Classic Album Review: The Ataris | End is Forever
This came out in 2001 – or at least that's when I got it. Here’s what I said about it back then (with some minor editing):
Kris Roe is too...
Classic Album Review: Kreidler | Kreidler
This came out in 2001 – or at least that's when I got it. Here’s what I said about it back then (with some minor editing):
Roughly 99% of electronic...
Classic Album Review: Matmos | A Chance to Cut is a Chance to Cure
This came out in 2001 – or at least that's when I got it. Here’s what I said about it back then (with some minor editing):
I’ve heard of tissue...
Classic Album Review: Shipping News | Very Soon, and in Pleasant Company
This came out in 2001 – or at least that's when I got it. Here’s what I said about it back then (with some minor editing):
Yes, the band take...
Classic Album Review: Black Box Recorder | The Facts of Life
This came out in 2001 – or at least that's when I got it. Here’s what I said about it back then (with some minor editing):
Nobody makes gloom and...
Next Week in Music | June 28 – July 4 • The Short List:...
Let's be honest: We all have better things to do next weekend than listen to a ton of new albums. The music gods know that — so most of...
Next Week in Music | June 28 – July 4 • The Long List:...
What a difference a week makes. Especially a week with a major holiday. In contrast to last week's lunacy of 500-plus releases, there are only a paltry 260 new...
Next Week in Music | June 28 – July 4 • New Books
If you plan to spend your long weekend relaxing with a good new book, you've got a few interesting new options. Read all about ’em:
Please Please Tell Me Now:...
Next Week in Music | June 28 – July 4 • On TV
This week is rated R, for Repeat, as most of the American talk-show hosts get an early start on the July 4 holiday. That's the bad news. The good...
RIP Doug Inglis of Goddo
I just read that Goddo drummer Doug Inglis apparently passed away the other day of unspecified causes. That's a shame. He was one of my favourite drummers back in...
Albums Of The Week: 10,000 Years | II
THE EDITED PRESS RELEASE: “Less than a year after their self-titled debut EP, Sweden's 10,000 Years are back with their first full-length effort, aptly titled II. Picking up right...
Albums Of The Week: Island | Yesterday Park
THE EDITED PRESS RELEASE: “Yesterday Park is an album about nostalgia, that feeling of looking back, not to one specific time or place but rather the feeling associated with...
Albums Of The Week: Lightman Jarvis Ecstatic Band | Banned
THE EDITED PRESS RELEASE: “Yves Jarvis and Romy Lightman are a pair of idiosyncratic and restlessly creative artists. Over the past five years, Jarvis’s ever-expanding discography has earned international...
Albums Of The Week: Gaspard Augé | Escapades
THE EDITED PRESS RELEASE: “Gaspard Augé has always created brilliantly lurid musical worlds to get lost in. He is best known as one half of Justice, the duo that...
Albums Of The Week: Matthew Dear | Preacher’s Sigh & Potion: Lost Album
THE EDITED PRESS RELEASE: “More than 20 years into his career, producer/vocalist/songwriter/DJ Matthew Dear remains artistically unpredictable in pursuit of his prescient strain of electronically formed, organically delivered indie-pop....
