DCfC are back with their fifth full-length, and their first for major label Atlantic. The larger budget doesn’t really seem to have had any effect on the Death Cab’s sound, but I think it’s impossible to hear this album without looking at it from a slightly different angle than before. The album winds […]

Johnny “Guitar” Watson was one of the best-respected guitarists in the world, a musical chameleon and as technically skilled as you could want. He started as a pianist in the early ‘50s, before announcing his six-string skillz with “Space Guitar” in 1954. For 20 years after that, he was a bluesman of the […]

Bettye Lavette never really made it big in the music industry, although she came close with a top 10 single in 1963 and a top 20 in 1978, but for the last forty years, LaVette has had one of the most powerful, emotive voices in soul music. Bettye’s getting a bit old now, but […]

The Coral have always sounded like they’d be quite at home in England in the 1960s, and The Invisible Invasion is no exception. The album is, as expected, full of Kinks-influenced psych-pop-rock. There is noticeably less experimentation than in the past, and the arrangements are more straightforward. That would have been a […]

OK Go released their major label debut a few years ago with a self-titled album full of edgy, nervous pop-rock with a shiny radio-ready sheen. Since then, the face of modern rock radio has changed a bit but OK Go have stayed the same, writing songs with hooks sharper than the Miracle Blade III […]

I can’t even begin to describe how disappointed I am today and have been for the last week. I absolutely loved Nada Surf’s last album, Let Go. I dug the two albums before that, their debut EP, and the track they contributed to The Future Soundtrack for America. It seemed to me […]