In this day and age, releasing an album called Drums and Guns is bound to lead to some misconceptions. In fact, the title of Low’s eighth full-length record sounds like the perfect vehicle for …

Jack Peñate plays with a careless party-like energy that made the masses love ska; not to fret though as Peñate lacks the trumpet-funk combination that lead to the downfall of ska and its three revivals.

In April of last year when tracks were starting to roll out in anticipation of What’s the Time Mr. Wolf it seemed as though the Noisettes were attempting to maintain whatever positive publicity the band …

With this album Clutch may not be attempting to reinvent itself, but in doing so the band plays to its crowd of fans who have followed it wherever it has taken them.

Why is there air; or for that matter Air? As humans our bodies necessitate the need for air but since electronica’s booming 1990s wave it doesn’t seem as functional to still maintain a similar …

Whispering sweet nothings into the heart of indie darlings’ ears everywhere is Menomena, who have returned recently with a new album which follows the band’s string of unique successes with 2005’s Under an Hour and …

Moments into “Fire Engine Dream,” an outtake from the Sonic Nurse sessions in 2003, Sonic Youth begins to deliver an almost encyclopedic, note for note, version of themselves; a noisy, brash Sonic Youth reminiscent to …

Roughly a month ago it was brought to my attention that Icelandic composer Jóhann Jóhannsson would be releasing an album of new material, this time with an interestingly historic running theme surrounding his relationship with both his father and one IBM1401.

What I know of the Slits is more myth than anything, with my knowledge of the band finding its beginnings back in the time when The Trouser Press Record Guide was a key influence in …

Just what happens that when a band, so powerful and marketable, takes advantage of a sound that many are using and penetrates modern pop music with it, its many contemporaries are often forgotten? …

The band’s new album, And the Glass Handed Kites, serves as somewhat of a rock opera in which its characters appear then vanish quickly, only to reappear in its later stages in an entirely different form.

“In the brutally cold world of Big Rock Biz, there’s something very comforting about just knowing that a band like L.A.’s Silversun Pickups exist.” Something tells me that the band’s press release has an …