album reviews

Like Sarah Records, anoraks and the oft-cited but mostly misremembered NME mixtape C86, the Pastels have become shorthand for something...

The elephant in the room: Surfer Blood leader John Paul Pitts’ 2012 domestic battery charges.

Anvil didn’t really come onto my radar until the documentary The Story of Anvil came out in 2008. I remember seeing their name in the...

For the past 20 years, throughout my continuing course as a rock & roll drummer, my paramount aspiration has been to get through to someone — to...

Even though it’s kind of lazy and wishful to seize on an opening line to confer an overarching thematic intention on an album, it’s hard not to be...

I've been waiting for this album for quite some time. The first Mount Kimbie album, 2010's Crooks & Lovers, made quite an impression...

I first listened to Future Bible Heroes' new record Partygoing on the tube from Heathrow Airport into central London after an overnight...

Summer of 1968, I’m a kid visiting my dad’s family in west Texas. One day, my 16-year-old cousin KJ holed up in his room for hours listening to...

I love my job. When I'm not raking in the big bucks writing about music for the Talkhouse, I'm usually on tour, hopping across the globe and...

When I was in ninth grade, I had a pink lava lamp set up in my closet that illuminated the small walls with curvy color and atmosphere. The nearly...

I remember the spring I turned 18, when the universe seemed to be opening up to let me in, and, at the same time, making sure I knew I couldn’t go...

Not even halfway through the first song, and a dense wave of nostalgia runs down my spine. Oh Tricky, how you remind me of being a bitter backwoods...