Music Reviews tagged with rock
Modest Mouse No One's First, And You're Next
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).
Michael Skinnider reviews...
Fiery Furnaces I'm Going Away
The Fiery Furnaces sixth and most accessible album is also one of their best.
Brett Oronzio reviews...
Wilco Wilco (The Album)
(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.
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Iggy Pop Préliminaires
“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
Sean Caldwell reviews...
Various Artists Kitsuné Tabloid by Phoenix
French label Kitsuné releases the second in a series of artist-curated mixtapes on the heels of Phoenix's latest pop conquest.
Michael Skinnider picks it apart...
The Black Box Revelation Set Your Head on Fire
Belgian hard rock duo unleashes its first LP. You've got to like an album whose title commands you to do something incredibly stupid, right?
Ryan Faughnder will see you in the emergency room
Eels Hombre Lobo
Eels first album of new material since 2005's brilliant Blinking Lights and Other Revelations. How does it measure up?
Brett Oronzio reviews...
Maximo Park Quicken The Heart
Another month, another release in time for festival season, another group tipped to be "the band of the summer." Can Maximo Park Quicken The Heart?
Joe Rivers reviews...
Dredg The Pariah, The Parrot, The Delusion
Dredg's fourth album is supposedly inspired by Salman Rushdie. If that doesn't qualify it as art rock, nothing will.
Kevin Liedel puts on his mortarboard and reviews...
Green Day 21st Century Breakdown
Sure to be the most overplayed album of the summer?
Brett Oronzio reviews Green Day's eighth...
