9.0
Review: Arctic Monkeys – Tranquility Base Hotel & Casino (2018)
One of the biggest rock bands in the world is set to release one of the most highly anticipated albums of the year, and…
Album Reviews
9.0
Review: Trivium – The Sin and the Sentence (2017)
As I get older and time seems to go by way faster than it did even just ten years ago, new music releases from…
7.6
Review: Cold War Kids – LA Divine (2017)
LA Divine is the product of a band that still has energy and ambition, momentum and creativity. For the Cold War Kids to still…
7.5
Review: Foxygen – Hang (2017)
Hang is an album of hope: stay strong, follow your dreams, believe in yourself, don’t give up– hang in there. The lyrics to Hang…
Review: Madjo – EP (2009)
This originally appeared in the fall issue of The Journal of a Musician, run by George Lepauw, a world-renown classical pianist in Chicago. A…
7.4
Review: Title Tracks – Long Dream (2016)
John Davis isn’t going anywhere. Debuting in 1998, Davis and his DC dance-punk trio Q And Not U explored the spastic, synthy, sweaty sound…
7.6
Review: The Radio Dept. – Running Out of Love (2016)
Somewhere at a private table in a swank nightclub in Stockholm, a cadre of beautifully Swedish leftists debate the Nordic Model and Swedish socialist…
8.0
Review: Hiss Golden Messenger – Heart Like A Levee (2016)
Throughout Heart Like a Levee, the latest record from criminally under-the-radar Hiss Golden Messenger, frontman M.C. Taylor fights with himself. As a working musicians…
9.4
Review: Touché Amoré – Stage Four (2016)
The death of a parent. A “rite of passage” as described by Touché Amoré frontman Jeremy Bolm on “Posing Holy,” off the band’s new…