Heavy Trash
Heavy Trash Heavy Trash [2] It might’ve looked good on paper: Heavy Trash is the summit meeting between two cool-rockin’ daddies, Jon Spencer (Blues Explosion) and Matt Verta-Ray (Speedball Baby), in the latter’s home studio. While it cannot be denied that these gentlemen’s parent bands have created many great albums that smell like sweat and...
Ben Folds
Ben Folds Songs For Silverman [3] In AP 199’s In The Studio, Ben Folds said his new album would be more “organic and dirtier” than any previous release in his solo career. He wasn’t lying; of course, he could’ve just said, “I’m making another Ben Folds Five record,” and no one would’ve been the wiser....
The Evens
The Evens The Evens [2] Raise your hand if you first caught the Evens-a duo of Fugazi’s Ian MacKaye (guitar, vocals) and the Warmers’ chief alumna, Amy Farina (drums)-online in a video clip, singing about vowels in a spot for the Washington, DC, public-access kids’ show Pancake Mountain. Good-then you’ll remember how upbeat and tuneful...
New Order
New Order Waiting For The Sirens’ Call [4] New
Order’s history is filled with mournful iciness, sublime electro-disco,
seminal Britpop-and episodes of portly overblown grandeur. And, depending
on what moves them, the band’s fans always seem to gravitate toward one
of these elements more than the others. To that end, Waiting...
Fall Out Boy - From Under The Cork Tree
Fall Out Boy From Under The Cork Tree They say you write what you know. For David Sedaris, it’s Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder. For Morrissey, it’s depression. And for Fall Out Boy bassist and lyricist Pete Wentz, it’s what we can only assume is a shattered-into-1,000-pieces broken heart. We don’t know the reluctant muse who inspired sentiments...
Headphones
Headphones Headphones [3] Although Headphones sound absolutely nothing like the Postal Service, the comparison is now inevitable whenever a veteran indie icon abandons guitars for synthesizers. However, whether you’ve got Jimmy Tamborello in your corner or not, the strength of an album ultimately rests on the songs, and it’s here where Pedro The Lion frontman...
Spitalfield
Spitalfield Stop Doing Bad Things [5] The road can do strange things to a band. Take Spitalfield: After the release of 2003’s one-sided emo-pop disc Remember Right Now, this suburban Chicago quartet spent the better part of 18 months traversing North America, essentially seeing the same stretches of highway, sleeping on the same floors and...