loved
-
After nearly two decades, A Tribe Called Quest returns to rap one last time without skipping a beat.
-
Kero Kero Bonito comes through with a set of creative, focused, and super sweet pieces of pop music on their debut album.
-
On The Long Dark Blue, Swain (f.k.a. This Routine Is Hell) channel the angst and energy of 90s rock music, while putting their own spin on the various styles.
-
Bright Eyes frontman Conor Oberst benefits from going back to basics here on his latest solo album.
-
Crying delivers one of the most triumphant, diverse, and instrumentally intricate rock records I’ve heard this year.
-
Jeff Rosenstock drops a pretty ambitious and conceptual follow-up to last year’s We Cool?.
-
Baltimore rockers Roomrunner have a track track out, teasing toward the group’s full-length debut in May, and it’s a helluva song. With an earworm riff and some youthful male vocals, it’s an absolute barnburner. I’m loving it, and I hope you do, too!
-
On the fourth track Death Grips has released from its forthcoming album, the Money Store, MC Ride and company continue to build a musical empire on the morbid and abrasive noise hop foundation laid out on last year’s Exmilitary. Drummer Zach Hill’s beats hit hard, featuring some subtle
-
MP3 Royal Headache is an Australian rock outfit with a self-titled album made of the stuff that makes guitarists smash their six strings into into splinters–even if they’re playing to a generous estimate of 25 people in a smelly old basement. ON the track “Girl,” a single guitar
-
It seemed impossible, but the Pains of Being Pure at Heart have somehow found a way to sound sweeter and more innocent than they did on their self-titled debut. This slight change in direction didn’t sit well with me on first listen, though. I was a little disappointed to
