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Review: Callow – Blue Spells

Review: Callow – Blue Spells
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The overly mesmerizing disposition of Blue Spells won’t sober up lovesick music listeners like garden-variety pop songs would, but serves more as a “hair-of-the-dog” cure and further inebriates them via beautiful minimalistic slowcore. … read more

Review: Candy Warpop – Transdecadence

Review: Candy Warpop – Transdecadence
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Candy Warpop is sugary-sweet, pop punk goodness, with a delicious and flexible female vocal and a musical sensibility that suggests a variety of top-notch influences. … read more

Review: Blitzen Trapper – VII

Review: Blitzen Trapper – VII
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Blitzen Trapper = The Eagles + Pavement + Fleet Foxes … read more

Review: Boys Noize – Fabriclive 72

Review: Boys Noize – Fabriclive 72
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The album starts off with up-tempo electro-house beats that would be all too fitting for a day club environment, then eases into deeper house and heavier bass that forces the target audience to visualize being in an underground, laser-fueled rave. … read more

Review: BL’AST! – BLOOD!

Review: BL’AST! – BLOOD!
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Dave Grohl. Is there anything he can’t do? He’s a well-known singer/songwriter, has “former Nirvana drummer” on his résumé, and now he’s resurrected the ’80s hardcore band BL’AST! by mixing a collection of unearthed tracks in their newly released album.  … read more

Review: Blackout – We Are Here

Review: Blackout – We Are Here
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While this may sound like a formula for your garden-variety sludge, Blackout spare no opportunity to reimagine the genre. Oh yeah, and don’t forget your bong. … read more

Review: Big Star – Playlist: The Very Best of Big Star

Review: Big Star – Playlist: The Very Best of Big...
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In the latest catalog of the preeminent power pop group Big Star, Playlist outlines all the incarnations of this influential band. … read more

Review: Bill Callahan – Dream River

Review: Bill Callahan – Dream River
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These songs are the kind of dreamlike reveries that can lull you into a drifting state that can carry you into dangerous territory, if that danger is sometimes just impending, around the corner. … read more

Review: Bipolaroid – Twin Language

Review: Bipolaroid – Twin Language
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I haven’t heard an album with this same perfection of vintage sound in a long time. Songs such as “Tonight We Paint the Town Our Favorite Colour” and “Efflorescent Adolescent” (plus basically every other song on the album) sound like they could be missing tracks from The Piper at the Gates of Dawn. … read more