album reviews

Jucifer has managed to accomplish something that few bands surviving 20 years do, and that's to slowly build on their sound with each release...

ok, to begin with, i like r. kelly. which is, in and of itself, a tricky and vaguely contentious thing to write or say in public. but i do.

I’ve got to say it’s a thang of beauty, this new 7 Days of Funk LP. Dâm-Funk and Snoopzilla are the new keepers of the funky flame. They have gone...

Xiu Xiu leader Jamie Stewart finds himself walking along a boardwalk during the twilight hour next to Nina Simone, perhaps in a dream.

This is an essay about Kate Nash's Christmas EP Have Faith with Kate Nash This Christmas, but let me first take a moment to tell you about...

There’s no longer a monolithic mass culture in America. The old “melting pot” where Americans tried to blend together into a soup has been replaced...

Here’s a thought: Simon Cowell is to contemporary music what antibiotic-resistant gonorrhea is to the ecstasy of romantic love. Or: Simon Cowell is...

The Christmas album, now a great, hoary tradition like fruitcake, crackers and that Jean Shepherd story, has been fueled by years of stabs by great...

Bad Religion has been a punk band since, roughly, the beginning of existence. In Gnostic religions when the Monad, the mind of God, first became...

Black Flag is my favorite band ever. In their sound, their work ethic, and their attitude towards the outside world they have embodied everything...

Devonté Hynes is an octopus. I mean this kindly. I mean it in the sense that the London-born, New York-based artist has created more in his 27...

In my (relatively) short lifetime of cultural awareness, I've witnessed a (relatively) massive evolution of pop music. My first taste of true love...