Spoon, now a duo, are back with their follow-up to 2002’s tight, lean Kill the Moonlight. Although Gimme Fiction isn’t really a retread, the style is still similar enough that it doesn’t feel so much like a step forward as a step sideways. Spoon still write catchy, occasionally piano-driven indie rock, but this album […]

The Cloud Room fashion multi-hyphenated new wave-influenced, beat-driven pop-rock, and are probably headed for success. As I write this, they are “Band of the Day” at spin.com, and their first single, “Hey Now Now” is starting to get airplay around the country. Lead Singer J. sounds like a happier Paul Banks (of Interpol fame), […]

A great many people must be thinking of Beck’s newest, “What’s he got up his sleeve this time?” And with good reason; high quality music spanning genres from folk-rock and psychedelic blues to clubby dance beats and Latin tinged toe-tappers all coming from one artist is sure to keep people on the edge of their […]

The self-titled debut album from Gratitude has gotten some pretty positive press from punkbands.com and Alternative Press, but that’s not really abnormal for any album. No matter how bad a record is, there’s always someone who likes it, someone willing to say good things for the sticker on the outside. There are people […]