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Bill Fay Time of the Last Persecution - Review of the Classic 1971 Album Created: Friday, May 18, 2012 Updated: Friday, May 18, 2012
On his second --and last-- LP, wild-eyed singer-songwriter Bill Fay saw the End Times near.
Slowdive Souvlaki - Review of the Classic 1993 Album Created: Friday, May 04, 2012 Updated: Friday, May 18, 2012
The second album for the bashful shoegazers has aged gracefully.
Best Coast The Only Place - Album Review Created: Friday, April 27, 2012 Updated: Thursday, May 17, 2012
In moving from lo-fi to hi-fi, Bethany Cosentino loses a little of Best Coast's charms in the process.
Beach House Bloom - Album Review Created: Thursday, May 17, 2012 Updated: Thursday, May 17, 2012
Baltimore's Beach House have had quite the career: growing bolder, bigger, and better with each LP.
Beach House Interview - with Alex Scally Created: Thursday, May 17, 2012 Updated: Thursday, May 17, 2012
The Beach House gets philosophical when discussion his band's pursuit of artistic 'truth'...
Top 20 Drag City Albums Created: Tuesday, May 15, 2012 Updated: Tuesday, May 15, 2012
The greatest albums from one of indie music's greatest-ever labels.
Royal Trux Twin Infinitives - Review of Royal Trux's Definitive Alternative Album Twin Infinitives Created: Friday, April 30, 2010 Updated: Wednesday, May 09, 2012
Styling themselves on the Velvet Underground, Royal Trux were dopehead provocateurs out to radically recontextualize rock's tired form.
Joanna Newsom Have One On Me - Review of Joanna Newsom's Triple Album Have One On Me Created: Tuesday, February 23, 2010 Updated: Tuesday, May 08, 2012
The warbling harpist's ambitious triple album cements her status as the most important artist of the 21st century.
Jim O'Rourke Eureka - Review of the Classic 1999 Album Created: Monday, March 05, 2012 Updated: Tuesday, May 08, 2012
Synthesizing orchestral pop with bluegrass guitar and experimental sonics, O'Rourke fashioned a resplendent suite of strange, sweet songs.
Best Coast Interview - with Bethany Cosentino Created: Friday, April 27, 2012 Updated: Wednesday, May 02, 2012
The Best Coast leader talks Jon Brion, backlash, gossip culture, existential angst, and expectations.
Best Records of 2012 - Best Alternative Music Albums of 2012 Created: Tuesday, February 07, 2012 Updated: Monday, April 30, 2012
It's never too early for an albums-of-the-year list. Here's the best records to have arrived in 2012 thus far.
New Alternative Music - Forthcoming Album Release Dates Created: Tuesday, August 11, 2009 Updated: Thursday, April 26, 2012
Sort through the glut of new releases with this guide to the upcoming indie-music release schedule.
Andrew Bird Interview Created: Thursday, April 26, 2012 Updated: Thursday, April 26, 2012
The whistlin' Oiseau talks travel, globalism, whistling, recording in a barn, and 'Break It Yourself'.
Top 10 Broadcast Songs - Best Ever Tracks By the Band Broadcast Created: Tuesday, April 24, 2012 Updated: Tuesday, April 24, 2012
English electronic act Broadcast presided over a brilliant career of beautiful, strange, eerie songs.
Broadcast Interview - An Interview with Trish Keenan of Broadcast Created: Monday, January 17, 2011 Updated: Monday, April 23, 2012
The late Broadcast singer speaks sound as literature, the passing of time, and the power of make-believe.
The Smiths The Smiths - Review of the Classic 1984 Album Created: Monday, April 23, 2012 Updated: Monday, April 23, 2012
Matching Morrissey's mopey lyricism to Johnny Marr's evergreen jangle, The Smiths' founded an infinitely-influential sound on their debut.
Mercury Rev Deserter's Songs - Review of the Classic 1998 Album Created: Friday, April 20, 2012 Updated: Friday, April 20, 2012
Drugged-out noiseniks Mercury Rev made a breakout transformation into orchestral fable-tellers on their fourth LP.
M. Ward The Transfiguration of Vincent - Review of the Classic 2003 Album Created: Friday, April 13, 2012 Updated: Friday, April 13, 2012
Ward's timeless third LP is a set of hushed devotionals for a departed friend.
Factory Records' 10 Greatest Catalogue Items Created: Sunday, April 08, 2012 Updated: Thursday, April 12, 2012
Manchester's legendary Factory Records assembled an artful discography of far more than albums.
Albums of the 2000s - Best Alternative Music of the Decade Created: Thursday, January 07, 2010 Updated: Monday, April 09, 2012
The best records of the '00s.
Gilberto Gil Gilberto Gil - Review of the Classic 1968 Album Created: Monday, April 02, 2012 Updated: Monday, April 02, 2012
The Brazilian establishment was so provoked by Gilberto Gil's mix of Bossa Nova with psychedelia and Afro-Brazilian folk that he was jailed for subversion.
Spiritualized Songs in A&E - Review of Spiritualized's Album Songs in A&E Created: Tuesday, December 09, 2008 Updated: Thursday, March 29, 2012
Jason Pierce's first album after a near-death bout with pneumonia is an inauspicious, familiar-feeling comeback.
Grimes Interview - with Claire Boucher Created: Tuesday, March 27, 2012 Updated: Tuesday, March 27, 2012
On the release of 'Visions', Grimes talks indie bands as brands, cognitive neuroscience, and Montréal.
M. Ward Interview Created: Thursday, March 15, 2012 Updated: Monday, March 26, 2012
Analog dude in a digital world, M. Ward talks chasing dreams, memories, and the warmth of the radio.
Frankie Rose Interview Created: Thursday, March 22, 2012 Updated: Thursday, March 22, 2012
Frankie Rose talks synths, shyness, internet misogyny, gossip culture, and her killer 'Interstellar' LP.
Beach House Biography - Artist Profile of Beach House Created: Wednesday, January 13, 2010 Updated: Tuesday, March 20, 2012
Victoria Legrand and Alex Scally recall the history of their slow, narcotic Baltimore duo.
Trailer Trash Tracys - Album Review Created: Friday, December 30, 2011 Updated: Tuesday, March 20, 2012
Trailer Trash Tracys' music is every bit as good as their band name is bad.
Anne Briggs The Time Has Come - Review of the Classic 1971 Album Created: Friday, March 16, 2012 Updated: Friday, March 16, 2012
Anne Briggs' raw, honest, intensely beautiful voice shines on this work of poignant, pure folksinging.
M. Ward A Wasteland Companion - Album Review Created: Thursday, March 15, 2012 Updated: Thursday, March 15, 2012
M. Ward's seventh LP is a solid, worthy --if patchy-- effort that doesn't measure up to past triumphs.
Grimes Visions - Album Review Created: Tuesday, February 07, 2012 Updated: Thursday, March 15, 2012
The third Grimes LP finds Claire Boucher exploring bright new realms of genre-transcending electronic pop.
Perfume Genius Put Your Back N 2 It - Album Review Created: Tuesday, February 07, 2012 Updated: Thursday, March 15, 2012
Mike Hadreas' second Perfume Genius LP courts controversy quietly, beautifully, and slyly.
Perfume Genius Interview - with Mike Hadreas Created: Thursday, March 08, 2012 Updated: Thursday, March 08, 2012
The Perfume Genius frontman talks controversy, 'Twin Peaks', rehab, and 'Put Your Back N 2 It'.

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