Joe Metro EP
For those of you who might have missed it, the Blue Scholars released one heck of an album in 2007. Bayani, the duo’s sophomore release,…
Krankenhaus? EP
British Sea Power are a little more cerebral than your average Brit Rock band. They’re busy making references to the Spirit of St. Louis and…
Shelter from the Ash
Sometimes, during the course of my music reviewing routine, I’m presented with an album that I feel I really don’t know how to handle. It…
You Follow Me
As great as Warren Ellis' violin playing is, the drumming of Jim White has always been the most fascinating element of the Dirty Three's sound.…
How To Swim and Live
Little Name is the chosen moniker of Lee Barker, a Renaissance man musician from Liverpool whose debut album How To Swim and Live takes the…
100 Days, 100 Nights
Hearing the Dap-Kings add their furiously funky sound to albums like Mark Ronson’s Version and Amy Winehouse’s Back to Black is a fine thing, simply…
Gaps
On Monster Bobby’s MySpace page, he lists “Sigmund Freud” as being among his top friends. I found that interesting because while trying to decide on…
Heavy Deavy Skull Lover
The bio for this L.A.-based septet reference such chemically minded peers as Timothy Leary (who front man Bobby Hecksher spent some "quality" time with), the…
Baby I'm Yours EP
As a fella, I suppose I should be somewhat ashamed to admit I love shoes. Not that I’ve gone all Imelda Marcos and have a…
White Chalk
By this time in her career, Polly Jean Harvey is becoming one of the “elder statesmen” of modern rock. She has been recording music since…