Tag: music

  • My Bloody Valentine — MBV

    There are few musi­cal moments as unlike­ly as a new My Bloody Valen­tine album. And it’s here. And I’m lis­ten­ing to it. And it’s glo­ri­ous in its My Bloody Valen­tine-ness. I’ll leave the review to Ned Raggett. A Smiths reunion seems a fait accom­pli now, no?

  • Woebot’s 100 Lost Rock Albums From the 1970s

    Matthew Ingram’s fan­tas­tic Woe­bot blog was an inspi­ra­tion to me as a crit­ic. His vora­cious appetite for and catholic taste in music pushed me to expand my palate and lis­ten to music oth­ers may have dis­missed as less­er works. In short, Woe­bot had big ears and it did­n’t hurt that he could write.  I’m final­ly read­ing…

  • Christopher Owens – Lysandre

    If you’ve read the reviews of Christo­pher Owens’ Lysan­dre, you’ll find quite a few crit­ics who wished he’d nev­er left Girls. His solo debut may have under­whelmed most crit­ics, but it’s a charm­ing col­lec­tion of pais­ley melan­cho­lia. I can’t get enough. But don’t take my word for it. Read Aquar­i­um Drunk­ard’s even­hand­ed take here.

  • Matthew Friedberger at Dusted

    Matthew Fried­berg­er fea­tured in Dust­ed Mag­a­zine’s List­ed. Read it for his fond remem­brance of Dick Allen.

  • Yo La Tengo: Great Rock Band or Greatest Rock Band?

    Here’s some­thing I scrib­bled about @TheRealYLT back in 2007. It’s still so true. Need more proof? Fine. Check out these clips of a reunit­ed Pussy Galoredaz­zling the crowd at Maxwell’s last week. Let’s not for­get the fact that Yo La Ten­go are still play­ing their stan­dard 8 night Hanukkah run while Ira recov­ers from an undis­closed…