Album of the Week: Pavement – Heckler’s Choice: Big Gums and Heavy Lifters – A Pavement Collection Staff Review Best Of and Greatest Hits compilations are often maligned by serious music fans and collectors, often dismissed in favour of an artist’s studio albums and frequently written off as record-label cash-ins. Yet every so often, one […]
Compiled by PAVEMENTS producer/editor Robert Greene and the band, the soundtrack ropes together disparate elements of the film – dialogue snippets, scenes from the fake Oscar-bait biopic Range Life, and cast recordings from the Slanted! Enchanted! jukebox musical as well as live and rehearsal recordings from the group’s 2021 reunion tour. The full-band performances were […]
After years of writing, wandering, and starting over, Evan Dando returns with Love Chant, the first Lemonheads studio album of original material in nearly two decades. Long in the works and shaped by shifting geographies and a cast of trusted collaborators, it’s a bold, melodic reaffirmation of one of alternative rock’s most distinctive voices.Now based […]
Trying Not to Have a Thought isn’t just Algernon Cadwallader’s first album since 2011’s Parrot Flies, it’s their first with the original lineup since 2008’s Some Kind of Cadwallader.Shortly after that debut, drummer, Nick Tazza, and guitarist, Colin Mahony, departed; Algernon broke up in 2012 and stayed dormant until their feverishly anticipated 2022 reunion.“There’s a […]
Strange But True was first released on Matador Records in 1998The song titles were taken from outrageous newspaper headlines which David Fair wrote lyrics aroundJad Fair is the founding member of lo-fi alternative rock group Half Japanese who have released over 30 recordsJad Fair is a prolific collaborator and has worked with Yo La Tengo, […]
The secretive Craven Faults returns with a single vinyl release which follows on from second full-length album Standers. Bounds will be released on black vinyl and INDIES ONLY ‘Tarn Sike Blue’ vinyl limited to just 700 copies for the world. Each edition is presented in full bleed monochrome sleeve with its own colour-coded obi strip. […]
Ranked #10 in Spin’s list of the ’20 Best Albums Of ’94’ – “…a thousand hooks, offering perfect distillation of…basement tape aesthetic….sloppily records immaculate melodies capable of breaking your heart…they’re so insistently catchy and so fleetingly brief…”, “…the band’s basic folk-pop melodies come straight from art-rock England circa 1967-1969.Through no fault of GBV itself, the […]
Album of the Week: Wednesday – Bleeds Staff Review ‘Bleeds is the sixth studio record from Asheville, North Carolina indie-rock band Wednesday. The follow-up to 2023’s Rat Saw God is another triumph from the Karly Hartzman–led quartet, with the preternaturally talented MJ Lenderman once again in the mix as a studio member. This album […]
