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Short Cuts: Ty Segall Band’s Slaughterhouse
Slaughterhouse is indeed a raucous little hellspawn, but let’s get something outta the way real quick: a quarter of this record is worthless nothing. After 30 explosive minutes of creamy hooks,...
View ArticleLonely Weekend Singles Club: Method Man “Built For This”
Really, this song should be named “Freddie Gibbs Spits the Hook, Kills His Verse and Meth Gets All the Credit Since RZA Made the Beat.” In any event, the song knocks and I’ll be listening to it all...
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Jens Lekman: I Know What Love Isn’t
Digital music has made it simple to restart an album as soon as it’s over, so it’s cool that more artists are exploiting that possibility. The pop-music ouroboros is at least as old as Dark Side Of...
View ArticleLonely Weekday Singles Club: Converge’s “Aimless Arrow”
“To live the life you want/ abandon those you need…” begins the emotional wreckage strewn about the newest Converge single. This is the first song since Axe to Fall, a meaningful, but altogether...
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Short Cuts: Joe Norkus’ EP
There no shortage of ways to laud these five songs, but I’ll go with an old stand-by: I wish I had written them. Writing simple, melodic jams that sparkle over easygoing vocals and rambling lyrics,...
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Bob Mould: Silver Age
Bob Mould didn’t invent anything, nor did he perfect it. That said, it must be strange to watch the a generation of people both master and deconstruct (some might say destroy) the music he sought to...
View ArticleGreen Day: Greatest Hits (2012-2012)
Green Day made a peculiar pivot in 2012. With one foot they swung further away from their post-American Idiot need to win a Grammy, Tony, and Pulitzer with every zeitgeist-hungry slab of social...
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Indians: Somewhere Else
By the time I realized I was really into this album, I had lost reason. I’ve been laid up after knee surgery and this album was my first foray into 2013 that didn’t involve physical therapy or...
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My Dick: My Dick’s Double Full-Length Release
My Dick’s Double Full-Length Release is no novelty. This thing is monumental. It’s like Ween and Alexander The Great spawned The Conquering King Of All Karaoke Jams. It doesn’t just skewer your...
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Phosphorescent: Muchacho
Phosphorescent don’t write pop songs. Phosphorescent don’t write country songs or folk songs (anymore). Muchacho‘s songs resemble alt-whatever, but don’t fall into any category neatly. The riffs are...
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