By Jennifer Marston on February 1, 2010
Pop chanteuse Charlotte Gainsbourg and Beck dabble in a mélange of musical styles and ponder near-death experience on their highly anticipated collaboration.
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Posted in Reviews | Tagged Beck, Charlotte Gainsbourg
By William Cody Humston on January 19, 2010
The Austin indie rock emissaries take the old, new, borrowed, and blue approach on their seventh studio album.
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Posted in Reviews | Tagged Merge, Spoon
By William Cody Humston on January 12, 2010
More Wilco than Rilo, more Cardinal than Mystic, Hustler’s Son is a commendable solo debut, chock-full of swaying, pacific-themed alt-country crooners and soulful roadhouse ballads, making it truly one of the first great albums of 2010.
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Posted in Reviews | Tagged Conor Oberst and the Mystic Valley Band, Jason Boesel, Rilo Kiley
By William Cody Humston on November 1, 2009
Excluding Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds’ “More News from Nowhere,” Electric Six’s Flashy opener, “Gay Bar Part 2,” was my number one with a bullet career-referencing, fan-alienating track of ’08. Esoteric award categories aside, “Gay Bar Part 2” (and the rest of Flashy, for that matter) features “Knights of Cydonia”-sized sound, so-catchy-they-were-probably-written-by-Hoyt-Axton hooks, and the usual deviant energy and bleak social commentary Electric Six fans have been raving about since 2003′s Fire.
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Posted in Reviews | Tagged Detroit, Electric Six, Kill
