sean caldwell
Features
Speaking objectively, there were better and more elaborate albums that 2011 had to...
Album Reviews
Parts & Labour
For a band that seems enamoured with the grand musical gesture, Parts & Labor ...
Tom Waits
After seventeen albums and sixty-one years, you’d think there’d be nothing left to...
Mark Lanegan Band
There’s something missing with this one. Call it listener’s intuition....
Grinderman
In the wake of the now defunct Grinderman, which was essentially a condensed psych...
My Bloody Valentine
My Bloody Valentine had been active for five years by the time they released their...
My Bloody Valentine
A selective retrospective, My Bloody Valentine’s new reissue/compilation, EPs ...
My Bloody Valentine
I remember being a teenager some evening in the early '90s, sitting in a parking l...
Wild Nothing
Revivalism seems to suit Jack Tatum well, his stint as Wild Nothing a veritable mi...
Summer Camp
Warning: listening to Summer Camp will leave you dissatisfied with your current ro...
Vivian Girls
Listening to ‘Share The Joy’ today, my mind wandered toward thoughts of the Vivian...
Crystal Antlers
Crystal Antlers’ final album for Touch & Go Records, 2009’s Tentacles...
The Antlers
“Dreamy” isn’t necessarily supposed to mean “sleepy”, and after having read some o...
Roky Erickson & Okkervil River
Devotional Number One begins: a roughly textured and crude recording of R...
Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti
Would it be fair to discount Ariel Pink’s past in favor of his present incarnation...
Marnie Stern
Marnie Stern is as uplifting as she is complex, and has had two albums to push her...
Abe Vigoda
Last year, with their album ‘It’s Blitz!’, the Yeah Yeah Yeahs realised that evolu...
Soundtracks
The allegory of the “rumble fish” (the story’s name for Siamese fighting fish) is ...
Music Documentaries
Dave Markey
“'91 is the year punk finally breaks through to the mass consciousness of global s...
Scott Carey
During a section of explanation regarding New York’s No Wave scene of the late ‘70...
Live Reviews
Marnie Stern
The following was an email exchange on Wednesday, September 28th:
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Sleep
None of us were aware of this as we gathered into the Starlight Ballroom on the ni...
J Mascis and Kurt Vile & The Violators
Watching the night’s patrons spill into the venue, I had some fun trying to determ...
