Film School to me has always been like this awesome sweater I bought in Scotland. In that weather it was something I wore everyday, as [...]

So much has already been said about The Flaming Lips’ live shows. It’s a little like the summer of 1999 when all anyone could ask [...]

The Dø, (rhymes with “glow”) named after the first and last notes of the musical scale, recently became the first French act to reach #1 in France with an album sung in English.

Quasi’s American Gong is a solid album. Cinderblock dorm room bookcase solid. There’s not a single track that would make you reach forward to flip [...]

Xiu Xiu are theater people. I haven’t read a line of their bios, but they are — even if they don’t know it. They’re overstated, [...]

There are plenty of reasons other than the Winter Olympics to set your sights on the second-largest country in the world right now. Canadian contributions [...]

Listening to The Chambermaids’ album Down In the Berries is a strange experience for anyone who was a kid when the Athens sound had yet [...]

Yes, you are reading that right. Before I even talk about the music I have to address the elephant in the room that is the [...]

This album has a serious DIY sound and feel. Which doesn’t have to be a bad thing, but in this case sorta is. The Push-Pull [...]

Timber Timbre’s self-titled album is one of those outings that would best be described as the soundtrack to a film that’s yet to be made. [...]

I don’t know if it’s a criticism to say that something Goth-based takes itself too seriously. Waxing melancholy in dark black eyeliner really only plays [...]

I’m one of the biggest fans of the garage rock revival, but it’s a canvas concerned near-exclusively with primary colors. That being said, Zeus plays [...]

The Readnex Poetry Squad’s sound is theatrical, but that’s mostly the slam-lyrical vibe at work. Social Issue is a revolutionary hip-hop album at heart, but [...]

Punk is alive and well. Its board of directors seem to have upper-middleclass backgrounds now, but the music itself moves forward. The voice of rebellion [...]

Inane lyrics over passionless strumming guitar, percussion that is so simplistic it may as well be canned but is impossibly emanating from an actual band [...]