Blek – Hexes + Drama & Other Reasons For Evacuation ★★★1/2
Albums, Reviews May 18, 2012
Mumbai boys bring the drama on debut
Meshuggah – Koloss
Albums, Reviews April 18, 2012
Swedish metal titans go to an unexpected place on new record
Albatross/Vestal Claret – The Kissing Flies/Black Priest
Albums, Reviews April 18, 2012
The art of storytelling, courtesy Albatross and Vestal Claret
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 [...]
Florence and the Machine – MTV Unplugged
Albums, New Music, Reviews April 12, 2012
Nothing minor happens in a Florence Welch song. While most of us worry about hangnails or roaming charges, her mind is gripped by images of blindness, despair, suicide and other symptoms of love. On Unplugged, she intensifies the turbulence of her LPs and adds two covers, including a hushed “Try a Little Tenderness” that stands [...]
Madonna – MDNA
Albums, Reviews March 28, 2012
Early one morning the sun was shining and she was lying in bed, wondering why he had her cash and if her hair was still red. An idea for a song bubbled, and she wasn’t sure if this one should be about heartbreak, revenge or the old get-into-the-groove thing. And [...]
Lana Del Ray – Born To Die
Albums, Reviews March 19, 2012
The self-proclaimed “gangster Nancy Sinatra” puts on a snoozy seductress act
Bruce Springsteen – Wrecking Ball
Albums, Reviews March 19, 2012
★★★★★ (Columbia) Wrecking Ball is the most despairing, confrontational and musically turbulent album Bruce Springsteen has ever made. He is angry and accusing in these songs, to the point of exhaustion, with grave reason. The America here is a scorched earth: razed by profiteers, and suffering a shameful erosion in truly democratic values and national [...]
Van Halen – A Different Kind Of Truth
Albums March 19, 2012
★★★1/2 (Interscope) We’ve earned this, right? When David Lee Roth and Van Halen went down their own separate mean streets in the Eighties, who paid the price? We did. Van Halen fans everywhere have suffered through the years, waiting for this reunion. We don’t need it to be Fair Warning or Van Halen II. We [...]
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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