Apr 16th, 2010 28 Comments
News to no one: A lot's happened since Broken Social Scene released that self-titled career-shifting third album five years ago: There were tours and one-offs (together and apart), solo albums, the…   Read Story »
Apr 13th, 2010 31 Comments
With all the recent track leaks, everyone knows that, yes, This Is Happening. If you trust ecstatic man-on-the-Tweet hyperbole, LCD Soundsystem's third album is the record catapulting James Murphy to…   Read Story »
Mar 21st, 2010 66 Comments
It's easy to discount Ben Goldwasser and Andrew VanWyngarden. The well-coiffed twosome's rise from Wesleyan dorm room to opening slots with Radiohead, a Grammy nomination, the beds of models and…   Read Story »
Mar 12th, 2010 9 Comments
Caribou's nine-song Swim follows his nine-song 2007 Polaris Winning-Andorra. The last one was 42:59. This one's 43:10. Just a quick, statistical way of pointing that that since Dan Snaith founded his…   Read Story »
Mar 3rd, 2010 18 Comments
We've had a chance to hear a few bits from Gorillaz' third album Plastic Beach -- “Stylo” featuring Mos Def and Bobby Womack, the De La Soul and Gruff Rhys-guesting “Superfast Jellyfish”…   Read Story »
Feb 23rd, 2010 44 Comments
Joanna Newsom's always been a storyteller. On 2004's The Milk-Eyed Mender the tales were richly and eccentrically meandering, even if the songs have retrospectively proven to be the most concise and…   Read Story »
Jan 12th, 2010 50 Comments
It was way back in June that Spoon released Got Nuffin, a brief collection that gave us our first taste of Transference via the dusky, percussive rocker that gave the EP its name. A couple of weeks…   Read Story »
Jan 4th, 2010 56 Comments
There's been plenty of pre-release hype, viral and otherwise. You've known the tracklist and backstory for a while. And after hearing "Horchata," "California English" (in two parts), "Cousins," and…   Read Story »
Dec 14th, 2009 99 Comments
When we posted our most anticipated albums of 2010, there was a reason we decided to illustrate it with a Yeasayer thumbnail: It's clear the playful psychedelic Brooklyn group's second full-length…   Read Story »
Nov 20th, 2009 39 Comments
When we meditated on Victoria Legrand and Alex Scally's gorgeous sophomore album Devotion we had the following to say:
[Y]ou can't fall back on Mazzy Star or Galaxie 500 references because they've…   Read Story »




































