POSTED // Mar 12,2008 - Top Dead Celebrity S/T  Accidente Exotic Payday Diesto Isle of Marauder Like Edward Norton in Fight Club, I’ve never been in a fight. However, I assume getting punched in the face is pretty similar to listening to these three albums from...

POSTED // Mar 5,2008 - Enee One Say Goodnight What would you do if you got KRS-One to guest star on your album? Chances are, most of us would blow it by letting fanboy admiration get in the way of producing a quality track. Enee One doesn’t blow it. On “Radio...

POSTED // Feb 20,2008 - Bob Mould District Line Lightspeed Champion Falling Off the Lavender Bridge It’s easy to compare the death of a mid-level indie band with proverbial trees that fall, perhaps silently, in the woods: If no one is there (or cares), does the breakup...

POSTED // Feb 13,2008 - Aye Aye Saint Delay and the Golden Dog It’s hard to describe the music on Saint Delay without making it sound tedious: It’s countryish, bluesy and slow—the beats sound like they were recorded through molasses. However, Aye Aye has...

POSTED // Jan 23,2008 - Chris Walla Field Manual I hate to say it: Chris Walla is guilty by association. As the guitarist/producer for Death Cab for Cutie, Walla has co-opted the band’s signature pop for his solo outing, which isn’t altogether bad. After two embarrassingly...

POSTED // Jan 16,2008 - Lapsed & Nonnon The Death of Convenience About five tracks into Convenience, the local duo includes a talking skit satirizing the kind of material Eminem litters throughout his albums. Without giving too much away, it relies on the notion that L&N’s...

POSTED // Jan 9,2008 - To say that Lance Saunders is a busy guy is an understatement. “There are actually three of me,” he says, slyly aware of his uncompromising inertia. “It comes in really handy if I’m acting like an asshole one night—later,...

POSTED // Dec 12,2007 - Author’s note: In order to give these albums a fair and unbiased critique, I drank one Red Bull for each record, hoping to achieve the kind of “holiday cheer” necessary to tolerate any sort of Christmas music. Various Artists A Dark...

POSTED // Dec 5,2007 - Will Sartain Bash Your Face In Future of the Ghost’s Sartain didn’t even let the paint dry on his band’s album before releasing this acoustic, solo project—a move that ultimately doesn’t work in Bash’s favor. Sartain’s...

POSTED // Nov 20,2007 - We all know you have killer taste in music. But, while it might seem like a good idea to burn a copy of Radiohead’s In Rainbows as a gift, it’s not an idea all will appreciate. Often, those lacking similar musical “prowess” prefer...