The Apocalypse in Your Living Room: Tallahassee a Decade Later
on February 20, 2012
A decade later, the wounds of John Darnielle’s finest hour are still fresh.
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Are You Ready for the Country?: Harvest 40 Years Later
on February 14, 2012
Forty years after its release in 1972, the Canuck’s fourth solo release remains an American masterpiece, and a handbook for running out to pasture while staying in shouting distance of civilization.
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Doolittle: Pixies’ Metaphysical Masterpiece
on February 10, 2012
How do you describe something like Doolittle? It can’t really be done.
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Objects of Desire: Inside Dylan’s Last Great Album
on January 27, 2012
Dylan was already a legend; he just had something more to say.
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Not So Nice, Nice: Lifter Puller’s Fiestas & Fiascos
on January 20, 2012
Fiestas & Fiascos stands as a black light in a white light world, reminding everybody that really, things aren’t so clean once you start digging.
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No More Raging in the Dying of the Light: Naked Raygun’s Understand?
on January 14, 2012
Naked Raygun was that rare punk band that dared to wear their hearts on their sleeves, who dared to sing of hopes and dreams, to allude to Dylan Thomas on one song and to glorify snipers on the next.
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A Donde Vayas, Guero?: Beck’s Chaotic Dance into Dystopia
on January 5, 2012
There is no discernable message to Guero, no preaching—just a busy emptiness, an unfathomable amount of information “when darkness has fallen”—where one’s only salvation is to respond with the same chaotic indifference.
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It’s the Prince’s ‘Throne’; They’re Just Watching It
on December 28, 2011
He’s the DJ, I’m the Rapper opened up the door to the Grammys and the suburbs without sacrificing the purity of the culture. Subject matter didn’t make hip-hop, adept rhymes and a beat did.
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Black Sabbath’s Paranoid Paved the Way for Metal Mania
on December 19, 2011
This is only a tiny morsel of what Black Sabbath accomplished and of what Ozzy Osbourne accomplished on his own.
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Chicago Is So Two Years Ago: Take This to Your Grave Hearkens High School Heartache, Absurdly Long but Enjoyably Witty Song Titles
on December 6, 2011
But, for one seminal moment, Fall Out Boy crafted the album that would become the snap shot of the genre.
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Out from the Dungeon: Aquemini Made Outkast the Pride of the South
on November 29, 2011
This is the album Big Boi solidified himself as a pimp with his ear to the streets. This is the album that launched Andre 3000 into space.
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Davis Still Defines Cool, 60 Years Later
on November 25, 2011
Thanks to Davis and a group of nine talented musicians, cool become more than what a summer breeze feels like more than 60 years ago in New York City.
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