Comebacks are rarely done well ― few artists can make the same glorious racket at 60 they could at 18. As a result, news of Os Mutante...

The cover of the first Caroline Hester Coalition record features a blonde, longhaired Hester, breasts barely contained by an embroidered ves...

Pisces's A Lovely Sight ― not a long-lost but an unreleased gem ― seems to come out of nowhere. And that's because it does. Cons...

Some loves disintegrate under the scrutiny of the wicked world; others are nourished by the attention. And each half of Lullabye Arkestra &m...

The best way to describe Colin Blunstone comes courtesy of Dennis Hopper: so fuckin' suave. Sporting only a bit of gut beneath his dark suit...

The Black Lips are alive and well and recording in Berlin. Not two weeks after some routine indecent exposure nearly got them thrown into an...

Some people are so loyal to their hometowns that they'll celebrate any record as long as it's local. In my opinion, familiarity can be a han...

Psychic Ill's second LP is murky, obscure and very engaging. The band's 2006 debut, Dins, offered more to the casual listener; it featured s...

To tide us over while we indulge in the holiday spirit gorging on stuffing and egg nog, we asked a bunch of our contributors to tell us thei...

French ye-ye is an established genre among music nerds but it’s about time that German pop got a reviving push. Hamburg-based Bureau B Recor...

The elegant Chances is a serious departure for Jill Barber, who’s so far made a name for herself as a guitar-strumming singer-songwriter. Wi...

The singing saw has an illustrious history, from Marlene Dietrich’s front-line performances during World War II to a recent show at Carnegie...

Though there’s nothing fundamentally wrong with Wovenhand, they don’t do much more for me than your average alternative rock band. There are...

No surprises here! This is Julian Koster’s singing saw, carolling Christmas tunes — and that’s it. The singing saw isn’t about to replace Bi...

Somewhere between a drum circle and Joe DJ’s play list of the week lay Gang Gang Dance. Though the band’s artiste-ry seems a little obnoxiou...

Let’s get this out of the way: City of Refuge is a good record. It lives up to all the critics’ clichés I would otherwise use in this review...

Drawing from stereotypes and oversimplifications, you might call Brazil’s Northeast region the nation’s id — the primitive unconscious under...

The story of Gary Wilson’s You Think You Really Know Me has been well documented — in print, at least — since 2002, the date of the record’s...

A lot of people say that Clinic’s records sound too much alike but in my opinion, those people are wrong. Admittedly, the band have never st...

Seventeen years and 11 albums in, what’s left to say about Stereolab? Their signature sound is so distinctive that it’s hard to itemize thei...