Your Music Sucks

I stopped listening to Modest Mouse after “The Moon and Antarctica”, the album signaled the beginning of a stylistic shift in the music that was markedly different from their previous efforts. Not that it was bad, judging by the explosion in popularity upon the release of “Good News For People Who Love Bad News” [...]

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The Radiators are old. Seriously, the guy playing lead guitar reminded me of an elderly grandfather, his old man pants with the elastic waistband pulled up over his gut. The other guitarist stood at the front of the stage complaining to the guy working the soundboard in a tone reminiscent of an Andy Rooney [...]

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I’ve grown increasingly impressed with the choice of artists the River to River organization has put together for their yearly summer concert series. The Walkmen, Danielson and Animal Collective are a few of the more eclectic acts that have appeared on past bills, and this year I was once again surprised as Wire was [...]

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Firewater first hit my radar back in 1998 or so, I didn’t know much about them, but I had Soul Coughing’s album “El Oso” on repeat at the time and I read somewhere that their drummer, Yuval Gubay, had collaborated on a new Firewater album called “The Ponzi Scheme”. Seemed interesting enough, but I never [...]

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Devotchka have gained in popularity over the past year or so due to the fact that they provided music for the film “Little Miss Sunshine”, and fittingly enough, both the film and the band share many of the same adjectives when you are searching for an apt way to describe them - quirky, heartfelt, imperfect… [...]

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I first listened to Dr. Dog back in 2004 when I read a post on the Matador Records website recommending them… whenever I am short on new things to listen to, there are a couple places I’ll stop by and aside from being a decent label, the Matador Records message board harbors one of the [...]

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John Reis, much like Michael Bolton, I celebrate the man’s entire catalog. However, it was through Gar Wood that I was initially introduced to the endless number of bands Reis has created through the years… back in 1995 or so, I was working at Caroline Records in their accounting department hopelessly reconciling sales distribution records, [...]

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