This is the second brown25 record I’ve heard, and it continues the trend of w…

I love having my behind pulverized by some unknown quantity. French Kicks tak…

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Think of Tortoise and co. and what they did for the vibraphone. Now think of …

It’s easy to describe Pinback if you know your reference points: Rob Crow (He…

How can you follow up an album (Meet the Lothars) which features three…

Harvey liked working in the steel mills. At first, it had seemed like an unbe…

This is stoooopid with four ‘o’s. The first ‘o’ is granted for theming the ba…

These bands – Panoply Academy Corps of Engineers, Free Range Pilgrim, Not Fu…

When you say Swingin’ Neckbreakers, I think CBGB’s. I think of lead man and b…

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Like a master blacksmith forging a perfectly balanced sword, Chris Knox can w…

This split EP (four songs each) features an unusual chronology: the Lilys rec…

Persons sound like they’ve been stuck in a dressing room since the ’80s, emer…

The first thing to blast out of (rome written upside down) is a giant …

I can’t describe this. Miss Nelson and Bruce give us a musical equivalent of …

Nearly half a decade after collaborations with Eric Matthews (in Cardinal), t…

To me, the name “Conrad Uno” on an album is the musical equivalent of “open b…

Usually, punk rock confessionals get tiresome pretty darn quick. Stories of excess…

“Bubblegum” is an obvious word choice for the band’s name, as they churn out …