Articles by Alex Molotkow

Weezer

Red Album

PUBLISHED Jun 20, 2008

Weezer’s Red Album is a circle completed. The neo-teenybopper bands that modelled themselves after Blue Album-era Weezer before developing...

Bread, Love and Dreams

The Strange Tale of Captain Shannon and the Hunchback from Gigha

PUBLISHED May 26, 2008

Fans of late ’60s/early ’70s psych folk do not require much convincing as far as Bread, Love and Dreams are concerned. Though Edinburgh’s D...

Terence

An Eye for an Ear

PUBLISHED May 26, 2008

You would never guess that the shirtless, moustachioed gunslinger on the cover of this record was once set to star alongside Elvis in a Hol...

Young and Sexy

The Arc

PUBLISHED May 26, 2008

Four albums and ten years in, Young and Sexy continue to refine their subtle yet unmistakable talents. The Arc, like 2006’s Panic When You...

Young and Sexy

The Arc

PUBLISHED May 13, 2008

Four albums in, Young and Sexy continue to refine their subtle yet unmistakable talents. The Arc, like 2006’s Panic When You Find It, is a...

Silver Apples' Simeon Coxe

PUBLISHED Apr 30, 2008

As half of Silver Apples, Simeon Coxe was arguably the first musician to integrate live electronics into rock music. Comprised of Coxe, dru...

The Ruby Suns

Sea Lion

PUBLISHED Apr 28, 2008

Ryan McPhun, the man behind Ruby Suns, is a wandering man — if he was less charming, he’d make a great poster boy for an international host...

Clinic

Do It!

PUBLISHED Apr 27, 2008

If you hated 2004’s Winchester Cathedral, you’ll be very happy to hear that Do It! is just as lively as its title suggests. Furthermore — a...