Depeche Mode Violates with Violator
on November 15, 2011
Violator’s faith-challenging confluence of jealousy, devotion, absolution and lust marks the band’s highest critical, commercial, and thematic success.
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Radiohead Bends into Shape on Legendary Sophomore Outing
on October 27, 2011
Coping with the crippling isolation of celebrity and the feeling of no longer being in control of their own career, Thom Yorke expressed the group’s disdain through deeper, increasingly jaded lyricism.
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Hole Fills a Gap with Celebrity Skin
on October 18, 2011
Grungy in her music and her lifestyle, Love did an excellent job of balancing heavy, dirty and screaming with soft, feminine and crooning.
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Masked Maestros
on October 7, 2011
Madvillainy still sounds fresh seven years after, and aptly fits its “alternative hip-hop” title.
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Returning to In My Tribe: 10,000 Maniacs’ Best Record
on September 28, 2011
It’s their best, end to end, despite the folksy passion of The Wishing Chair, the dark, brooding intensity of Blind Man’s Zoo, or the pop confections included on their final proper album, Our Time In Eden.
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The Breakup Album that Has Stuck Around
on September 21, 2011
We’re thankful for every tumultuous experience that happened between the members of Fleetwood Mac.
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The Album That Made ‘Alternative’ Pop
on September 19, 2011
Nirvana’s middle record Nevermind is nothing but demented pop songs, showing the public a new kind of hit that would complicatedly redefine the “alternative” music genre.
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Is This Still It? The Strokes a Decade Later
on September 11, 2011
As the world came to see, Is This It? challenged the reasons why we appreciate the music and culture we know in this “Modern Age.”
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Lou Reed: Stepping back from The Velvet Underground
on September 5, 2011
If Reed was holding anything back with his song lyrics in Transformer, the world might not have been able to stomach it.
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The Spirits When They Need You: The Battle for By The Way
on August 31, 2011
With By The Way you can feel the breath of the album, its dirty, yearning heart beating beneath every arrangement. There is a masterful use of space, harmony, layering and auxiliary instrumentation, the band employing everything from strings to Rhodes pianos, trumpets, to melodicas, all while maintaining a spirit of escapism, an immortality, an “Everyone knows/Anything goes,” attitude that is so befitting of the band.
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Give It Away: RHCP Gives It All
on August 24, 2011
Released the same day as Nirvana’s now-legendary Nevermind, the Chili Pepper’s fifth album would become the band’s most important.
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Why Is The World In Love Again: 21 Years After the Flood
on July 28, 2011
This was art rock without pretension, Brooklyn before Brooklyn was hip, a dubious band name before dubious band names were cool.
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