The Beths: Future Me Hates Me January 18, 2019Look, man, I can’t be all punk all of the time. In fact, as I age I’m getting...
Interpol: Marauder January 17, 2019I will say with complete certitude that this is the last Interpol album I will ever review. They...
Restorations: LP5000 January 7, 2019At only seven tracks, calling this an LP is kind of a stretch. In fact, I’m not even...
Cloud Nothings: Last Building Burning January 4, 2019The dark-ass cover of this album, Last Building Burning, kind of sums up the band’s current direction. It’s...
Belly: DOVE December 31, 2018I have to start by saying that I absolutely hate this cover. It looks like some pseudo hippy...
Car Seat Headrest: Twin Fantasy December 20, 2018I’ve been a fan of Car Seat Headrest in the past and continue to be up to and...
Art Brut: Wham! Bang! Pow! Let’s Rock Out! December 13, 2018Wow, talk about polarizing. Art Brut would make at least 80% of the US population eat a vat...
Bat Fangs: Bat Fangs November 28, 2018For five-and-a-half seconds of the first track on this album, “Turn It Up,” I thought I accidentally put...
IDLES: Joy as an Act of Resistance. November 20, 2018To describe IDLES is to describe a rugby scrum. You’re looking right at it, but you’re still confused...
Antarctigo Vespucci: Love in the Time of E-Mail November 13, 2018From note one I swear I thought this was a Daniel Johnston album. Not the least of which...
Swearin’: Fall Into the Sun November 12, 2018There’s something warm and inviting about boy/girl singing. Even if it’s not at the same time. Like Blake...
The Dead Milkmen: Eat Your Paisley! October 26, 2018I know this isn’t the “classic” album that Big Lizard In My Backyard is. You know, that album...
Logic @ MSG & NF @ Terminal 5 October 19, 2018Look, I realize it’s ridiculous that I was at either of these concerts. There probably isn’t a person...
The Dirty Nil: Master Volume October 14, 2018Rock and fuckin’ roll, man! Like the stuff they used to play at stadiums before pop and hip-hop...
Retirement Party: Somewhat Literate September 26, 2018If Daria, the MTV cartoon from the 90s, started a band, this might be it. It’s a little...
Big Red Machine: Big Red Machine September 12, 2018Imagine, if you will, TV On The Radio on quaaludes. Or Channel Orange after smoking a particularly potent...
Musical Abomination: Avril Lavigne’s “Hello Kitty” September 10, 2018Everything that Chad Kroeger touches dies. Witness this abomination from the once and former darling of the pop-punk...
The Leaving Trains: Kill Tunes August 30, 2018It’s weird that I was listening to this stuff as an 8th grader back in 1986. I mean,...