The So So Glos has quietly changed the course of the modern punk revival. The band did it without releasing a record (other than the roughshod duet of EPs Low Back Chain Shift and Tourism/Terrorism) or gaining even a modicum of hype. Instead, a trio of Brooklyn brothers (plus one) affected a phase shift from [...]
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James Franco looks fucking ridiculous.
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Justin Vernon is nothing if not an aggressively safe songwriter. His more adventurous meanderings in indie rock with Volcano Choir and Gayngs aside, Vernon’s myriad projects all find him blending into the necessary stylistic surroundings required to garner favor in such genres. Some work better than others: his impressionistic indie-rock on Bon Iver beats the [...]
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When Sofia Coppola wed Thomas Mars, lead singer of indie-pop heroes Phoenix, it seemed very much an indie moment. Of course the wealthy, somewhat pretentious filmmaker obsessed with fuzzy indie rock and French New Wave would hook up with the roguishly attractive frontman of a French indie pop band currently undergoing a supernova of hipster [...]
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The rap game since 1990 resembles something of a ostentatious arms race.
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Katie Crutchfield’s Waxahatchee project takes an enormous leap forward on its second record, eschewing punk yet affirming the genre’s true characteristics.
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New Moon marks The Men’s fourth LP in as many years.
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Making a living in Americana has to be difficult in the post-Devendra Banhart and Joanna Newsom universe. The fearless freaks of the San Francisco folk scene, and to a lesser extent the ascent of poet of the back porch, Sam Beam, have delineated a clear marker between what could reductively be titled “retro folk” and [...]
Read MoreOn their major label debut, Scottish indie rockers Frightened Rabbit emulate indie heroes Death Cab For Cutie with tasteful refinements on heartache.
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K Ishibashi, better known by his stage name Kishi Bashi, straddles this line between …
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There’s a moment, well actually there are a lot of moments in auteur Quentin Tarantino’s Django Unchained in which …
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The only person to ever take mash-up that seriously was Gregg Gillis. Given that Gillis, better known as Girl Talk, was the best at it, it made sense for him to refer to what he did as “performance art” in an interview I conducted with him a few years ago. Appreciating Night Ripper, Feed The [...]
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