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Ghosts I-IV
(The Null Corporation)
Nine Inch Nails main man Trent Reznor makes the most of his recent hard-won freedom on the... More >>
By D.X. Ferris
Published: April 16, 2008
Matinée
(XL)
London singer-songwriter Jack Peñate may remind you of Billy Bragg. It's not just the... More >>
By Michael Gallucci
Published: April 16, 2008
Real Emotional Trash
(Matador)
Popular thinking goes that Stephen Malkmus recorded his best work when he was fronting... More >>
By Dan Weiss
Published: March 26, 2008
Seventh Tree
(Mute)
Starbucks, your parents and people who make car commercials will lap up the new direction... More >>
By Michael D. Ayers
Published: March 26, 2008
Volume One
(Merge)
"She" is indie-movie cutie Zooey Deschanel, who played Will Ferrell's love interest in Elf .... More >>
By Mark Keresman
Published: March 26, 2008
Let the Blind Lead Those Who Can See but Cannot Feel
(Kranky)
The debut solo album by Deerhunter frontman Bradford Cox travels the same electro-experimental... More >>
By Michael Gallucci
Published: March 26, 2008
Vampire Weekend
(XL)
Call it an amendment to Godwin's Law: As reviews of Vampire Weekend accumulate, the... More >>
By Ryan Foley
Published: March 26, 2008
The Golden Age
(Merge)
When Mark Eitzel re-formed American Music Club a few years ago, it sounded pretty much like the... More >>
By Michael D. Ayers
Published: March 19, 2008
Rip It Off
(Matador)
Columbus' Times New Viking takes a cue from fellow Ohioans Guided by Voices, recording its fuzzy... More >>
By Michael Gallucci
Published: March 19, 2008
Distortion
(Nonesuch)
The earliest albums released by the Magnetic Fields (in particular, 1995's Get Lost ) featured... More >>
By Annie Zaleski
Published: March 12, 2008
Juno: Music From the Motion Picture
(Rhino)
Too many movie tie-in collections put profits before cohesion. Tunes by widely disparate... More >>
By Michael Roberts
Published: March 12, 2008
Alive At Seventy Five
(Cat Head)
Big George Brock is in fine form on this set, which was recorded in May 2007 at the Ground Zero... More >>
By Dean C. Minderman
Published: March 12, 2008
The Knee Plays
(Nonesuch Records)
Better to burn out or fade away? The current musical tendency to fetishize the past, creating... More >>
By Nicholas Hall
Published: January 2, 2008
Raising Sand
(Rounder)
On the surface, the imagination boggles when confronted with a musical collaboration between two... More >>
By William Michael Smith
Published: January 2, 2008
Audio Day Dream 
(Arista/J)
American Idol winners (Kelly Clarkson, Carrie Underwood) have it easy, as do American Idol... More >>
By Kristyn Pomranz
Published: January 2, 2008
8 Diagrams
(Motown/Universal)
The title 8 Diagrams is an homage to a Shaw brothers kung fu flick called The Eight-Diagram... More >>
By Keegan Hamilton
Published: December 12, 2007
Hvarf/Heim, Heima
(XL Recordings)
Iceland's Sigur Rós are no less majestic in 2007 than when they first broke worldwide a... More >>
By Dave Wallen
Published: December 12, 2007
Shotter's Nation
(Astralwerks)
In his spare time, when he's not dodging jail sentences or fighting with his supermodel... More >>
By Michael Gallucci
Published: December 12, 2007
As I Am
(J)
Like many of her R&B contemporaries, Alicia Keys comes up short in the melody department:... More >>
By Dan Leroy
Published: December 5, 2007
The Black and White Album
(A&M/Octone)
Hip-hop producer Pharrell Williams steps behind the boards for a pair of songs on the Hives'... More >>
By Michael Gallucci
Published: December 5, 2007
Red Carpet Massacre
(Epic)
Duran Duran had two options when it set out to make Red Carpet Massacre , its first album in... More >>
By Dan Leroy
Published: December 5, 2007
Just Like You
(Geffen)
The heartbreak of a fractured romance that brought such intense emotion to Keyshia Cole's 2005... More >>
By Lee Hildebrand
Published: December 5, 2007
Elect the Dead
System of a Down is one of the trickiest bands making music these days for one reason: It's not... More >>
By Michael Gallucci
Published: November 28, 2007
"V" Is for Vagina
The most-viewed YouTube clip starring Puscifer, Tool leader Maynard James Keenan's twisted side... More >>
By Michael Roberts
Published: November 28, 2007
No World for Tomorrow
There's so much about Coheed and Cambria's work that cries out for ridicule: the... More >>
By Michael Roberts
Published: November 28, 2007
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