album reviews

Silence Yourself, the debut album from the London band Savages, starts off with a vocal sample from the 1977 John Cassavetes film...

Obey the Altar Native, which is a three-man crew out of Arizona consisting of emcees named Obey, Denone, and Ro Ruckus, just put out...

Before I get down to business, describing how and why this record is worth your time, permit to me to gripe that iTunes is implicitly engaged in a...

Making records is tough, making a good record is tougher, making a successful record is highly improbable, repeating the success is damn near...

Sunday mornings hold a unique place in world culture. I say “world culture” because I’ve had the same Sunday morning experience around the world...

The nervous breakdown that’s bubbled just under the surface of the Flaming Lips’ output since 1999’s The Soft Bulletin has arrived, fully...

I thought it’d be fun to review the new Michael Bublé album because I assumed most of it would be tepid pseudo-jazz and I wanted to test my ability...

Can you remember the first time you heard the Beatles? That day should be listed high among life’s momentous occasions — up there with the first...

Once, the Melvins were playing a festival, and the powers that be wanted us to perform right after Iggy and the Stooges. I told them I would rather...

I first heard Phoenix on the 2002 compilation My House in Montmartre, a document of the French house music movement.

The new release by Ghostface Killah and producer/film score composer/record store owner/entertainment law professor Adrian Younge...

Willie Nelson is one of the scant few older country artists with an appreciable heritage who remains commercially viable in 2013, despite little...