Jack White – Blunderbuss
There’s a reason Jack White gets all the accolades that he does. Very few people can pull off what he’s doing with same amount success. He has the impressive ability to make the simple seem complex,...
View ArticleMarilyn Manson – Born Villain
This Born Villain album is so familiar sounding. This sounds just like a Marilyn Manson album. It sounds like one I’ve already heard. I feel like I can almost recognize these songs. In fact, A few...
View ArticleTenacious D – Rize of the Fenix
Rock! The latest Tenacious D album Rize of the Fenix is all about rock! And also some roll. Let’s not discredit roll but this album is about rock. It’s as rock as you can get. When you play it, your...
View ArticleGarbage – Not Your Kind of People
At times slights precede infamy – when some of Duke Erikson, Steve Marker and Butch Vig’s early work was said to sound “like garbage”, something significant must’ve snapped. On the cusp of two decades...
View ArticleJapandroids – Celebration Rock
Yes! Japandroids! For a band that was so just on the cusp of calling it quits, it’s almost a miracle for music lovers that they stuck around. This band is awesome. This album is Awesome. Celebration...
View ArticlePatti Smith – Banga
“Rules are man-made, so they’re probably imperfect,” said recently the godmother of punk, Patti Smith. Her new album, Banga, is nothing short of a spiritual and poetic decrying of the man-made laws...
View ArticleMetric – Synthetica
CanCon darlings Metric’s fifth studio album, Synthetica is out, a continuous play stream, spacey and plush, throwbacking to early Prog Rock grandeur with all the trimmings of new new wave. Here’s the...
View ArticleFiona Apple – The Idler Wheel Is Wiser Than the Driver of the Screw and...
When Fiona Apple released her 1999 sophomore album, its title consisted of a 90-word poem. Always evading easy listening or classification, Apple is an artist whose work demands undivided attention....
View ArticleGlen Hansard – Rhythm and Repose
The prolific Irish singer-songwriter Glen Hansard, lead singer of The Frames and one half of the folk duo The Swell Season, has released his first studio solo album, Rhythm and Repose, a mellow...
View ArticleThe Flaming Lips – The Flaming Lips and Heady Fwends
They may not always be the first in the limelight, but The Flaming Lips are undoubtedly universally loved. They’re new massive compilation album, The Flaming Lips and Heady Fwends, is testimony to how...
View ArticleNas – Life Is Good
Nas is making a comeback with his new album, Life Is Good. Old school and raw, this record has the caliber we’ve been yearning from Nas for a while. One question is left after the album: will Nas lead...
View ArticleThe Gaslight Anthem – Handwritten
Jeans, hair grease, and Saturday night in some dive bar in New Jersey – somewhere in that mixture you can hear The Gaslight Anthem on the radio singing a song from their new record, Handwritten, an...
View ArticleRick Ross – God Forgives, I Don’t
Always personal, always with his back up, Rick Ross comes out armed to the teeth but this time with his heart on his sleeve. Ross’s fifth studio album, God Forgives, I Don’t, is perhaps an attempt to...
View Article2 Chainz – Based On a T.R.U. Story
After countless mixtapes and guest appearances, not to mention being on the music scene long enough to change names, 2 Chainz releases his first studio album, Based On a T.R.U. Story, featuring guest...
View ArticleSlaughterhouse – Welcome to Our House
The glorious alliance, the super hip-hop collaboration known as Slaughterhouse (Crooked I, Joe Budden, Joell Oritz and Royce da 5’9”) is as rough and truculent as ever, staking out their rap territory,...
View ArticleThe Avett Brothers – The Carpenter
The Avett Brothers keep the tempo jaunty and their sound jubilantly twangy as they sing about the dark horizon of life, love, and time on their latest record, The Carpenter, another collection of...
View ArticleThe xx – Coexist
Without taking some time to breathe from their self-titled debut that awarded sudden and absolute popularity, The xx release Coexist, a record that, sticking true to xx character, continues on with...
View ArticleBand of Horses – Mirage Rock
Seattle locals Band of Horses once again surprise us all, this time with a complete transformation of their sound. The new album, Mirage Rock, drifts away from the indie rock quasi-grunge revival we...
View ArticleGreen Day –¡Uno!
Well, it’s been almost two decades since Woodstock ’94 (or Mudstock if you prefer) when Green Day took the South Stage, yelling, “What is this free fucking hippy love shit? How ya doin’ you rich...
View ArticleMumford & Sons – Babel
In a town with narrow lanes, old tinker shops and proudly standing but decrepit tenements, a rustic acoustic quartet stamps feet to the rhythmic beat of its tunes and sings harmonies that bring weight...
View ArticleGreen Day –¡Dos!
¡Dos!, Green Day’s second instalment to their 2012 trilogy, ¡Uno! ¡Dos! ¡Tré!, pays tribute to garage rock music according to the band’s frontman Billie Joe Armstrong, but the record seems to include a...
View ArticleRihanna – Unapologetic
The Caribbean empress Rihanna has been around longer and has worked harder than most of us would probably think. Here she is coming out with her seventh studio album, Unapologetic, a record that is...
View ArticleGreen Day –¡Tré!
¡Tré! marks the 11th album and grand finale to Green Day’s ambitious trilogy, ¡Uno! ¡Dos! ¡Tré!. This last segment (named after drummer Tré Cool) consists heavily of the bubble-gum 50′s and 60′s pop...
View ArticleNick Cave & The Bad Seeds – Push The Sky Away
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds return after the Grinderman sessions with their 16th studio album, Push The Sky Away, a characteristically weighty and poetic record, a sustained atmospheric melange of...
View ArticleEarl Sweatshirt – Doris
One of the youngest and most irreverent rappers to date, Earl Sweatshirt from Odd Future Wolfgang Kill Them All, releases his first album Doris from his own label Tan Cressida, a record that is at...
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