Sonic Reducer Leonard Cohen Ten New Songs (Sony/Columbia)Cohen shares space on the cover with Sharon Robinson, his collaborator throughout his first new album in nine long years. The Canadian bard hasn't engage ... More
Turd on a Wire
Leonard Cohen Needs to Get Out More Often PLUS: Amélie, Cutthroats 9, Shelby Lynne and Sarah Dougher
Sonic Reducer Leonard Cohen Ten New Songs (Sony/Columbia)Cohen shares space on the cover with Sharon Robinson, his collaborator throughout his first new album in nine long years. The Canadian bard hasn't engage ... More
New Eastern Standard
Son Volt songwriter digs up some spice in the Mysterious Orient. PLUS: Miles Davis, Fugazi, Terry Southern and more.
Sonic Reducer Jay Farrar Sebastopol (Fellow Guard/ Artemis) While ex-Uncle Tupelo comrade Jeff Tweedy transformed himself into a Tom Petty clone with hand-clap-happy pop-rock band Wilco, Jay Farrar continued th ... More
SOLiD
With Gold, Ryan Adams Reanimates Classic Rock. PLUS: Lost Kids, Groove Armada Tenacious D., The Dimes, The Culottes and Enrique Iglesias (of course)
Sonic Reducer Ryan Adams Gold Universal/Lost Highway At the Aladdin Theater last Valentine's Day, the new tunes blew through Ryan Adams' lips and fingertips nearly as fast as the pack-and-a-half he chain-smo ... More
Bad Luck & Trouble
Burnside on Burnside Screams the Blues Like Lightning Striking An Icy Lake. PLUS: Garbage, Goddamn Gentlemen, Mistreaters, Porterhouse Quintet, a Kinks tribute and a BSI reggae platter.
Sonic Reducer R.L. Burnside Burnside on Burnside Fat Possum RecordsFame is a double-edged blade for R.L. Burnside. His alliance with the young blues fanatics of Fat Possum Records assures this seventysomething ... More
Of Human Bondies
Reviews of albums by the Von Bondies, Flux Information Sciences and James "Blood" Ulmer
Sonic Reducer THE VON BONDIES: LACK OF COMMUNICATION (Sympathy for the Record Industry)Heart-wrenching, arousing, mean, dirty and rough rock 'n' roll, with enough chill jazzy and dark bluesy sides to make you sna ... More
Left Coast Favorites
New discs by Portland's TV:616, San Fran's Resineators and Seattle's Blow Up.
Sonic Reducer TV:616: POISON BLANKET (Elemental)The Portland band's tightly controlled thesis on fury.At the dawn of the '90s, heavy metal teetered on the edge of a Darwinian cliff, where there were but two optio ... More
Four Little Hipsters Sitting in a Tree
New discs by Death Cab For Cutie, Vue, Stereolab and Björk
Sonic Reducer BJORK: VESPERTINE (WEA/Elektra) Somehow, the Icelandic nymph creates the perfect record for the times.I bought Bjork's new album, Vespertine, at a record store in lower Manhattan a few weeks ago. ... More
HOW TO RELAX DURING WARTIME
Unwind with new entertainments by Federation X, the Residents and H2O.
Sonic Reducer FEDERATION X: AMERICAN FOLK HORROR (Estrus)A blasting metal/blues elegy to a drunken soul.There's something going on out there. Hard as it is to believe--I know--there is something happening beyond ... More
Pyramid Schemes
Roy Campbell invades new jazz territory. PLUS: Ozma and Robert Pete Williams.
Sonic Reducer ROY CAMPBELL PYRAMID TRIO: ETHNIC STEW AND BREW (Delmark) Jazz, reinvented.A freedom cry of blazing brass soars out of frenetic, hard-thumping bass and explosive cymbal crash. Hardcore chemistry: t ... More
Eno Transcends Techno
Discs by Brian Eno and Grant-Lee Phillips
Sonic Reducer BRIAN ENO AND J. PETER SCHWALM: DRAWN FROM LIFE (Astralwerks)The English ambient master and his German apprentice explore virgin electronic soil.When it comes to the music of Brian Eno, you're eithe ... More
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Fresh-pressed regional product from Badger King, Pete Krebs, Minus the Bear and Sleep of Oldominion. Treasure + Trash
New albums by Amon Tobin, Beck, Jets to Brazil, Floetry and Radio Zumbido 7 GOING STEADY
New albums by Bella Fayes, The Decemberists, The Makers and more. We've Gone Klezmer Krazy!
Diaspora-a-go-go with Avenue A, Abe Schwartz, Dave Tarras, Frank London and Les Yeux Noirs. Biblical Fear and COCO, too
Reviews: K Records' lo-fi action, 16 HP's loathing, Green Day's homage, more. Southern Comfort?
Vastly different sides of Dixie from Antiseen, a Cajun tribute and the Dirty Dozen Brass Band. Ani, Iron, Glitch-Funk & Trust
Recordings by Ani DiFranco, Iron & Wine, National Trust, Spaceheads and Squarepusher. Double the Blackness!
New releases by Black Angel, Black Heart Procession, The Culottes, Reload and Thalia Zedek. Exhumed Undead!
Digging up American Analog Set, The Pixies, Marianne Faithfull, metal and more. Heat, Insects and Omaha
Canada's Hot Hot Heat, creepy-crawly Tribes of Neurot, Sinéad's wispy misstep and more.
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