Review by Noah Mallin Kim Deal has had a helluva life away from The Pixies, the band in which she first found fame. The Breeders was originally a side project with Tanya Donnely of Throwing Muses (and later Belly). Their 1990 debut Pod is an indie classic, mixing rubbery rhythms and spiky songforms on songs [...]
R.E.M. — three guys x four eyes Music Review by Noah Mallin The party line on R.E.M.’s new album Accelerate is that it’s a return to classic form, something like U2′s last few records in recapturing the sound that made them stars. They’ve even used Jacknife Lee, the producer of U2′s How To Dismantle An [...]
Review by Noah Mallin Standing at the t-shirt booth and checking out the road wares at the Stephen Malkmus & The Jicks show at the Bowery ballroom in New York last night, a swaying gentleman in a blazer and t-shirt breaks away from an intense negotiation with the fellow behind the table to swivel his [...]
Malkmus — Check off “Ironic Mustache” on your Hipster Bingo card… Pavement were the most indie of indie bands — they were None More Indie. Initially low-fi, never on a major-label, often obtuse as much as catchy, even their most widely played video looked like something that cost $25. Yet as they went along, in [...]
Beck is all “I see you jacked my look Michael Cera…” Many reviews of the new two-disc Deluxe Edition of Beck’s 1996 opus Odelay have seemed to include an obligatory Kurt Cobain compare-and-contrast alt-stars of the 90s moment. The standard trope is that Kurt was too raw and full of feeling and fellow blonde skinny [...]
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