Next Week in Music | June 22-28 • The Short List: Five Titles To...
"Freedom of choice is what you got — freedom from choice is what you want." Devo’s immortal words popped into my head when I realized there are more than...
Next Week in Music | June 22-28 • The Long List: 325 Releases On...
Yeah, you read that right. There are more than 325 albums, EPs and singles being released next week. Some are albums that were bumped from the spring. Some are...
Next Week in Music | June 22-28 • New Books
Country icons and Britpop idols, album covers and jazz scenes, the Velvet Underground and a trio of track-by-track tomes: If you need some words to go with your music...
Next Week in Music | June 22-28 • On TV & At The Movies
Your next week of televised music has just four days in it. But hey, better than nothing, right? Especially when those days include performances by Bright Eyes, Phoebe Bridgers,...
Black Devil Disco Club | Lucifer Is a Flower
God may have all the choirs and gospel singers, but Satan still has the best music. Look no further than the latest joints from Black Devil Disco Club (OK,...
Atavist | III: Absolution
Everybody's in a goddamn rush all the time. Everyone except the doom-metal dudes of Atavist, that is. It's been more than 12 years since their last album II: Ruined...
Crooked Heart | Perpetual Twilight
As soon as I punched play on this sucker, the first thought that popped into my noggin was: 'I'll bet my left one that these mofos are a power...
Bad Touch | Kiss the Sky
Music is like food. I try to stick to stuff that's healthy and good for me and ethically produced and organic and all that shit. And most of the...
Thurston Moore’s By The Fire Tops Today’s Album Announcements
When it rains, it pours. And over the past couple of days, the new release announcements have been coming like cats and dogs.
It doesn't help that I've been busy...
Vibration Black Finger | Can You See What I’m Trying to Say
Some jazz albums are recorded. Others are assembled. Can You See What I'm Trying to Say, the sophomore Vibration Black Finger release from London vet Lascelle Lascelles Gordon, deftly...
Animali | Mary D. Kay
Full disclosure: I snagged this one solely because of that wild cover. And can you blame me? Besides, between the face-melting pic and the entropic title pun, I thought...
Baauer | Planet’s Mad
Baauer’s name sure sounds familiar, right? Maybe you recognized it right off the bat, but I'm obviously getting old — for the life of me, I couldn't place him....
Etuk Ubong | Africa Today
What's more impressive than an album that delivers a colourfully dynamic, urgently driving and lyrically topical hybrid of Afrobeat, Highlife and more — as performed by crack band fronted...
Arabs In Aspic | Madness and Magic
Don't get me wrong. I like classic ’70s psyche-prog as much as the next geek. But I like it a little better when it rocks out every now and...
We Versus The Shark | Goodbye Guitar
If you're lucky enough to get a do-over — even a severely belated one — make the most of it. These Athens indie-rockers clearly have. More than a decade...
