November 17, 2008
I wanted to wait until after the election to see if the outcome of November 4th would negatively affect my adoration for the latest experiment by TV On The Radio. I can dutifully report that America’s recent Hope Infusion does nothing to diminish the power and immediacy of the Brooklyn sound scientists’ newest jittery and […]
September 4, 2008
Apparently Bloc Party are big Radiohead fans, in more ways than one. They’ve adopted the online-album download paradigm that so famously sold huge for last year’s In Rainbows, along with the same piracy-dodging last-minute album announcement. But business aside, they’ve also paralelled their art rocker cousins’ penchant for dabbling with programmed rhythms and sampling. Not […]
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July 2, 2008
Only halfway through the Aught Eight, there are a handful of standout discs I would recommend. There are others in the running, but the following have earned the most play time and mindshare at the halfway point.
British Sea Power, Do You Like Rock Music?
The bravado in the critic-baiting title is equaled only by the rafter-shaking […]
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March 4, 2008
What better way to stick it to the same record execs that dumped Trent Reznor a couple months back (not that he cared much) than to immediately release a sprawling 36-track instrumental album on the Internet? The answer: Twist the knife by giving away the first nine tracks as a free download. As a fan […]
February 22, 2008
First, a bit of explanation. Got the backstory straight? I guarantee you, on multiple listenings you would never ever ever have figured out any of the mythology regarding Ouija boards, the demon Goliath, or anything else resembling a cohesive narrative. Which, to be honest, is never the point of a Mars Volta record. The point […]
