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CD Review: Various Artists
Just Tell Me That You Want Me: A Tribute to Fleetwood Mac (Concord) by Michael Gallucci Tribute albums can work two ways: You stay totally faithful to the source material, or you don't. The 17 artists...
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CD Review: Way of Life
Way of Life by Dan Weiss (myspace.com/wayoflifecleve) Now that bro-rockers like Nickelback and Creed have fallen out of favor with an industry that would rather give its top Grammys to bands like...
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CD Review: The Darkness
Hot Cakes (Wind-Up) by Michael Gallucci It's been seven years since British goofballs the Darkness released an album. Not that it matters, since they've always sounded stuck in 1979 anyway.… [ Read...
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CD Review: Bloc Party
Four (Frenchkiss) by Michael Gallucci On their first album in four years, the London quartet still finds reasons to work in those cool '80s and '90s bands they're influenced by. So you'll hear some...
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CD Review: Yeasayer
Fragrant World (Secretly Canadian) by Michael Gallucci After the weirdly exciting, and kinda surprising, pop detour of 2010's Odd Blood, the Brooklyn-based Yeasayer make a slight return to their more...
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CD Review: Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffitti
Mature Themes (4AD) by Michael Gallucci Reformed low-fi indie rocker Ariel Pink expands the musical palette he used on 2010's Before Today for another wild trip through his genre-jumbled mind. He's...
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CD Review: Owl City
The Midsummer Station (Universal Republic) by Michael Gallucci Adam Young opens his bedroom project to collaborators on the latest Owl City album, but it's mostly the same whispery quasi-spiritual...
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CD Review: Art Garfunkel
The Singer (Columbia/Legacy) by Michael Gallucci Paul Simon's erstwhile partner didn't have much of a solo career once the duo broke up. And for good reason: Simon wrote all of their greatest songs...
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CD Review: Aliver Hall
Live Summer and Fall 2011 by Keith Gribbins (aliverhall.com) Last year's debut, Welcome to Aliver Hall, proved that this Akron jam band could noodle something fierce in the studio.… [ Read more ] [...
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CD Review: Alanis Morissette
Havoc and Bright Lights (Collective Sounds/Sony RED) by Michael Gallucci Alanis Morissette doesn't really sound like she's into giving blowjobs in public places these days. In fact, she sounds content...
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CD Review: Swans
The Seer (Young God) by Michael Gallucci Two years ago, these NYC post-punk heroes returned after a 14-year break with one of their all-time greatest albums, My Father Will Guide Me Up a Rope to the...
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CD Review: Dierks Bentley
Country & Cold Cans (iTunes) by Michael Gallucci Appropriately, the four new songs on this five-track EP were fueled by a couple cases of beer in the studio. The titles say it all: "Cold Cans,"...
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CD Review: Dan Deacon
America (Domino) by Michael Gallucci The centerpiece of electronic-music freak Dan Deacon's first album in three years is a four-song, 22-minute "USA" suite that employs nearly two dozen...
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CD Review: Animal Collective
Centipede Hz (Domino) by Michael Gallucci Nobody fucks with modern music, and its fans, as much as Animal Collective. When normal people say they hate hipster bands, they're specifically talking about...
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CD Review: Melissa Etheridge
4th Street Feeling (Island) by Michael Gallucci On her last album, 2010's Fearless Love, Melissa Etheridge sounded ready to fight, taking on anti-gay-marriage supporters with her toughest set of songs...
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CD Review: Robbing Mary
El Otro Lado by Danielle Sills (robbingmary.com) Chugging, driving alt-country seamlessly pours from this Cleveland group on their full-length debut (they released an EP, Groveland, in 2009).… [ Read...
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CD Review: Jens Lekman
I Know What Love Isn't (Secretly Canadian) by Michael Gallucci Swedish singer-songwriter Jens Lekman is all about the big statement. The best song on his third album, and first since 2007's excellent...
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CD Review: Bob Mould
Silver Age (Merge) by Michael Gallucci Bob Mould had a hell of a midlife crisis, farting away his late 30s and most of his 40s on disappointing acoustic and electronic albums. The Hüsker Dü and Sugar...
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CD Review: Stars
The North (ATO) by Michael Gallucci Stars came up in the same Canadian indie-pop circle as Broken Social Scene. In fact, the groups often shared membership.… [ Read more ] [ Subscribe to the comments...
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CD Review: Matchbox Twenty
North (Atlantic/Emblem) by Michael Gallucci Not much has changed for Matchbox Twenty since their last album five years ago, a greatest-hits set that included six new songs. They're still pushing...
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