Album Review

Animal Collective’s Deakin (real name Josh Dibb) perhaps comes across as the ‘quiet one’ of the group, a moniker attributed to shy, mysterious members of popular bands since the conception of the band as ...

“Do you need a reason we should commit treason and bring into this world a son?” Andrew Bird asks on “Valleys of the Young,” the penultimate track on his newest LP, Are You Serious, out last week via ...

In February, dream pop machine M83 put out a public call for a new touring keyboardist in light of Morgan Kibby’s departure from the group. A month later, a news release announced seventh LP Junk and the addi...

Since 2010’s success with sophomore record Odd Blood, Yeasayer have been denounced as consistently underwhelming. Even then, between the trio’s first two albums, there stood a path of thorny critics calling...

Florida doesn’t have a whole lot going for it these days. If it did, there would probably be more newsworthy headlines coming out of it than the “Florida man on bath salts robs jungle gym with a balloon”-...

Hip hop producer RJD2 (real name Ramble Jon Krohn) attributes Philadelphia with the “context for a lot of soul music that had liked” and having “the same musical vocabulary” for deeper connections ...

Months after the release of Progress (2015), Maya Postepski releases a trio of outtakes from her sophomore album in EP form. Rendezvous, out May 25 via Paper Bag Records, is "comprised of tracks that are a ...

photo by Piper Ferguson After listening through the latest from Brooklyn retro-pop quintet Lucius, we have one prevailing exaltation: Good Grief! Louder, bolder, and more unafraid; this aptly-named soph...

Evan Weiss, with his solo project, Into It. Over It., has built a worthy successor atop the graves of Sunny Day Real Estate and American Football. Rather than reinvent the genre, Weiss has evolved it without sh...

Since releasing We Brave Bee Stings and All in 2008, Thao & the Get Down Stay Down have delivered album after album (Know Better Learn Faster in 2009 and We the Common in 2013) of a signature folk roc...

Reflections in Real Time is an intensely personal album that attempts to make sense of the arc traced by one’s own life from the point of view of 25 year-old hip hop artist Kilo Kish, and it is excellent.  A...

Seattle should be proud of its hip hop scene. A roll call of contemporary notables would summon names like Blue Scholars, Grieves, Sadistik -- ‘conscious’ and experimental hip hop artists who proudly wear t...

Santigold's third album 99 Cents (2016), starts off with a bouncy, electro-pop tune that cleverly manages to satirize our modern-day culture's obsession with self-promotion through sugar-coated irony. Lyri...

Vocal hocketing is a musical technique in which singers share melodies by alternating notes at measure, word or even syllable frequency. I define it here because this technique exists all over the experimental ...

Wet’s debut was a long time coming. Kelly Zutrau, Joe Valle, and Marty Sulkow have been creating and playing music together in different incarnations for nearly a decade. After coming together in Brooklyn...