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Album Reviews | HAIM – Days Are Gone (2013)
Something exciting is happening in popular music right now that we haven’t seen in decades: the line between pop and rock is blurring again. In the ’60s, pop and rock were inextricably lin...
Album Reviews | Elvis Costello and The Roots – Wise Up Ghost and Other Songs (2013)
This album is so cool. In fact, everything about it is cool. Who could have imagined Elvis Costello, who basically is the definition of hip, playing with hip-hop group the Roots? Unlike other mash-ups...
Album Reviews | Nine Inch Nails – Hesitation Marks (2013)
After close to two decades of only (at best) sporadic productivity, Trent Reznor appears to have found a way to exorcise his demons (both internal and external), delivering Nine Inch Nails‘ firs...
Album Reviews | Pistol Annies – Annie Up (2013)
Country music made a huge crossover splash this year, as two of the genre’s brightest young stars, Ashley Monroe and Kacey Musgraves, delivered debut LPs — Like a Rose and Same Trailer Dif...
Album Reviews | Phoenix – Bankrupt! (2013)
I feel pretty terrible about not liking Phoenix for the last few years, when the only thing they did to wrong me was license their song “1901” from 2009‘s Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix to...
Album Reviews | Kacey Musgraves – Same Trailer Different Park (2013)
Country may not be my thing, but I dig Kacey Musgraves, and truthfully, she may not even be country, at least not in the traditional sense. Her approach is more melodic — the foundations of the ...
Favorite Albums | #11: Green Day – Dookie (1994)
Ah, Dookie. One of my oldest loves. I can remember buying both Dookie and Warning (2000) at Best Buy on my thirteenth birthday. I had been putting off buying Warning since its release the previous Oct...
Favorite Albums | #14: Pearl Jam – Vs. (1993)
It took me a while to really get into Vs., but once I did, boy, did it sink its claws in me and refuse to let go. I can safely say that over the last few years I have listened to Vs. more times than a...
