music commentary

While I would love to say that I became aware of the pioneering industrial group VNV Nation through following the Wax Trax! discography from the...

I'm not your typical Xiu Xiu listener — my musical tastes skew towards artists that can temporarily quell my simmering anxiety rather than dredge...

What a tremendous singer Paul Simon is! His rendition of "Biko" ends Scratch My Back... And I'll Scratch Yours, a (now) two-album set of

Hitting "play" and hearing the first strains of Rave Tapes transported me back to September 2010 and Mt. Ezu in Japan, site of Metamorphose...

If, in some strange Desert Island Discs twist of fate, I was told that I was allowed to have only one trait as a musician, I would choose...

When I was a kid, I bought albums based on two sets of criteria: 1) if I knew the band and I’d been waiting patiently for the new release, or 2) on...

I should first begin by admitting that Doug Paisley's 2010 album Constant Companion has been my constant companion. I've heard people talk...

Brothers and Sisters of the Eternal Son is a good name for a record that spins like a top shooting sparks. The production is enormous: lots...

Boyfriend and I were recently discussing what I was writing about for the Talkhouse. I told him Warpaint. He asked me if I liked the band.

I had never heard the Irish artist James Vincent McMorrow before signing on to write about his second album Post Tropical, but I did see...

Halfway through the song “Déjà Vu” on Black Knights' debut Medieval Chamber, the beat abruptly cuts out, and a cavernous tom-tom pushes...

I wonder how Stephen Malkmus feels. For the most part, it's been impossible, really, to get inside his mindset throughout his near quarter-century...