, but Spyro's Biodegradable is ineffably digestable for both soma and soul.
By Erin Lyndal Martin
There's plenty of beauty in this Beast.
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By Juli Thanki
With her honorary doctorate in hand, here's hoping she'll next broker peace in the Middle East, repair the economy, and explain the twisted plotlines of 'Lost' -- Lord knows, the woman is capable.
(more Torch & Twang)
Friday, June 26 2009
By Bob Proehl
Wilco’s Jeff Tweedy may have left country behind, but in 1992, he helped redefine the sound of alt-country.
(more Pickin' Down the Line)
Monday, June 22 2009
By Derek Beres
Six spectacular world beat albums that will have you dancing through those sweet summer nights.
(more Global Beat Fusion)
Thursday, July 9 2009
By Rory O'Connor
Watching the Sadies live is like bearing witness to a tornado, a sort of freak of nature that pays no mind to its surroundings in forging a path.
Wednesday, July 8 2009
By Sarah Moore
I hate to say it, but it seemed like he was just going through the motions. But for many people, that’s just fine.
Tuesday, July 7 2009
By Kirby Fields
I described Elvis Perkins as “part Andrew Bird, part Arcade Fire, part Rufus Wainwright, part Leonard Cohen, part Dylan, and all good”, but this catchall fails to account for his periodic spurts of beer-hall charm.
Monday, July 6 2009
By Rachel Brodsky
As the debate wore on, the questions grew more prodding, the responses fiercer (complete with finger pointing), and the audience more aggravated than ever.
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Monday, July 6 2009
By Stuart Henderson
This was the moment that the Beatles broke up. It's tough to watch footage from that night as anything other than the beginning of the long denouement to an epic story.
Friday, June 19 2009
By Adrien Begrand
Only Iron Maiden could pull a world tour like this off. The ecstatic reactions from India, to Australia, to Japan, to Central and South America, to Canada are all essentially the same the world over.
Wednesday, June 10 2009
By Stephen Snart
The second disc is a keeper; the first, flick it out an open window and watch it fly.
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