July 23, 2017 at 10:11 am
Album Review: Lana Del Rey “Lust for Life”
There are essentially two camps in the Lana Del Rey fandom: those who believe that the slow burn of 2014’s Ultraviolence was her ...
July 6, 2017 at 7:48 am
Album Review: Broken Social Scene “Hug of Thunder”
The 00s indie rock scene was a true golden age. Broken Social Scene were a titan of that era, and their absence since 2010’s ...
June 20, 2017 at 9:00 am
Album Review: RIPS Self-Titled
In my feminist-minded DIY rock circuit, it’s easy to make fun of the plethora of “dude bands” making generic rock-n-roll. The ...
June 16, 2017 at 1:58 pm
Album Review: The Drums “Abysmal Thoughts”
It’s been seven years since The Drums debut album, but even now Abysmal Thoughts feels like the first. This is not a comment on ...
June 11, 2017 at 1:00 pm
Album Review: Big Thief “Capacity”
Big Thief’s Masterpiece was unquestionably my favorite album of 2016. It gave me something I felt like I’d been missing for so ...
May 31, 2017 at 9:00 am
Album Review: Land of Talk “Life After Youth”
Land of Talk could never be described as particularly guileless; the band’s defining characteristic is probably front woman Liz ...
May 12, 2017 at 9:02 am
Album Review: Charly Bliss “Guppy”
Charly Bliss, a Brooklyn based four-piece, is far from the first band to revel in the glory of the 90s, but their debut, Guppy is ...
April 27, 2017 at 9:00 am
Album Review: Sylvan Esso “What Now”
When a friend first showed me Sylvan Esso, I wrote them off as a lesser continuation of the male producer/female vocalist trend ...
April 19, 2017 at 11:24 am
Album Review: Carsickness “1979-1982”
Every punk fan tries to one up their fellow punk fans—it’s just a fun game we like to play. “Oh, you like that obscure punk band ...
March 13, 2017 at 9:00 am
Interview: Dolly Spartans
Photos by Tino Zhang and Stasia de Tilly.
Dolly Spartans kicked off their mini-east coast tour with last Thursday’s SXSW ...
March 3, 2017 at 4:17 pm
Listen: Stream Strange Lot’s New Album “Gods & Clods” Out Today!
A combination of haunting melodies, agile beats, and catchy lyrics take you on a psychedelic journey with Strange Lot‘s newest ...
January 24, 2017 at 2:21 pm
Cotillon Announces New LP & Tour Dates
Jordan Corso is Cotillon, an intricate and chaotic artist currently based in NYC. He hails from both coasts—having kick started his ...
January 14, 2017 at 2:17 pm
EP Review: Tropical Skin Byrds, “S/T”
“From the moment we met / I was destined to feel your pain.” The first words from Tropical Skin Byrds heavy new EP, S/T, drag us ...
January 2, 2017 at 9:30 am
Album Review: Puzzle – Laying In The Sand
Puzzle, the solo project of Fletcher Shears (one half of post-everything Vada Vada group The Garden), has released a stellar new ...
November 17, 2016 at 7:13 pm
Review: Fat Heaven ‘Tough Luck’
This November hasn’t been the greatest, but that’s about to change. NYC/Brooklyn based punks Fat Heaven are releasing their first ...
September 7, 2016 at 7:05 pm
Album Review: Noname ‘Telefone’
I still remember the first time I heard Noname (FKA Noname Gypsy). It had been a long August day at work in New York and I, along with ...
July 13, 2016 at 3:00 pm
Album Review: The Avalanches ‘Wildflower’
Review by William Lehrer.
The musical world looked a lot different in the year 2000. Radiohead ended rock music with Kid A while it ...
June 14, 2016 at 4:00 pm
EP Review: Ritual Humor ‘In The Forests of the Night’
True to the mask that is the EP’s cover art, Ritual Humor’s new release “In The Forests of the Night” has a primitive vibe. ...
December 17, 2015 at 9:22 pm
Staff Picks: Top Releases of 2015
Our top picks for 2015! List by Nasa, Hafi, Raf, Tim, Shea, Rich, and Brittany
All year our staff has been reviewing music, going ...
November 24, 2015 at 7:25 pm
Throwback Review: Tricky ‘Pre-Millennium Tension’
The 90’s trip-hop scene is a strange place to revisit. A lot of people like to fetishize the 90’s; it’s culture, fashion, and ...
July 28, 2015 at 5:40 pm
Throwback Review: The Smashing Pumpkins ‘Melon Collie and the Infinite Sadness’
When Billy Corgan announced the Smashing Pumpkins third album, Melon Collie and the Infinite Sadness, he said it would be akin to Pink ...
July 22, 2015 at 5:49 pm
‘Jagged Little Pill’ 20 years later
Before supreme pop overlord Taylor Swift dominated top 40 radio with her wink-and-smile musicality, there was Alanis Morissette. At ...
May 6, 2015 at 11:31 pm
Throwback Review: Los Saicos ‘Wild Teen-Punk From Peru 1965’
Who invented punk? The short answer is: who cares? Let’s listen to a song about blowing up a train station.
In 1964, Los Saicos ...
April 14, 2015 at 10:40 am
Album Review: John Andrews and The Yawns ‘Bit By The Fang’
“Don’t spook those horses,” John Andrews begs on the first track of his debut solo album, Bit By The Fang, under the ...
April 13, 2015 at 4:29 pm
Earl Sweatshirt ‘I Don’t Like Shit, I Don’t Go Outside’: Anxiety, Melancholia, and Manliness
“Why you so… depressed and sad all the time, like a little bitch?” asks Vince Staples at the beginning of ...
March 31, 2015 at 6:13 pm
Album Review: Lost Boy ? ‘Canned’
The next time my dad reminisces about his adventures in a grainy 1980s LES, Lost Boy ?‘s Canned will be playing in the background. ...
March 30, 2015 at 8:36 pm
Album Review: Sufjan Stevens ‘Carrie & Lowell’
Often known for his lush orchestras and eccentric electronic freakouts, Sufjan Stevens has stripped away excess in order to deliver an ...
March 23, 2015 at 3:21 pm
Review: Kendrick Lamar ‘To Pimp A Butterfly’
“When shit hits the fan is you still a fan?” blurts Kendrick Lamar on the final track of his 2015 opus To Pimp A ...
March 2, 2015 at 8:48 pm
Album Review: Ibeyi ‘Ibeyi’
Ibeyi’s self titled debut album will make you yearn for a spring awakening. “Ibeyi” translates to a “Divine Spirit between ...
February 18, 2015 at 6:56 pm
Throwback Review: Dinosaur Jr. ‘You’re Living All Over Me’
If I were to describe Dinosaur Jr.’s album You’re Living All Over Me anecdotally, it would sound like this:
Once upon a ...
February 3, 2015 at 5:26 pm
Album Review: Small Houses ‘Still Talk; Second City;
Jeremy Quentin has outdone himself. The folk singer-songwriter behind Small Houses has produced a record that not only outshines his ...
January 27, 2015 at 7:12 pm
Review: Jack Name ‘Weird Moons’
Considering John Webster Adams (or hereby Jack Name) was once a member alongside the likes of Ty Segall and Tim Presley in the ...
January 22, 2015 at 6:35 pm
Throwback Review: Nick Drake “Pink Moon”
After two albums that were financial failures, and darkness brewing from long stints of isolation, folk singer Nick Drake returned to ...
January 22, 2015 at 8:06 am
Review: Ty Segall ‘Live in San Francisco’
The Bay Area rap scene has exploded with rappers like G-Eazy and Sage the Gemini, but the indie rock scene may soon follow with the ...
January 6, 2015 at 6:55 pm
Throwback Review: Gravediggaz ‘6 Feet Deep’
It’s been 20 years since one of hip hop’s greatest albums was released. It’s an album a lot of people have never ...
December 9, 2014 at 5:21 pm
Review: The Smashing Pumpkins ‘Monuments to an Elegy’
When I was a kid, all I wanted out of life was for it to be like the video for the Smashing Pumpkins’ “1979.” ...
October 14, 2014 at 4:20 pm
Review: Foxygen ‘…And Star Power’
“Sorry man, don’t have any Foxygen. Just listen to the Stones!”
The above is an actual response that my best ...
September 21, 2014 at 6:32 pm
Throwback Review: Cypress Hill ‘Black Sunday’
It’s hard to imagine, that just over 20 years ago, hip hop was still a relatively new musical genre just breaking into the ...
September 20, 2014 at 11:35 pm
Review: Alt-J ‘This Is All Yours’
After winning the 2012 Mercury Prize for the best album of the year in the UK for their debut An Awesome Wave, Brit indie rockers ...
August 13, 2014 at 7:39 am
Album Review: Porter Robinson ‘Worlds’
Versatile is the only way to describe Porter Robinson’s debut album Worlds. The size. The sound. Everything from the orchestral ...
July 29, 2014 at 12:38 pm
Throwback Review: Plastics ‘Welcome Plastics’
I have a recurring dream where I am a Rōnin Samurai: traveling through the countryside of ancient Japan, usually drunk, dressed ...
July 15, 2014 at 12:31 pm
Album Review: Woman’s Hour ‘Conversations’
Woman’s Hour, a four piece out of London, are a band that could have never been. It took Fiona Jane Burgess some time to convince ...
July 1, 2014 at 2:00 pm
Album Review: Turn To Crime ‘Can’t Love’
Detroit’s Turn To Crime have released an album called Can’t Love, which reminds me of an album also released this year called ...
June 18, 2014 at 12:00 pm
Review: Young Liars ‘Tidal Wave’
I don’t think I could even be mad if I were hit by a car while listening to Young Liars. Their debut, Tidal Wave, opens by ...
June 17, 2014 at 12:00 pm
Review: The Antlers ‘Familiars’
The Antlers have been around long enough that we know what we can expect from them. Their albums carry a narrative arc, spurred on by ...
June 16, 2014 at 8:17 pm
Review: Death Grips ‘N***** on the Moon’
Industrial hip hop group Death Grips just released another free LP, N***** on the Moon, which is only the first half from their ...
June 3, 2014 at 10:00 am
Review: Fucked Up ‘Glass Boys’
Let’s get this out of the way now: Fucked Up is a band that really shouldn’t exist anymore. Their sound evolved beyond hardcore ...
May 27, 2014 at 10:00 am
Review: Sharon Van Etten ‘Are We There’
Sharon Van Etten is not new to writing about relationships. In fact, songs around that theme have made up the majority of her ...
May 13, 2014 at 12:00 pm
Review: Amen Dunes ‘Love’
It’s hard to describe the feeling of a late night or early morning, especially during the summer months. On the East Coast, ...
May 12, 2014 at 11:00 am
Throwback Review: Weezer ‘Blue Album’
It was middle school, and I was fat and in and out of phases minute to minute. Vaguely punk, vaguely gothic, vaguely skater, vaguely ...