Articles by Matt Charlton
Radiohead Welcomes The Rock
PUBLISHED Jan 1, 2006
It's been six years since the release of Radiohead's OK Computer. The album was a landmark; its floppy-disc folk turned critics into giggli...
Sloan Abandons Democracy
PUBLISHED Jan 1, 2006
When a formula works well enough to spawn six critically acclaimed albums, a cult following and be cited as an influence by some of today's...
Tractor Kings
Gone to Heaven
PUBLISHED Jan 1, 2006
The Tractor King’s Gone to Heaven is one of those records that has felt like a lost classic from the moment it was first pressed. The...
Okkervil River
Down the River of Golden Dreams
PUBLISHED Jan 1, 2006
Okkervil River is, at core, a four-piece collective that make an especially rootsy brand of indie pop. Each track on Down the River of Gold...
Soledad Brothers
Voice of Treason
PUBLISHED Jan 1, 2006
From the point of its inception, blues rock has borrowed from its predecessors with a loaded shotgun and ski mask. For the majority of the...
Farrell Bros.
Rumble @ the Opry
PUBLISHED Jan 1, 2006
Its strange that Buddy Holly (someone who looked like a used toaster salesman/Commodore 64 enthusiast) has inspired thousands of tattooed...
Field Register
Eastern Shore
PUBLISHED Jul 1, 2004
The shoegazer revival seems to have stalled somewhere between very hip and radically un-hip. While I prefer to ride the coattails of someon...
Matt Marquee
Nothing Personal
PUBLISHED Jun 1, 2004
Chicago-based artist Matt Marque has pulled an underground all-star cast for a backing band on his sophomore album Nothing Personal. From W...
