Pocket Symphony
Every time Air is discussed in print or in person it seems that it must be made mention how great Moon Safari was. Fine. Moon…
A Strange Education
The new album by Bloc Party The Cinematics contains 12 glossy, well-polished regurgitations of the last few years' worth of alterna-radio hits. Yawn. It's not…
We Were Dead Before the Ship Even Sank
"We've got everything down to a science," Isaac Brock sings. A decidedly un-creative thing to say, no? It seems to imply that Modest Mouse has…
Nothing Broken, Nothing Damaged
The first time I popped Bad Dream, Good Breakfast's debut full-length Nothing Broken, Nothing Damaged into my CD player and let it spin, I was…
Grinderman
There was a time when rock music was all about adolescent angst and misdirected sexual energy. Sadly, for myriad reasons too numerous to list here,…
Sound of Silver
I normally attempt not to be hyperbolic with my reviews, but if you buy one album in this, let's say, decade, LCD Soundsystem's Sound of…
Joyride
Back in 2002, a man named Sean Combs came along and said, "let's make a remix" and put out an entire album of just that.…
Or Give Me Death
To clarify one thing up-front: unlike most of Seattle and the press in general, I didn't get the first Aqueduct record I Sold Gold at…
To the Farthest Star
The curse of the live band: always exceeding expectations in their live shows, but never quite transferring that energy to a recording. A band that…
Drums and Guns
Drums and Guns, the eighth-full length album from Duluth MN’s Low, is a slow march through a fresh battlefield of creeping beats, electronic melodies, and…