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These Arms Are Snakes
(Suicide Squeeze) www.suicidesqueeze.com Angry, testosterone-fueled metal and hardcore is nothing new to the members of Seattle's These Arms Are Snakes. After all, they got their start more...
We The People
(Sundazed Music) www.sundazed.com The legend of late-‘60s garage-rockers We The People rests squarely on the shoulders of a single song - the manic, psyche-dr more...
Pontiak
(Thrill Jockey) www.thrilljockey.com Van, Lain and Jennings Carney have names straight out of a Breece D'J Pancake story and hail from Blue Ridge farm country in Virginia. But more...
Charlie Louvin
(Tompkins Square) www.tompkinssquare.com So what if Charlie Louvin's voice shows the ravages of age? Louvin has history and experience on his side. The 81-year-old has be more...
Lotus
(Sci Fidelity) www.scifidelity.com Lotus's most anticipated album to date, Hammerstrike (their sixth), showcases the Philly band's ability to use straight-forward organic more...
Jóhann Jóhannson
(4AD) www.4ad.com Icelandic composer Jóhann Jóhannson weaves a couple of primary themes through Fordlândia; as he explains in notes accompanying review copies, "If doomed an more...
Juana Molina
(Domino) www.dominorecordco.us With Un Dia, Juana Molina has moved far beyond the quiet beauty of albums like Segundo and Son and into something willfully abstract and in more...
Aterciopelados
(Nacional) www.nacionalrecords.com After 2006's dark yet sprightly Oye you'd be hard pressed to guess how much farther out Aterciopelados could take Colombia's a more...
Supersuckers
(Mid-Fi) www.supersuckers.com Twenty years can seem like an eternity but for some reason it seems like only yesterday Seattle's Supersuckers unleashed their fiery brand more...
Bloc Party
(Atlantic) www.atlanticrecords.com With its texturally advanced second record failure far behind them, Bloc Party move into CD three with its bruised egos now bol more...









