1. “Everything in Its Right Place” I still remember where I first listened to Kid A. There aren’t many albums I can say that about, but most of us at least remember how ridiculously anticipated the album was as the follow-up… Read More
If OK Computer was Sgt. Peppers, Kid A and Amnesiac were Radiohead’s The White Album. The works are as wonderfully schizophrenic as the Beatles self-titled classic. When compared to the art-rock revelation of The Bends (arguably their Revolver) and the… Read More
It’s been ten years since Jónsi released a solo album. His 2010 debut, Go!, pointed the way as the experimental pioneer charted a course for a new sound. Go! has a much more optimistic and sunny disposition than the Sigur… Read More
“There are too many guns in America. Let your voice be your gun,” says singer-songwriter David Poe of his new single, “Gun for a Mouth”. The tune is built on sturdy rhythms that recall both the swagger of the glam… Read More
There’s something about deep, bass-heavy, musical thwack. It doesn’t matter how much one knows about house and all its micro-shoots, or whether they can speak to 1990s-era hip-hop producers such as Pete Rock or Easy Mo- Bee, sample-based geniuses who… Read More
The 2000s are a hard decade to pin down, but there does seem to be some certainty about the primacy of Radiohead’s Kid A in any discussion of the music of the period. One of the decade’s premier documents, debuting… Read More
A Swedish singer and songwriter Elin Wolf has just released both a musically and lyrically heartrending single with an enigmatic title “Nighttrain to Yosemite.”Following her previous release “Truth Worth a Fight”, Elin continues to please us all with her unique… Read More
Have you ever seen the paintings of English Romantic painter William Turner? He would turn a churning sea into a maelstrom of colors, the London’s polluted landscape into spiraling fog hues and tints, and the splendor of past civilizations into… Read More
Jim White’s latest LP, Misfit’s Jubilee, arrives on 30 October via Fluff & Gravy Records and features many of White’s hallmarks. Meditations on the American South, touches of heartbreak and laughter, and novelistic portraits carried out in the narrow spaces… Read More
Publishing academic books about the problems in the academy has become a flourishing, self-perpetuating field in recent years. There’s no shortage of texts speculating on what’s wrong with the academy and how it can be fixed. Some, of course, are… Read More