Only The Lonely Know The Glow Is Failing
Do the Last Sound count as veterans now? Any band that survived the Dublin underground with the same identity for this long surely does. This 7″/digital single is like much
Adz Future: Sufjan Stevens Interview
In the pantheon of musicians making Big American Music, Sufjan Stevens might be counted as an analog to Jonathan Franzen in literature. A couple of formative early records (A Sun
Paul Simon – So Beautiful Or So What
Embracing a “world” sensibility as Simon has during his solo career is the kind of play that can fall flat on its face badly if done wrong. SBOSW doesn’t set
Fleet Foxes – Helplessness Blues
Sometimes a band can just practically repeat its first album, like Room On Fire followed Is This It, and it still just works. Helplessness Blues is that kind of record.
Panda Bear – Tomboy
Like knowing the sex of the baby after the first ultrasound, Panda Bear’s combination of (oft-bootlegged) live sets of new material and drip-drab release of 7″ singles over the last
Chipmunk – Transition
For all the Guardianista pride in London grime/rap/R&B’s rise to mainstream dominance in the UK, and an increasing amount of attention from the already over-subscribed American market, the Genre Formerly
Katy B – On A Mission
There is something about Katy B that makes her incredibly likeable. She doesn’t gargle vowels, and she has the same girl-next-door ordinariness about her that Joanne and Susan from The
There Will Be No Blood: Interview with James Wan and Leigh Whannel
Director James Wan and writer Leigh Whannel rose to prominence when they created the seemingly endless and endlessly bloody Saw franchise. Having initially teamed up in their film school days