Articles by Andrew Steenberg

Liars

Drum's Not Dead

PUBLISHED Mar 1, 2006

When Liars released They Threw Us All in a Trench and Stuck a Monument on Top in 2002, they appeared to be a juggernaut of vociferous, danc...

Editors

The Back Room

PUBLISHED Mar 1, 2006

Like several bands of the past 26 years, Editors cull the vernal, yet dyspeptic, pastures of Joy Division, but have a more eager willingnes...

Concretes

In Colour

PUBLISHED Mar 1, 2006

Good music has never been a particularly blithe affair. There always seems to be more Cures and Elliott Smiths than, say, Broken Social Sce...

Anagram

After Dark

PUBLISHED Feb 1, 2006

A friend of mine recently got into a car accident which left him with a broken collarbone, windshield shards in his face, a black eye and s...

Mew

And the Glass Handed Kites

PUBLISHED Feb 1, 2006

Somewhere between A-Ha and Muse lie Mew and their front-man Jonas Bjerr’s impossible falsetto. On their second proper North American releas...

Various

Stubbs the Zombie: The Soundtrack

PUBLISHED Feb 1, 2006

Not enough simply being a video game, Stubbs the Zombie also has an accompanying soundtrack and, presumably, Benjamin Moore paint hue. Not...

Beat of <b>The Streets</b>

PUBLISHED Jan 1, 2006

Along with "comeback album" and "with accompaniment from the London Philharmonic Orchestra," the words "concept album" generally do a prett...

The Mars Volta Is So Over It

PUBLISHED Jan 1, 2006

For most musicians, the hardest part of disbanding is rarely the break-up itself, but picking up the pieces and moving on. Judging by the o...