album reviews

I once played my son, who is nine, a Durutti Column album and he complained because he didn't like it, and I said, “But it's art" and, being a bit...

I grew up in a weird time: the post-Gen X/pre-Millennial era which (I guess) you could brand Y2K. It was an uncertain decade for many people around...

In 2003, 50 Cent burst into the mainstream with his hugely successful hit song, "In da Club" from his massively popular debut album...

To proceed means “to move along a course” and “to continue to do something.” The Roots proceed: they move forward and continue to push the limit...

What's the difference between a Chrissie Hynde record and a Pretenders record?

I've always seen Robyn as the gateway drug into pop music. She's the kind of singer who can make an anti-pop punk appreciate a melody, or a lo-fi...

For me, punk music has always been very sexual. Whether I’m performing or just listening, it’s all summoned from that sector of my brain. Now, this...

I was introduced to the Donkeys sometime around the release of their 2008 record Living on the Other Side. My friend John Darnielle told me abo

I've been a fan of Bob Mould's music for maybe half as long as he's been making it. In the '80s when we were in junior high, skateboarding and...

At some point in the fall of 2010 I realized that, with the help of the right websites, I could start watching U.K. television in semi-real time.

One month or one year ago — it doesn't really matter now — somewhere and some time — I can't remember — in this late-era at least, in the...

A long time ago, I had the chance to work in a studio where Michael Jackson had recently recorded. The engineers there told me that Michael...