Ben W. | December 1, 2009
Cedric Rose is a really good drummer and an even better writer. He was nice enough to offer us his review of founding member of the Greenhornes Brian Olive’s self-titled album. And here it is:
I’m going to bury Brian Olive’s self-titled summer 2009 release in a time capsule in my backyard, because I think residents [...]
Ben W. | November 20, 2009
Wale finally has an album out, and we’re honored to have Tiffany Luckey here to sort it all out for us:
If you blinked in the last week, you might have missed 25-year-old rapper Wale’s official major record label debut – unless you’ve been waiting on pins and needles, like myself.
After a bevy of mixtapes and [...]
Ben W. | November 19, 2009
Yo La Tengo’s new album Popular Songs is poorly named. At least by half.
Ben W. | November 18, 2009
The new Raveonettes album is great.
And no one is more surprised than me.
Ben W. | November 8, 2009
Eric O’Bryant is in Morocco, helping to save the environment with the Peace Corps. Yet he still made time to give us his comments on the new Julian Casablancas album. What a guy!
I dig The Strokes and have since their beginning times. While my liking for their music has waned a tad in the recent [...]
Ben W. | November 6, 2009
Three of England’s biggest producers of electro-dance-pop released new albums this fall — Basement Jaxx, Calvin Harris and Simian Mobile Disco.
I tried to dance to all of it. But my legs got tired. And I didn’t want to go out like Strasbourg 1518.
So I made a different plan. To make some sense of it, I [...]
Ben W. | October 13, 2009
Listen to the new Amanda Blank single and you may become confused. Press ‘play’ and The Strokes’ “Hard To Explain” comes blaring out of your speakers.
Ah, but don’t worry. A mere coincidence. It really is Amanda Blank.
Ben W. | October 9, 2009
What’s in a name anyway, right?
Well, quite a lot actually in the case of Raekwon’s new album Only Built 4 Cuban Linx… Pt. II. It’s not just another solo disc from the Wu-Tang stalwart, following the not-especially-memorable Immobilarity and The Lex Diamond Story. Thanks to the name (and cleverly referential cover art), this is a [...]
Ben W. | October 5, 2009
Kid Cudi turned heads last year with his A Kid Named Cudi mixtape. It was wildly inconsistent, but had enough diverse sounds, intelligent raps and killer tracks to ramp up the anticipation for this year’s full-length debut.
So here it is. Was it worth the wait? As good as expected? Even better? A miserable failure? A [...]
Ben W. | September 30, 2009
ARC-TIC MON-KEYS!! clap-clap, clap-clap-clap…
ARC-TIC MON-KEYS!! clap-clap, clap-clap-clap…
ARC-TIC MON-KEYS!! clap-clap, clap-clap-clap…
Yeah, I went to an Arctic Monkeys concert in Columbus Monday night, and an Ohio State football game broke out.
And boy did those fans at the Newport Music Hall want an encore. Or maybe they wanted the Buckeyes to go for it on fourth down. I [...]
A borderline psychotic explosion of opinion.
