Reviews

It is an untold relief when things are exactly what they seem. Perhaps, this feeling owes something to our cultural fixation with irony and misdirection.

On Permanent Collection’s Newly Wed Nearly Dead, the San Francisco group affectionately hearkens to shoegaze, garage and light psych, while managing to make a cohesive

I remember first seeing pictures of Dan Deacon about five years ago, right around Spiderman of the Rings. Before I ever pushed play, I cut

James Murphy once suggested all the kids had sold their guitars and bought turntables. This has never felt more relevant in the age of the

Yoni Wolf returns with the next installment of first world indie lamentations and hip-hop recited manuscripts as WHY? on the Sod in the Seed EP.

Wild Nothing never made any secret about his genealogy. Back in 2009, Jack Tatum, Wild Nothing's brainchild, released a series of rough recordings, one of

Sufjan Stevens' label Asthmatic Kitty has always felt a bit like a commune. A curious and delicate collection of artists brought together first by region

Cut the difference between The Modern Lovers and Beach Blanket Bingo, and you’d have something similar to Fine Steps. Former Mayyors drummer Julian Elorduy leads

The ability to raise the anachronistic cultural past runs far beneath the zombie cartoon cover art of Apache Dropout's second long player, Bubblegum Graveyard. Punk

Seekers of analogue white noise explorations along with cult film soundtrack enthusiasts rejoice with Sacred Bones re-release of Eraserhead's industrial steam machine ambience. David Lynch’s