Black Rebel Motorcycle Club return with their sixth studio album. Is it decent and passable? Yes. Is it great? Of course not.

The second album from psych-rock band White Hills has a few good, fun riffs amidst a sea of sloppy guitar wanking. 

An open letter in response to an album of murky tone and questionable production from an otherwise reliable listener-friendly pop band.

The Flaming Lips rediscover their psych-rock roots.

The Sound, the Speed, the Light, Mission of Burma's third album since their unexpected comeback, brings back the raw immediacy that defined their flawless execution in the eighties.

Modest Mouse releases odds and ends from the recording sessions of their last two albums — Good News for People Who Love Bad News (2004) and We Were Dead Before the Ship Even Sank (2007).

The Fiery Furnaces sixth and most accessible album is also one of their best.

(The Album) is Wilco's seventh studio LP in a glittering fifteen year career. To celebrate its release, we asked a handful of No Ripcord scribes to critique the record.

“It’s preliminary, uh, to…(*mutters*)… it’s a step in a certain direction musically for me but, uh, because it was a slim volume, I called it that.  Um, I wouldn’t be forthcoming if I also didn’t mention that, in French, it means ‘foreplay.’” – Iggy Pop, excerpt from an interview on NPR, 6.1.09

French label Kitsuné releases the second in a series of artist-curated mixtapes on the heels of Phoenix's latest pop conquest.