Recent Articles in CD Reviews
The Black Ghosts - ‘The Black Ghosts’
You would think that equal parts Simian and The Wiseguys would result in a strange amalgamation of mediocre electro/dance/rock/hip-hop songs that could be used as promotional tools in car advertisements around the world. But Simon Lord and Theo Keating manage to suitably distance themselves from their former commercialized projects and dabble in an assortment of [...]
Miles Benjamin Anthony Robinson - Self-titled
Miles Benjamin Anthony Robinson’s voice lives in the bowels of human existence; it wails and drones through rat-infested dive bars in shady neighborhoods and the squalid homes of sallow heroin addicts. It echoes through the after hours of a sleazy strip club and rusted benches in Washington Square Park, benches that once gave MBAR a [...]
Conservative Man - ‘Mirabel and the Hikikomori’
It’s a sunny day in purgatory, a hopeful walk through T.S. Eliot’s “The Waste Land” while impish shadows tug at your conscience. It’s funeral music for grounded transients and energetic fuck-ups, for upbeat nihilists and manic loners; and it all revolves around Ian McCarthy’s meticulously constructed conflict with isolation. The New Hampshire-based multi-instrumentalist writhes poetically [...]
Loene Carmen - ‘Rock ‘n’ Roll Tears’
If this is rock and roll, then the end times are nigh. Not that Loene Carmen can’t rock, of course. And what actually is rock these days? Carmen attempts to answer the question. And when artists attempt an answer, it either works wonderfully (see Primal Scream’s Screamadelica) or comes off as almost perverse (Primal Scream’s [...]
The Kiss-Off - ‘Brace’
Imagine Wire and Echo & The Bunnymen collaborating on an album circa 1981. That’s pretty much what can be found on the Kiss-Off’s EP Brace. Whereas many a New York act have fallen into the creative trap of churning out formulaic post-punk, The Kiss-Off have managed to fuse two disparate styles together in an intriguing [...]
The War On Drugs - ‘Wagonwheel Blues’
For a band with so many experimental pop influences, The War On Drugs’ Wagonwheel Blues continues the recent thematic trend of Springsteen nostalgia, while also hinting at the intrepid Americana explorations of Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers. Is this necessarily a bad thing? Not in the case of this release, which manages to infuse the [...]
Coldplay – ‘Viva La Vida or Death and All His Friends’
The ancient churches of Barcelona that played host to the marvel Coldplay’s first record in three years would become offered no shortage of blessings. To be certain, the communion between producers Brian Eno and Markus Dravs and the band could not have come at a better time. For all of Chris Martin’s bleating over the [...]
Tilly and The Wall - ‘O’
An evanescent experience that combines emotionally charged lyrics and physically stimulating instruments, Tilly and The Wall’s newest album, O, is a reincarnation of everything that initially captivated their audience. The 11-song album is a thrilling cacophony of youthful exuberance – a young-hearted anthem that propels the mind to that of an inspired young idea proffering [...]
Spiritualized – ‘Songs in A&E’
Most bands in Spiritualized’s position do not, upon creating their sixth record, perform a system reboot. A collective exhale so dramatic it might as well be an airplane losing total cabin pressure. This is no tragedy, however, for Jason Pierce, who came down with double pneumonia during the recording of Songs in A&E and nearly [...]
Midnight Juggernauts - ‘Dystopia’
Kicking off with “End Of An Era,” which has a vibe not dissimilar to the 30 seconds that INXS didn’t totally suck (Ok, I’ll give them more…however long “Original Sin” and “I Send A Message” lasted), this is pretty clever guilty pleasure electro. First single “Road To Recovery” is pretty slamming (there are cool mixes [...]
"Poetic" and overwrought, I like this though: "In the husk of a new construction " 
The show was sensational and everyone was in top form both on and off stage! Backstage gossip revealed that there ...
she came last year with rilo kiley and 2 years ago with the watson twins but i couldn't go to ...
Can someone tell me why she refuses to come to canada? Has she ever played a show here? I live ...
"if the world does come to an end i will be dancing through it…..@ a SYH show!!"
brilliant. I second that. 
