I listen to Waxahatchee and I'm confused. This album, Saint Cloud, has this kind of adult contemporary, singer-songwriter type thing. Like a more traditional Sheryl Crow...
Destroyer is almost an idea more than it is a band. It's a thing that lives inside Dan Bejar's head. It makes almost no sense when you pull back from it, and almost less...
I don't know much about Pat Benatar other than the fact she was a style icon. And played some 80s rock tunes that stylized power chords and put some ballz into the genre...
Mike Krol’s Power Chords is like an ode to what music ought to be. No, seriously. There’s so much garbage out there. So much “experimentation.” So much electronica...
There’s something warm and inviting about boy/girl singing. Even if it’s not at the same time. Like Blake Babies or something I used to jam out to in the Discman...
It feels like Superchunk has been around my entire adult life. And that's mostly because they have been. I discovered them in 1993 with the release of On the Mo...
Jay Reatard may be gone but his spirit lives on in the disturbingly manic Mike Krol. Clocking in at a mere 18 minutes, his 10-track album loads pop gem after po...
If Bruce Springsteen ever wrote an epic punk rock opera about his manic depression, this is exactly what it would sound like. And who but a manic depressive in ...
Just listening to the beginning of the album's real first cut, "Mistakes & Regrets," one might think these guys have mellowed on their sophomore release, bu...
This irony here — or not so much irony, but pity — is that this is the album Wild Flag probably thought they were making. Or at least hoped they’d make. It’s no...
I want to like this. I do. The same way I wanted to like PJ Harvey and some of those woman-fronted college radio rock bands from back in the 90s. I just can't g...
What rock music these days isn't in some varying throwback style? What's old is new and all that. It just seems that we've explored all the musical genres at th...
Never before have I heard a band that sounds so much like the individual parts of the whole. If you closed your eyes and tried to imagine what a Spoon/ Handsome...
I honestly hadn't listened to a Crooked Fingers album in a while prior to cranking this one up. I'd listened to Archers of Loaf more recently, as they are alway...
Welcome to Sleater-Kinney’s less annoying little cousin. Not to say that all Sleater-Kinney is annoying, but there’s only so much riot grrrrrrl a person can tak...
This is one nice sounding album. Yes, I know that's not normally my thing, but all the pieces fit together really well here. The production seems to fit the lan...
I hate how people are always comparing other bands to Wilco, so I won't do that to Apex Manor. But I guess by even mentioning them, I'm implicitly saying there ...
My reaction to this album was somewhat akin to my reaction the first time I heard Spoon's Girls Can Tell. It was a Spoon album, to be sure, but a Spoon album th...
