Foals: Holy Fire
Foals Holy Fire (Warner Bros. Records) In the three years since releasing Total Life Forever, Foals have become a more focused, honed act. The cover, featuring riders on horseback at the shore’s edge, can really More...
Josh Groban: All That Echoes
Josh Groban All That Echoes (Reprise Records) Dear Josh Groban, I owe you an apology. I have known of your music for the past decade, but with your easy listening, soaring vocals, I have never given your music More...
Biffy Clyro: Opposites
Biffy Clyro Opposites (14th Floor Records) In these days of music streaming and 99-cent tracks for individual purchase, the presentation of “the album” has become increasingly a thing of the past. Thank God More...
Low: The Invisible Way
Low The Invisible Way (Sub Pop Records) After two decades together, indie group Low has managed to make music that is at once understated and powerful. With no disrespect to Steve Garrington, who holds his own More...
Mogwai: Les Revenants Soundtrack
Mogwai Les Revenants Soundtrack (Sub Pop Records) Have you heard of the TV series, Les Revenants? Yeah, me neither. At least that was the case until I learned that Mogwai was doing the soundtrack. These post-whateveryoufancy More...
Black Moth Super Rainbow: Cobra Juicy
Black Moth Super Rainbow Cobra Juicy (Rad Cult) Increasingly more these days, artists seem to be crowdsourcing in order to put out their albums. Pittsburgh’s strange electro rockers, Black Moth Super Rainbow, More...
Samantha Crain: Kid Face
Samantha Crain Kid Face (Ramseur Records) Oklahoma songstress Samantha Crain has a voice that is at once plaintive and bold. Her third release, Kid Face, is a confident fusion of grassroots folk and mainstream More...
Islands: A Sleep & A Forgetting
Islands A Sleep & A Forgetting (ANTI-Records) Canadian indie rockers Islands have gone through a variety of sounds and band members in their time. Frontman Nick Thorburn is the only remaining original member of More...
FILM: No
Since its debut at Cannes last year, Pablo LarraĂn’s No has been earning buzz from the festival and awards scene. This Chilean historical drama centers around the 1988 referendum to keep dictator Augusto More...
Maria Doyle Kennedy on Her Latest Album Sing
Maria Doyle Kennedy is a chimera of an artist. She may be best known to American audiences for her roles in shows like Downton Abbey, The Tudors, and Dexter, but her first love is music. Since her latest album Sing More...
