album reviews

Every few years, someone will start a debate about what punk really is. Most recently, this debate was sparked by a Seattle Weekly piece...

I like records that take me on some kind of journey, music that makes me forget about everything else and that I can lose myself in. Around...

About six months ago, the Oakland Metro opera house hosted the Subversion Vol. 1 festival. I was unable to attend any of the three-day festivities...

The Legendary Pink Dots' 2010 album Seconds Late for the Brighton Line was the first album I ever pre-ordered online. The package...

There is a longstanding tradition in counterculture music of naming your band something so off-putting or so inane that it dares the world to dis...

Is there anything Joss Whedon can't do? He's a phenomenally successful director and screenwriter with gigantic films and TV shows like...

I wanna love this because I love David Lynch, and if I could just relax for 40 minutes, dammit, I would. Music is purity and pleasure and those...

I don’t wish to write about this great record from the perspective of an old man, nor from the point of view of a younger version of myself. I wish...

Daughn Gibson's music is most notable for how it melds sounds rooted in the recent past with those from the not-so-distant future. We live in a...

British producer/DJ Eric Lau just put out a new album called One of Many, and I’m telling y’all this is some smoothed-out ish right here...

The backstory of Ciara's fifth, self-titled album is a twisted tale, but here's what you need to know: Ciara was signed by LA Reid to LaFace...