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Music Album Review: Dinosaur Jr. - "Give A Glimpse Of What Yer Not" (8/10)
Dinosaur Jr. (for the past three decades) have been running with the ball passed on by the Ramones and Hüsker Dü–great anthemic rock & roll, bathed in loud and distorted guitar tones. Their latest ... -
Music Album Review: Parquet Courts - "Human Performance" (8/10)
The new Human Performance LP offers up some immediately galvanizing guitar-based rock & roll. The vocals are often reminiscent of Jonathan Richman’s, whose first Modern Lovers LP was a protopunk ... -
Album Review: XIXA - "Bloodline" (8/10)
Chicha is a style of electrified Peruvian folk music begun in the ‘60s that frequently had its lilting vocals and rhythms flavored with surf and psychedelic touches. XIXA (from Tucson) ... -
Album Review: Toulouse Engelhardt - "Mind Gardens" (9/10)
An instrumental master, Engelhardt shows off his craft as a world-class 12-string guitarist. Compositions here are by turns elegant, beautiful, meditative, intricate, psychedelic and an overall joy. A few pieces are harmonically and rhythmically complex, and ... -
Album Review: Ty Segall - "Emotional Mugger" (7/10)
Ty Segall approaches the proficiency output of author Stephen King, releasing more material in one year than most artists do in several. One suspects he’s been getting a little bored ... -
Album Review: Baaba Maal - "The Traveller" (7/10)
Veteran Senegalese Afro-pop musician/composer busts out with nine new tracks of his unique vision. Each selection is a gem of slightly different style, from slick to primal, and his arrangements ... -
Album Review: John Cale - "M:FANS" (9/10)
John Cale has always been compelling, beginning with The Velvet Underground almost 50 years ago! His latest work, "M:FANS," has him reworking a very singular piece originally titled “Music For ... -
Album Review: Tortoise - "The Catastrophist" (8/10)
Legendary instro combo Tortoise helped carve out the genre sometimes referred to as “post-rock” in the ‘90s, music that embraced and recalled minimalism and the influence of many avant-garde composers. Their first release in ... -
Album Review: Glenn Mercer- "Incidental Hum" (8/10)
Post-punk cult band The Feelies were known to throw hip and canny covers into their sets, from The Velvets to The Beatles and Stones. Here Feelie Glenn Mercer pays tribute ... -
Album Review: Joanna Newsom- "Divers" (8/10)
Newsom belongs to a line of idiosyncratic visionary female artists stretching from Joni Mitchell to Kate Bush through Björk and beyond. Her song structures are not always something you’d walk ...