On November 2, 2010 Kill Rock Stars released An Introduction to… Elliott Smith on CD and 180 gram vinyl. This album features 14 tracks compiled from [...]

As far as I’m concerned, you really couldn’t construct a bad compilation of Elliott Smith songs. In his all-too-short career he produced consistent examples of [...]

Synthetic Cinema International 85 min., dir. by Andrew Gernhard, with Kevin Shea, Sarah J. Ahearn, and Greg Nutcher I’ll admit that, upon first seeing the [...]

Les Savy Fav is like if Blink 182 went to art school. Before all of Les Savy Fav’s fans get up in arms — I [...]

I always enjoy a single where the B-side steals attention. Here on the new O’ Pioneers/Junior Battles split seven-inch, both artists blaze similar trails, but [...]

If the Senders’ new EP, Recovery, proves anything, it’s that they are a genre band. Safe in their cocoon of emo aggression, there is nothing [...]

Teenage Fanclub play a sound that could be dangerously outdated. Sounding like The Shins (and, therefore, The Beach Boys somewhat) meet The Smiths, they are [...]

Insects Vs. Robots make it a lot easier to like them than it could have been. Their 10-minute-plus psychedelic jams could be the very worst [...]

I’ve always been aware of the existence of The New Pornographers, but year after year they have slipped under my radar; pushed aside in favor [...]

Holy Fuck’s band name lends itself to an easy enthusiastic review. Sort of like the film Kick-Ass, it’s a fine line that must be walked [...]

Rock Action Records 54 min., dir. by Vincent Moon and Nathanael Le Scouarnac I’ve always enjoyed Mogwai, but I have to confess that up until [...]

Swiss Dots 54 min., dir. by Danny Perez One has to have affection for a film that doesn’t overstay its welcome. This is especially dangerous [...]

A couple tracks into Efterklang’s newest album, Magic Chairs, I was ready to write them off as a pseudo-Arcade Fire rip-off band. It’s easy criticism. [...]

Music comes quite naturally to Jen Olive — if one thing is apparent on her debut album, it is that. I’m always in awe of [...]

The old adage of not judging a book by its cover has rarely held more true than here on Paper the Operator’s first full-length, Goodbye [...]