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 [...]
Cat Power gets creamy Cat Power has done this before. In 2000 Chan Marshall (for Cat Power is she for all intents and purposes) released The Covers Record, a set of radically re-interpreted songs both classic and obscure that dramatically raised her profile in the music world. Jukebox is a similar undertaking but Cat Power [...]
Magnetic Fields ride a freight elevator together Magnetic Fields’ mastermind Stephen Merritt is a man constantly in search of a gimmick to hang his new albums on. 69 Love Songs, the band’s brilliant box set that contained exactly what the title promised, is still the most successful of these, but their last album i (all [...]
Black Francis — “Logging” some time in the studio, he “wood” “branch” out and “leaf” his old name behind…heh heh..uh yeah I know that’s so lame. After breaking up the Pixies via fax machine in the early 90′s Black Francis commenced his solo career as Frank Black. As Frank Black, Charles Thompson (as his parents [...]
Maya Arulpragasm (aka M.I.A.) dressed for some night jogging Sri Lankan rapper/singer M.I.A. (pronounced like “maya“) is connoisseur of rhythm, a veritable beat specialist. Like James Brown, she’s never met a groove or a polyrhythm she didn’t want to ride and on her new album Kala she serves up the results on a gleaming silver [...]
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