Boots Riley is just as pissed off as ever on “Sorry to Bother You”. Check out our review.
Spin Cycle: A.C. Newman, Shut Down the Streets
New Pornographers front man delivers a third solo effort, heads for the woods.
Spin Cycle: Mumford & Sons, Babel
Scottish hitmakers Mumford & Sons are back with another agreeable, hooky collection of stomping folk-rock. How does “Babel” stack up to “Sigh No More”?
Spin Cycle: Band of Horses, Mirage Rock
Band of Horses reign it in and craft a harmonic homage to 70s AM radio on fourth album “Mirage Rock”
Spin Cycle: Alanis Morissette, Havoc and Bright Lights
Alanis Morissette is back with “Havoc and Bright Lights”, her first release since 2008’s “So-Called Chaos”. Popblerd has the review!
Spin Cycle: Pet Shop Boys, Elysium
A quarter century after “West End Girls,” the Pet Shop Boys are still here. Mike A. reviews Neil and Chris’s brand new album Elysium
Spin Cycle: Easy Star All-Stars, Easy Star’s Thrillah
After tackling Radiohead, Pink Floyd, and Beatles records, Easy Star All-Stars give the King of Pop the reggae royalty treatment with Easy Star’s Thrillah. Read our review!
Spin Cycle: Yeasayer, Fragrant World
Yeasayer’s third album is filled with both fruitful and fruitless twists and turns. Popblerd’s KBOX attempts aural navigation in his review of Fragrant World.
Spin Cycle: Glen Hansard, Rhythm and Repose
Glen Hansard, of Swell Season, The Frames, and Once fame, lends his soulful brogue to an all-new set of tunes on his first solo record, “Rhythm and Repose”.
Spin Cycle: The Tallest Man On Earth, There’s No Leaving Now
Beset by not-entirely-off-base Dylan comparisons since his debut dropped, Swedish folkie Kristian Matsson (stage name: The Tallest Man On Earth) is operating under the small-ish genre umbrella of indie folk, a lovely little haven where performers live and die by the strength of their songs, where rugged baritones and rambling napkin poetry are the order of the day, where boredom is uncomfortably easy to attain if you’re not careful. Fortunately for Matsson, he’s got the goods – “the goods”, in […]
Spin Cycle: Motion City Soundtrack, Go
An early summer night in 2008. Boy scoops girl up in battered Grand Am. A tentative, innocent kiss. “Where to,” he asks? “Let’s just drive. I finished your mix!” She smiles, handing him a slim disc case. There are graphics, a tracklisting, liner notes. My kinda girl, he thinks to himself. He scans the tracklist: Counting Crows, Deborah Cox, Motion City Soundtrack, Evanescence. He slips the disc into the player, willing to forgive the Evanescence in lieu of the sheer […]