Look, man, I can’t be all punk all of the time. In fact, as I age I’m getting less and less able to take discordant noise. So a band like The Beths comes to me and I...
I admittedly hate the name of this band. To say out loud to a friend, "Hey, man, I'm really into the illuminati hotties right now" would be embarrassing to the ...
The oddly named Slaughter Beach, Dog is apparently a side project of Modern Baseball lead singer, Jake Ewald. It’s not a huge departure from his main band, but ...
There is nothing more exuberant on this planet than young Australian dudes. Hockey Dad, indeed a couple of teenagers from New South Wales, are what appear to be...
This was my first experience with Death Cab. As well it should be, as it's their debut album. Being a fan of Built to Spill, someone suggested I take a listen t...
I like that they tried some different tempos and rock-ness on this album. There were certainly times on the first two when pretty became sleepy became downright...
Yet another shift for these guys seemed inevitable after the general malaise of "Plans." If they got any more comfortable we might have had to book them a room ...
This thing was sandwiched between We Have the Facts and The Photo AlbumLPs, and it kind of shows. It has a couple alternative versioned tracks fromWe Have the F...
It's hard for me to figure out exactly when Death Cab achieved old guy indie hipster status. Call it adult contemporary hip (like their brethren The Decemberist...
Fuck yeah, Bob. Where ya been, man? It's as if he's been taking the best tracks from each one of his last 17 releases (which would only be like a year's worth o...
Upon first listen you may be tempted to ask yourself, "Is this a joke?" But don't be scared. I don't think it's a joke. At least not an obvious one, once you ge...
Back when this band was called The Format, I often went to that guilty pleasure well. Over the top and completely Broadway in its approach to pop 'n roll, it ti...
Welcome to the somber side of the formerly wacky lead singer of The Unicorns. Sounding like some sort of Greek bookie, Nick Diamonds (aka Nicholas Thornburn) is...
What we need is more tambourine! More hand tambourine. More drum kit tambourine. Just more clangy metal sound! But not in like a totally hippy way, but more lik...
This, their first album, is a meditation on calmness and kind of circling rhythms and melodies. It feels almost like one giant round of "Row Row Row Row Your Bo...
I don’t know what it’s called when one raises up on the high hat on the offbeat, but it ends up sounding kinda like disco, but probably isn’t anywhere close. I ...
There's no denying that Writer's Block was a cool sounding album. There are some seriously excellent songs on there, and the production is gnarly. Apparently th...
