Built to Spill: Untethered Moon May 13, 2015Built to Spill sound like a band out of time. I mean people just don’t make music like...
Gang of Youths: The Positions April 29, 2015Opening your album with a seven-and-a-half minute song is a pretty ballsy thing to do. It’s basically a band...
Cymbals Eat Guitars: Why There Are Mountains January 18, 2015This is one lousy band name. Luckily their music, a weird mix of CaP’n Jazz, Pavement and various noise...
Ex Hex: Rips November 29, 2014This irony here — or not so much irony, but pity — is that this is the album Wild...
Cymbals Eat Guitars: Lose November 11, 2014I still hate the name of this band. Granted it’s better than Diarrhea Planet, Ugly Kid Joe or...
Spoon: They Want My Soul August 12, 2014The production on this one took me a couple listens to get used to. The almost synth-like, trebly...
Stephen Malkmus & the Jicks: Wig Out at Jagbags April 13, 2014Malkmus was always tagged with the whole slacker thing from way back. But somehow those old Pavement records...
Bent Shapes: Feels Weird December 22, 2013I was instantly hooked on this album as track 1, “Behead Yrself Pt. 2,” jumps out as easily...
Swearin’: Surfing Strange December 22, 2013Swearin’s first, self-titled album was on my list of best albums of 2012, so you could imagine my...
Connections: Private Airplane May 12, 2013It feels these days that rock and roll has lost some of its unbridled glee. I blame guyliner...
Divine Fits: A Thing Called Divine Fits September 28, 2012Never before have I heard a band that sounds so much like the individual parts of the whole....
The Cribs: In the Belly of the Brazen Bull June 4, 2012I honestly don’t know a whole lot about The Cribs. And I feel, after listening to this album,...
Screaming Females: Ugly May 13, 2012To awkwardly quote Belle & Sebastian: “Jersey’s where it’s at!” Well, Jersey is where Screaming Females are at....
Frog Eyes: The Bloody Hand April 20, 2012I think this guy might be on drugs. Either that or he’s been invaded by the spirit of...
White Rabbits: Milk Famous April 10, 2012This is a band I always want to like more than I do. It’s not that I dislike...
The Wedding Present: Valentina April 8, 2012Look, I know these guys are old, but I still find them incredibly compelling. There’s something immediate about...
David Bazan: Strange Negotiations January 24, 2012Bazan seems to condemn a lot. I suppose that’s kind of what religious folks do. But he seems...
The Soft Pack: The Soft Pack December 15, 2011Funny enough “soft pack” was the nickname hung around the necks of my group of friends in high...
