Why wait to the end of the year to make a list. I’ll just get started on it now. I have a few albums to catch up on, so let’s start with my favourite so far. The New Pornographers are definitely one of my favourite bands and they never fail to disappoint. Together is a […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Always exciting to have a year with new albums from both Spoon and The New Pornographers (it happened in 2007 and2005). Throw in the fact that there is a new Superchunk album due in the fall and this is the most exciting music year for me in ages. So what do we get from Spoon’s […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
It is difficult for me to get past my schoolboy crush on Zooey Deschanel and review this album objectively, so I’m not going to even try. But this is not just about Zooey, we must remember the Him in She & Him and give M. Ward his props as he is also an integral part […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Amid the retirement controversy (c’mon “journalists”, settle down with the rag-mag headlines) I guess it is time for a look at The Brutalist Bricks by Ted Leo and the Pharmacists. (hey, is that enough links in one sentence to the same web site? obviously I know I’m the only person on the Internet who knows […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I can’t really review the new Superchunk 7-inch Digging for Something b/w February Punk as I do not have it. I don’t do vinyl. Don’t lynch me. I downloaded the free Digging for Something mp3, which means I have half of the musical contents of the album. It is upbeat and poppy, in a similar […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
In the movie Sliding Doors the character played by Gwyneth Paltrow is running to catch a train. The screen splits; on one screen she makes the train and on the other the sliding doors of the train close just before she gets there. The rest of the movie shows her two different paths through life. […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
When I first received Majesty Shredding at the beginning of this week I figured that by the time I sat down to write this review there would be a lot of “this song sounds like Indoor Living and that song sounds like Come Pick Me Up“. I then settled into the first listen of the […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
