by Greg | Oct 16, 2012 | Album Reviews, Artist News
Oh boy. The moment the blogosphere erupted with the news that Death Cab For Cutie's Ben Gibbard and lovable actress Zooey Deschanel, America's foremost indie-pop power-couple, had split up, we knew it'd be coming. Former Lives is every bit the wistful...
by Greg | Oct 9, 2012 | Album Reviews, Artist News
Mumford and Sons, from out of absolutely nowhere, have positioned themselves as cultural touchstones. While the band recalls turn-of-the-century bluegrass and anything else ever described as High and Lonesome, they are remarkably forward-thinking about the past. The...
by Greg | Jun 25, 2012 | Album Reviews, Artist News
Growing up is a difficult thing for anyone, least of all an artist like Fiona Apple. She's made a (reluctant) career of being an angst-ridden perpetual-teen weirdo. In the six years since Extraordinary Machine, has Fiona taken the Tori Amos ride into irrelevant...
by Greg | Jun 18, 2012 | Album Reviews, Artist News
Inspired by a newfound love for South African music, Paul Simon took the journey of a lifetime to a recording studio in a nation gripped by Apartheid, bringing back to New York the puzzle pieces of what turned out to be his masterpiece. The 25th anniversary edition of...
by Greg | Jun 14, 2012 | Album Reviews, Artist News
Electronic music used to be fun. At pretty much the exact moment Radiohead started making it, everyone forgot that dance music only ever existed as a soundtrack to unspeakable fun. What started as a campy reaction to the dominant arena rock of the 70s begat a whole...
by Greg | Jun 3, 2012 | Album Reviews, Artist News
Watching the seminal Don Letts documentary The Punk Rock Movie, it's pretty immediately apparent that John Lydon and the rest of the original UK punk bands were as much influenced by Jamaican dub reggae as anything coming out of New York. Super-8 footage of The...
