Score: 8/10 . I think I speak for everyone when I say every time I listen to a new piece of Jimmy Eat World material there’s part of me that wants to condescendingly call it cute and another part that’s like horrified that Jim Adkins is going to bare his teeth and take us on […]
Score: 9.5/10 . This new Wilco record Ode to Joy is an eclectic record. Now, this is an important fact, discursively, and it’s also an ironic fact, because just the same Ode to Joy is a very brooding, personal record, in every way an akin companion piece to Jeff Tweedy’s solo album WARM of last […]
Score: 8/10 . If this new Sturgill Simpson record is any indication, then maybe an autocratic government ain’t a half bad way to run things. That is, I have to admit, while not being adverse to this dude, prior to researching this album I had no idea he even had a “band,” let alone one […]
Score: 6.5/10 . Wow, you know you’re living in an indie-fading, mainstream-hobbling time when you follow Rolling Stone, NME, Bandcamp and The Skinny on Facebook (I disrespectfully choose not to follow Pitchfork) and you don’t hear about the new Sebadoh album until four months after it’s out, from the in-studio on KEXP’s feed, as it […]
Score: 7/10 . So the Pixies are, like, a THING, in the 2010’s, apparently: Beneath the Eyrie marks their third album in the last five years and change, lo and behold. It’s actually got a Pixies feel, too… well for folk’s sake what the he** is a Pixies FEEL? In their heyday their music ranged […]
Score: 7.5/10 . Korn is a band from the rather remote Central Californian town of Bakersfield that formed in ’93, is now on their 13th album (released on Friday the 13th, of all days) and amazingly, in 26 years of existence, has had only one lineup change, the 2011 enlisting of still-active drummer Ray Luzier […]
Score: 4/10 . About four minutes into the first track of my first listen to this new TOOL album, Adam Jones’ electric guitar started to gather some steam, putting together a thick riff that seemed not so much plastered onto the rest of the band’s groove but funneled up into it like some aquiline tsunami […]
Score: 10/10 . Just to overview what exactly this is, Live and Loud encompasses two CD’s which once resided on the In Utero / Deluxe Edition issued in 2013 and still do, but now enjoy their own pressing to vinyl, apart from In Utero, as well as their own separate streaming interface. As a Nirvana […]
Score: 7/10 . Right away to Missy’s credit on this new five-track EP, which marks her first collection of new material in 14 years (although the apt will remember that “Where They from” track from ’15), the title seems to speak back to hip-hop greats — all the guy legends as well as allusions to […]
Score: 10/10 . Really, in all honesty, at some point in this murky quagmire, I’m planning on getting to the topic of music. But first I’d like to discuss white middle America. It’s the place that developed Viagra. It’s the place that started genetically modifying tomatoes and mass-producing coffee in Colombia, putting that country’s economy […]