Green Day: ¡Uno!
When Green Day first announced they'd be releasing three new studio albums in a six-month surge, the timing seemed appropriate. read more
The Soft Pack: Strapped
The Soft Pack’s Strapped is a curiously unadventurous record, considering it was two years in the making. read more
The Whigs: Enjoy the Company
Athens, Ga., power trio delivers another impressive set of booming interstate anthems read more
No Doubt: Push and Shove
It's been over a decade since we last heard from the glitzy pop fiends in No Doubt—and a lot's changed in the interim. read more
Frightened Rabbit: State Hospital EP
As singer, guitarist and frontman Scott Hutchinson recently wrote on his band's website, “ I suppose certain songs just don't fit in to an album, but we thought these four still deserved to be given more than simply 'B-side' status.” read more
Murder By Death: Bitter Drink, Bitter Moon
The members of Murder by Death have aptly referred to their brand of gothic, old-West tunes as “dark whiskey devil music.” read more
Dum Dum Girls: End of Daze EP
When Dum Dum Girls made the leap from songwriter Dee Dee’s bedroom to Sub Pop for 2010’s debut LP I Will Be, those unfamiliar with the project’s backlog of EPs and singles could easily make the mistake of judging the band from their press photo, depicting four vampy women dressed in all black while standing on the beach, equal parts Joey Ramone and Bettie Page. read more
Mumford & Sons: Babel
In an era where buzz bands too often fall out of fashion without much notice, the fabled “sophomore slump” is even more of an issue. read more
Aimee Mann: Charmer
This album is full of horrible, heartbreaking things. Things that happen not just to bad people but good people, too. Of course, by the time a few of Charmer’s songs have passed by, the lines between good and bad become so blurred that the infinite subjective becomes the only rational paradigm. read more
The Killers: Battle Born
Don’t underestimate The Killers, a multi-platinum American band who functions as a synthesizer like LCD Soundsystem or DJ Shadow. Forget their mildly dance-punk origins and they’re an antenna to the uncool, a short wave radio station that only plays “heartland rock” (as Wikipedia says) and synthy schlock worthier of John Hughes than M83. read more
Dinosaur Jr.: I Bet on Sky
I got into Dinosaur Jr. in an ass-backwards way. In the early 2000s I watched The O.C. because I thought it would offer a conversation starter with girls I didn't know how to start a conversation with. read more
Azure Ray: As Above So Below
By now, the ladies of Azure Ray have proven themselves. With the combined efforts of Maria Taylor and Orenda Fink, the duo has birthed a number of fantastic dream pop songs that are instantly catching, if not subtly heartbreaking. Their gorgeous vocals and trembling instrumentals capture your attention with their honesty and charm. Usually. read more
Dwight Yoakam: 3 Pears
A cascading bass line that evokes the work of Motown’s James Jamerson, all fat, swollen and narcotically melodic, opens 3 Pairs, Dwight Yoakam’s return to a major label. read more
Various artists: Lowe Country: The Songs of Nick Lowe
This country-fried tribute to the tunes of revered and resilient English songwriter Nick Lowe is for a good cause—proceeds from its sales go to benefit victims of the 2010 Nashville floods and Texas wildfires of last year—and for that it should be commended, but as a record, it leaves much to be desired. read more
How to Dress Well: Total Loss
On his debut album, 2010's Love Remains, Tom Krell certainly wasn't your ordinary R&B star: a scrawny, dorky, bespectacled white dude blending bedroom-goth ambience with a '90s-era strand of quiet-storm soul, channeling sadness and heartbreak through a shivering falsetto. read more
The Jackson 5: Come and Get It: The Rare Pearls
It's nearly unbelievable that, some 40 years after they were recorded, there are still "unreleased" tracks by The Jackson 5. read more
Woods: Bend Beyond
The fact that Woods has released seven albums in the last seven years isn’t the most remarkable thing about the Brooklyn folk band’s recording output. read more
Amanda Palmer & The Grand Theft Orchestra: Theatre Is Evil
Amanda Palmer linked up with The Grand Theft Orchestra, stitching together each entity's dark beauty to make the sweeping, burgundy satin expanse that is Theatre Is Evil. read more
Ryan Bingham: Tomorrowland
Ryan Bingham tells the economically busted, morally bankrupt world to go fuck itself read more
Band of Horses: Mirage Rock
"A ramshackle crew has something to prove," sings shaggy-haired, big-hearted rock master Ben Bridwell at the outset of his band's fourth studio album. He ain't kidding. read more
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