Album Review: Interpol – Turn on the Bright Lights [Reissue]
Turn on the Bright Lights was released in 2002, the same year The Walkmen released Everyone Who Pretended to Like Me is Gone, the same year Sonic Youth released Murray Street, and just a year after The...
View ArticleLive Review: Six Organs of Admittance at Washington, DC’s DC9 (12/3)
Ben Chasny is infatuated with the sound a string makes when you propel it into motion. His prolific work under the Six Organs of Admittance moniker has birthed all sorts of tonal excursions–journeys to...
View ArticleLive Review: Yo La Tengo at D.C.’s 9:30 Club (2/15)
Yo La Tengo’s songs run the gamut, as if Ira Kaplan, Georgia Hubley, and James McNew are perpetually fingering through a rock lexicon Rolodex filled with names from the far reaches of (mostly) good...
View ArticleAlbum Review: Mice Parade – Candela
The words Mice Parade are an anagram for Adam Pierce, the name of the long-running project’s mingled conductor. Much like rearranging the letters in his name to create a new one, Pierce has been...
View ArticleJason Molina: Fading Trails
On the one hand, the pure love expressed for Molina — from Steve Albini, to Jens Lekman, to Will Johnson, to artist Will Schaff, to Strand of Oaks’ Tim Showalter, to countless others — has been...
View ArticleLive Review: Phosphorescent at D.C.’s Rock and Roll Hotel (3/26)
Phosphorescent’s breakout new record, Muchacho, builds upon Matthew Houck’s barstool folk-rock with elegantly produced dashes of disco and electronica; seas of strings and piano keys. It blurs the line...
View ArticleLive Review: William Tyler at D.C.’s Cafe Ghion (4/12)
William Tyler is one of those guys who plays guitar more than he doesn’t. His right hand’s fingernails have thickened and grown for the sole purpose of flicking strings with precision and authority. He...
View ArticleAlbum Review: The Shouting Matches – Grownass Man
Its hard to believe the desperate soul who wrote Skinny Love can have this much fun. But if you follow along with any of Justin Vernons extracurriculars — his cat-centric Instagram, his workout...
View ArticleLive Review: Rhye at D.C.’s Sixth & I Synagogue (4/18)
All I knew going into Rhye’s show at D.C.’s Sixth and I Synagogue (Jewish Rhye lol) was that I was about to see a band that strictly forbade photography, whose male lead singer sounds uncannily like...
View ArticleAlbum Review: These New Puritans – Field of Reeds
Last we heard from Jack Barnett and These New Puritans, the group were suiting up for battle and unsheathing swords to the sounds of dancehall rhythms and woodwinds on 2010’s Hidden. It was a primal...
View ArticleBill Callahan: Caught in the Reeds with America’s Post-Modern Patriot
Think of Bill Callahan and, perhaps more than anything else, bold images come to mind. Of rivers and eagles and cattle and horses and all of those rusty American things that so few people authentically...
View ArticleLive Review: Cat Power at DC’s Sixth & I Synagogue (11/13)
Chan Marshall puts on no acts. For a performing artist, it’s an interesting fact to focus on. For better or worse, Marshall has never splayed out anything but her true self–in whatever form it chooses...
View ArticleLive Review: Phosphorescent at DC’s 9:30 Club (1/22)
Matthew Houck has come a long way. From his early days as a bedroom folk-country crooner to the mariachi-clad rock n’ roll front man who now takes the stage in support of 2013’s stellar Muchacho, it’s...
View ArticleLive Review: Julianna Barwick at DC’s Sixth and I (2/10)
Julianna Barwick doesn’t make music, exactly. Instead, the Missouri-bred, Brooklyn-based siren simply soul-searches. She strings together gorgeous vocal melodies, unencumbered by things as clunky as...
View ArticleDissected: Bradford Cox
Editor’s Note: This feature was originally published in May 2013. It’s being republished in anticipation of Deerhunter’s new album, Fading Frontier. Welcome to Dissected, where we disassemble a band’s...
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