This week’s reviews: Sharon Van Etten & Haunted Hearts
It seems like record labels try and turn out the next alternative female artist each week. First it was Lana Del Ray and then it was Lorde. In between, though, […]
Monthly Archives: May 2014
Reconsidering…Bright Eyes’ “Digital Ash in a Digital Urn”
On January 25, 2005, two very different albums by one very singular artist were released: Digital Ash in a Digital Urn and I’m Wide Awake, It’s Morning. The latter is generally […]
This week’s reviews: LCD Soundsystem & Oasis
This week, LCD Soundsystem released The Long Goodbye: LCD Soundsystem Live at Madison Square Garden, a 5XLP set first issued for Record Store Day and and now widely distributed in […]
The Shape of What Punk Became
If you are unfamiliar with the seminal album The Shape of Punk to Come by Refused then you are doing yourself a huge disservice. Released in 1998, the album still […]
This week’s reviews: Conor Oberst & The Black Keys
Conor Oberst has been releasing consistently good albums for years as part of Desaparecidos and Monsters of Folk and under the pseudonym Bright Eyes and his own name. The latest album […]
borrowed nostalgia 