Mar 12th 6 Comments
You have to have a lot of balls to cover My Bloody Valentine, a band nobody's ever going to match guitar swirl-for-guitar swirl. The Canadian singer Rachel Zeffira has that. But in her take on "To… Read Story »
Mar 5th 33 Comments
Some weeks, a simple and clear choice for Album Of The Week presents itself, and I don't have to spend all week racking my brains over who should get this entirely arbitrary distinction. That doesn't… Read Story »
Feb 26th 20 Comments
Interesting things are happening in R&B lately, with guys like Frank Ocean and Miguel and the Weeknd pushing the genre in directions both introspective and sonically expansive, somehow getting… Read Story »
Feb 19th 19 Comments
Even when he was a fresh-faced punk, Nick Cave never sounded like a fresh-faced punk. Back on those Birthday Party records, he sounded like a wizened, apocalyptic rage-prophet. And over the course of… Read Story »
Feb 12th 21 Comments
Before I dug deep into Honeys, the new album from the feral Allentown scrape-rockers Pissed Jeans, I had this whole opening-paragraph riff planned about Sub Pop Records: How the label has gone… Read Story »
Feb 5th 180 Comments
In the October 2012 issue of Esquire, there's a fascinating profile of the magician Teller -- the silent half of Penn & Teller -- at the center of which is the story of how a magician named Bakardy… Read Story »
Jan 29th 10 Comments
In 2010, back when they were still a duo called Reading Rainbow, the Philadelphia band Bleeding Rainbow released Prism Eyes, exactly the sort of very good indie rock album that gets overlooked all… Read Story »
Jan 22nd 39 Comments
Toro Y Moi was once associated with the electronic pop subgenre and short cultural moment known as chillwave. There. That's done. As far as I'm concerned -- and I seem to be the only critic who… Read Story »
Jan 15th 72 Comments
Rock critics aren't really expected to be forecasters of popular taste. And thank fuck for that, because I'm goddam terrible at it. The one time I ever wrote anything for Gawker, here's what I told… Read Story »
Jan 8th 33 Comments
St. Patrick's Day 2001, I'm shipping back up to Syracuse, back to school after a spring break spent doing nothing but playing Wrestlemania 2000 on the Nintendo 64 and drinking with my friends in… Read Story »
