Apex Manor: The Year of Magical Drinking May 4, 2011I hate how people are always comparing other bands to Wilco, so I won’t do that to Apex...
Destroyer: Kaputt January 28, 2011My reaction to this album was somewhat akin to my reaction the first time I heard Spoon’s Girls...
Superchunk: Majesty Shredding November 30, 2010So it’s been ten years since the last Superchunk album and I don’t know how, but Mac’s voice...
Shout Out Louds: Work February 24, 2010This is one of those bands I always forget I like until I listen to their albums. They...
The Clientele: The Violet Hour February 13, 2009I can’t get a handle on this super-slow shit. I mean I’m not sure whom it’s for. Even...
Destroyer: Trouble in Dreams June 29, 2008Dan Bejar is never at a loss for words. He crams his songs full of ‘em. He packs...
Destroyer: Thief June 29, 2008If cabaret weren’t self-indulgent garbage, it would sound like this. If showtunes were rock ‘n’ roll and not...
White Whale: WWI February 6, 2008For some reason the opening moments of this album remind me of INXS. I can’t say exactly why,...
Robert Pollard: Normal Happiness October 11, 2006Wow, it’s the new “peppy” Robert Pollard. Sunshiny and ready to rock ‘n roll. Of course he’s just...
Lou Barlow: EMOH June 13, 2006Solo albums are always a good measure of an artist’s heart. For Lou Barlow, we always kind of...
Destroyer: Streethawk: A Seduction April 1, 2006Destroyer, by the sound of their name, should be playing death metal or something, but they are indeed...
Robert Pollard: From a Compound Eye January 25, 2006I really did give up trying to track Pollard’s solo stuff after Choreographed Man of War. That album...
Butterglory: Downed July 25, 2005I’ll never really understand what makes an album a classic. Or a movie, really. I hear and see...
Neutral Milk Hotel: In the Aeroplane Over the Sea February 28, 2005Hands down the best indie rock album of all time. Although to call it rock is really selling...
Spoon: Girls Can Tell February 28, 2001Man those Austin boys can rock. Spoon were once the poster boys of post-punk rock, making straight rock...
The Magnetic Fields: 69 Love Songs, Pt. 1 September 7, 2000Troubadours get a bad name. Well, a French name anyway. And Stephin Merritt is nothing if he is...
