If you “consume” music, Clutch probably doesn’t make your collection cut. You’ve likely opted to fill your CD shelves (that’s Aramaic for iTunes library, kids) with Led Zeppelin, Lynyrd Skynyrd and other classics who did it first and better. But if music is your baby, then Clutch is the pregnant woman’s peanut butter and pickle […]
The Dollyrots are on Joan Jett’s record label, Blackheart, and it’s not hard to hear the connection—but while Joan Jett even in her Runaways days smoldered with the promise of sex, the Dollyrots at best offer to make out for a while on your mom’s couch. In other words, like the masters of pop-punk and […]
If its stylishly minimalist products, reliable operating system, and gumdrop-sized and colored range of iPods weren’t already enough reasons to be an Apple loyalist, now there’s another reason to stack onto the company’s credibility: the overnight descent of The Fratellis onto mainstream media. Before bopping around my apartment to 2007’s Costello Music, I dashed out […]
No huge surprises musically on the second coming from James Murphy and company: loopy dance tracks with the minimalized sound LCD has now made its signature. Murphy isn’t afraid to carry his tones over dreamy bars, nor to wax staccato. He gives David Bowie a run for his operatic approach to the White Duke on […]
Nathan & Stephen’s debut release, The Everyone EP, is an energetic mixture of solid rock drums, sandpaper vocals, and punk rock dynamism. I must admit, I saw this group play live before I heard their recording, and I recall wondering why such a large group of people was required to create such a cacophonous, ear-bleeding […]
Okay, so his name is pretty lame. But don’t let that dissuade you from the package. Ronnie Cash, known to the underground Detroit rap scene as Phat Kat, is delivering the real stuff for his sophomore album Carte Blanche. Though he represents the late and great J-Dilla—and has a few unreleased tracks with him, the […]
