album reviews

I always buy the new Doctor Who soundtrack releases, very much including the newly released Doctor Who: Series 7. It's my favourite...

A good friend of mine grew up attending punk and hardcore shows in southern California in the '90s. He’s got a ton of great stories, but one that...

In the middle of some summer during my pasty, ornery adolescence, my dad threatened to throw the book I was reading straight into the pool.

I like singles bands, bands that are more noteworthy for strings of arresting tracks than they are noteworthy for albums. Here are some bands, in...

"Don't be ashamed to weep; 'tis right to grieve. Tears are only water, and flowers, trees, and fruit cannot grow without water. But there must be...

I write fan letters to record labels. In the way that my pal Sean Doyle writes to poets and essayists he admires, just to let them know that they...

Embers in the burning sky linger, flirting in shadow. Remnants of a battle forever cycling beneath a blackened sun sigh in the wind’s…

Franz Ferdinand came from nowhere, or so it seemed. Most of the band had been around Glasgow in bands for an age, or worked in venues doing sound...

Let’s get this out of the way: I don’t know how to review music. I could say “I love it!” or “It sounds angry like a blender!” But is that helpful...

Some folks like to take a little time each day to remind themselves what they’re grateful for. As for me, I am grateful for the electric guitar...

A couple of weeks ago on a hot, sunny day in Oslo — a modest, modern city of 600,000 souls and, on that particular day, myself — I woke up feeling...

The most striking part of Versions, the new album from Nika Roza Danilova, aka Zola Jesus, isn’t the presence of a string quartet or the...