…the experience of the mass is behind the single voice. —Virginia Woolf …make use of another man’s inner quality and tone, but avoid his words. For the one kind of similarity is hidden and the other protrudes; the one creates […]
…the experience of the mass is behind the single voice. —Virginia Woolf …make use of another man’s inner quality and tone, but avoid his words. For the one kind of similarity is hidden and the other protrudes; the one creates […]
Stephen Malkmus is essentially a litterateur who fell into rock music, but he’s made the best of regularly putting down a book and picking up a guitar. The knowledge of a smart reader has found its way into his music, […]
On Cat Power’s last album, The Greatest, she tried her hand at mid-century southern soul, surrounded by a backing band of back-in-the-day southern musicians. It was an album of originals that felt like a collection of old-timey covers: Cat Power […]
Nearly seven years have passed since the New Pornographers became overnight darlings of indie rock with their debut Mass Romantic. That’s practically an eternity in today’s hyper-accelerated world, which might explain why Challengers finds the Vancouver-spawned supergroup sounding, for the […]
Chan Marshall opens her seventh Cat Power album with “The Greatest”, a tune awash in shimmery guitar, stately piano, soulful background vocals and swaying strings — the latter subtly nodding at “Moon River”. Coming from a such an indie-rock icon, […]
You only get to surprise people once. Stephen Malkmus did that back in 1992 with Pavement’s Slanted And Enchanted, a signpost of ’90s alt-rock and a record of intense, startling originality. Through another four Pavement albums and as a solo […]
After releasing about twenty records over twenty years, shuffling the lineup twenty times, and playing more than 1,000 live shows, the absurdly prolific Robert Pollard is retiring his sort of legendary, almost famous rock band Guided By Voices on New […]
A.C. Newman is neither a Nobel Prize-winning physicist nor an obscure Krautrock deity, but rather the adopted moniker of Carl Newman, who writes irrepressible songs for Canadian supergroup the New Pornographers and previously fronted the underrated Zumpano. That it has […]
Think of your favorite sad-sack album, the one that should come packaged with a prescription for Paxil and stickered with a warning against operating heavy machinery while under its influence. Now behold that album’s polar opposite, the aural equivalent of […]
A Mark Eitzel gig can be the equivalent of a slow-motion car crash, painful to watch but impossible to look away. One performance I saw deteriorated into a heated war of words between the mightily pissed-off troubadour and some drunken […]
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