Phantogram – Three Released October 7th, 2016 New York duo Phantogram’s third and noticeably darker record (aptly titled) Three brings the duo one step closer to the inevitable stadium-filled mainstream audience it deserves. It’s the follow-up to 2014’s Voices, a… Continue Reading
Green Day – Revolution Radio Released October 7th, 2016 Teen angst, shitty families, rebuking “mainstream society”, it all appears on Revolution Radio. Green Day are a bit of a know quantity after all. Have they ever really written a bad… Continue Reading
Bon Iver – 22, A Million Released September 30th, 2016 Bon Iver’s first album in five years takes an unexpected turn toward the strange and experimental. And, while I give kudos for taking risks an experimenting, it just doesn’t work… Continue Reading
Regina Spektor – Remember Us to Life Released September 30th, 2016 Remember Us to Life delivers stunning songs with intriguing unconventionality and her brand of pop appeal. Whether her writing is a little more accessible, or we all got a little weirder to… Continue Reading
Jenny Hval – Blood Bitch Released September 30th, 2016 Jenny Hval makes difficult experimental avant-garde pop music. Blood Bitch is the fourth album under her own name by the ever-inventive and fascinating Norwegian artist. It’s arguably her best to date,… Continue Reading
Warpaint – Heads Up Released September 23rd, 2016 Los Angeles quartet Warpaint have returned with a third studio album, Heads Up. An album written while often working separately as they balanced various side projects, and a near break up of… Continue Reading
Beach Slang – A Loud Bash of Teenage Feelings Released September 23rd, 2016 Beach Slang’s sophomore album, A Loud Bash of Teenage Feelings is a more than worthy follow up to their debut record, The Things We Do To Find People… Continue Reading
Merchandise – A Corpse Wired for Sound Released September 23rd, 2016 Tampa trio Merchandise’s second album on the 4AD label A Corpse Wired for Sound features the band back to their core three-piece lineup of Carson Cox, Dave Vassalotti, and Pat Brady. And… Continue Reading
Against Me! – Shape Shift With Me Released September 16th, 2016 Against Me! singer Laura Jane Grace came out as transgender in 2012. The album that followed her transition, Transgender Dysphoria Blues, was a sprawling punk record that was unflinchingly… Continue Reading
St. Paul & The Broken Bones – Sea of Noise Released September 9th, 2016 R&B old-school revivalists Alabama’s St. Paul and the Broken Bones second LP Sea of Noise was worth the wait. The songwriting is elevated from their 2014… Continue Reading