It’s nearly impossible to talk about this album without addressing the preposterousness of its title. Saving rock at this point is nothing short of a fool’s errand – which I think the dudes of Fall Out Boy are aware enough…
Camera2/Spacehog Mercury Lounge February 26, 2013 Not gonna lie. As a kid, I spent WAY too many hours in my room, in front of a mirror, playing air guitar and lip syncing into just about anything that resembled a microphone….
Let’s start by praising Jebus for the good news: “Comedown Machine” is better than “Angles,” The Strokes’ much-maligned fourth-album, that sporadically redeeming stinker that hummed with all the power of a weed whacker left in snow until the thaw of spring.
Heads “Cokefloat!,” the debut album from the jittery Glasgow trio PAWS, is a kaleidoscope of “Boregasms,” gleeful “got-your-nose” apathy and junkies with beautiful eyes. In short, it’s a grabbag of the best of ’90s college rock, flush with fuzzed-out guitars,…
Heads To hear them tell it, success came easy and early for Cold War Kids: They all got trendy jobs at an L.A. fashion store, wrote a much-lauded EP and the next minute were having their wardrobes dissected by Rolling…
Most of the critical reaction to Justin Timberlake’s new album, The 20/20 Experience, can be split into two camps – either OMG JT IS BACK or throwing rocks at the throne (because either it’s too weird, not weird enough or…