Year In Review

Experimental & Avant-Garde

Year in Review 2005

PUBLISHED Jan 1, 2006

KONONO #1 Congotronics (Crammed)Kinshasa, Congo's Konono # 1 hits with waves of electric thumb pianos, distorted call and response vocals,...

Electronic

Year in Review 2005

PUBLISHED Jan 1, 2006

LCD SOUNDSYSTEM (Geffen)Though he came across as an aging, know-it-all hipster whose status was slipping away in 2002's "Losing My Edge" si...

Metal & Hardcore

Year in Review 2005

PUBLISHED Jan 1, 2006

CURSEDTwo (Goodfellow)"I think hardcore has gotten really cryptic and empty," says Cursed vocalist Chris Colohan. "I think cynicism used to...

Funk, Soul & Outernational Vibes

Year in Review 2005

PUBLISHED Jan 1, 2006

M.I.A.Arular (XL)Backed by a blast of Rocky fanfare, genre-mashing agit-pop star M.I.A. entered 2005 as the champ to beat, even though her...

Year in Review 2005

PUBLISHED Jan 1, 2006

While M.I.A. puts the global into groove, our best of the year coverage highlights the political punk of Propagandhi, the geographical pop...

Film & DVD

Year in Review 2005

PUBLISHED Jan 1, 2006

Dirty Comedies, Feel Good Docs and Nothing Horrible At All The Meta-Comic MovieThe year's crucial adaptations weren't just based on comics,...

Punk

Year in Review 2005

PUBLISHED Jan 1, 2006

PROPAGANDHI Potemkin City Limits (G7 Welcoming Commitee)Propagandhi don't really write songs or make records so much as they write essays a...

Year in Review 2004

PUBLISHED Dec 1, 2004

Along with Converge, our best of the year coverage features a diverse range of sounds and approaches: Arcade Fire, Green Day, Loretta Lynn,...