Damien Rice - B-Sides
With his impassioned tone and impressive range (not to mention his fetching mystique), Irish singer/songwriter Damien Rice generated quite a buzz when he hit these shores in 2003 with his debut, O... read more
Patti Scialfa - 23rd Street Lullaby
It’s not fair. It’s not right. But Patti Scialfa will forever be best known as Mrs. Bruce Springsteen. Or the red-haired backing vocalist in the E Street Band... read more
N.Lannon - Chemical Friends
Listening to Chemical Friends is the aural equivalent of receiving a full-body massage outdoors at twilight in a gently pulsing mid-summer shower while R2-D2 recites Shakespearean sonnets to you in his unintelligible but comforting robotic chirp... read more
The Black Keys
Getting ready to spin Rubber Factory for the first time, it’s hard not to wonder what The Black Keys could possibly do next... read more
The Who - Live at the Isle of Wight Festival 1970 (DVD)
At 2:00 a.m. on Aug. 30, 1970, The Who took the stage in front of 600,000 revelers at the Isle of Wight Festival off the southern coast of England... read more
Susan McKeown - Sweet Liberty
Dublin-born NYC singer Susan McKeown built her reputation on mixing the ancient songs of her native isle with fearless modern sensibilities, incorporating tape-looped pennywhistles and jazz-inflected bass work... read more
Jump - Between the Dim and the Dark
Keeping with the melody and heart-driven sounds, but leaving behind much of their Irish and folk influences, Between the Dim and the Dark brings in more guitars and traditional rock noises of the ’90s... read more
Morrissey - You Are The Quarry
Unless you’re a sullen suburban teen of a very particular stripe, or one of his unshakeable Latino fans, you gave up on Morrissey ages ago... read more
Dios - Dios
Considering the fact that “dios” means “god” in Spanish, this SoCal band’s musical religion is nothing short of polytheistic... read more
Guided By Voices
Let’s throw objectivity out the window, shall we? This is Guided By Voices’ last album, and I for one feel like crying... read more
Juliana Hatfield - In Exile Deo
On her previous half-dozen albums, Juliana Hatfield has clearly defined her sexy-waif persona through a steady stream of confessional songs... read more
The Creekdippers - Political Manifest
Protest music is always a dicey prospect. When it’s not boring, it’s often preachy and self-righteous. Enter former Jayhawk and Midwestern-rock legend Mark Olson... read more
Ken Stringfellow - Soft Commands
With his legacy already secure as a founding member of power-pop revivalists the Posies and as a touring member of R.E.M., Ken Stringfellow doesn’t need to make bold artistic statements to get noticed... read more
Sonia Dada - Test Pattern
Somewhat miscast as a jamband or roots-rock act—after all, no suitable descriptor exists for a group blending soul, gospel, funk, jazz... read more
Richard Shindell - Vuelta
For a genre where storytelling and songcraft remain paramount, the implicit pressure on any folk songwriter... read more
Phosphorescent - The Weight of Flight EP
The London Evening Standard said of Phosphorescent’s Matthew Houck, “He may prove to be the most significant American... read more
Lovedrug - Pretend You're Alive
If imitation really is the sincerest form of flattery, no band has been more flattered over the last decade than Radiohead... read more
Jesse Harris & The Ferdinandos
Long before he took home a Grammy for writing “Don’t Know Why” for Norah Jones, Jesse Harris was honing his craft... read more
Sleep Station - After the War
Aside from love and possibly faith in all their many variants, no topic has suffered more perennial abuse in popular art than war... read more
The Secret Machines
These jittery times have resulted in a new genre—let’s call it “dread rock.” Prime examples include Wilco’s celebrated Yankee Hotel Foxtrot... read more
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