The Shins – Port Of Morrow
Albums, New Music, Reviews April 12, 2012
The Shins‘ 2004 microhit “New Slang” established one of the more pliant templates in 2000s pop – Feist, Bon Iver and Mumford & Sons all owe something to its frumpy intimacy and strummy, mumbled moodiness. But James Mercer has been stretching for something grander ever since; 2007′s Wincing the Night Away was almost prog-rock in [...]
The Mars Volta – Noctourniquiet
Reviews March 30, 2012
It’s been three years since the noisiest little prog-rock band in Texas put out a record, but they haven’t been slacking. Their newest is a “future punk” experiment based on a comic-book villain (Solomon Grundy) and a Greek myth (Hyacinthus). Ner-dee! The results send the band’s usual tornado time signatures through some serious synth-and-gear grind; [...]
Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross – The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo: Original Soundtrack
Reviews February 20, 2012
Trent Reznor’s new score is three hours of ominous, oddly alluring atmospheres
Daughtry – Break The Spell
Albums, Reviews December 14, 2011
★★
More cheeseball rock ballads about really meaning it, man
Blink-182 – Neighborhoods
Albums, Reviews November 08, 2011
★★★
DGC/Interscope
The hitmaking punks return with grown-up problems and an artier brand of bounce
Red Hot Chili Peppers – I’m With You
Albums, Reviews October 13, 2011
★★★1/2
The Chilis charge ahead by revisiting their freaky punk-funk roots
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No More Teachers, No More Books: The Complete School’s Out Playlist
News & Updates June 13, 2011Our picks for the best songs to celebrate the end of the school year
Matchbox Twenty to Release ‘North’ in September
Black Sabbath Vow to Continue Without Drummer Bill Ward
Ringo Starr: I Lost My Beatles Photographs
Michael Jackson Costumes to Be Exhibited Internationally, Auctioned
Donald ‘Duck’ Dunn, Bass Player for Booker T. and the MGs, Dead at 70
Queen Will Debut Freddie Mercury Illusion in London
Foo Fighters’ ‘Million-Dollar Demos’ Leak Online
Gig Preview: Spud in The Box at Hard Rock Café, Mumbai
The band’s enthusiasm is infectious and unlike most other young...
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