Nov 09, 2010 Music Issue #33 - Fall 2010 - Interpol

The Concretes' fourth album, WYWH, represents the band's return to stateside audiences for the first time since Victoria Bergsman, the singer and songwriter who helmed the band's early success, left the band after 2006's In Colour. More

Nov 08, 2010 Music Issue #33 - Fall 2010 - Interpol

A side project from Wilco members John Stirratt and Pat Sansone, The Autumn Defense released their first album, The Green Hour, in 2001. More

Nov 05, 2010 Music Issue #33 - Fall 2010 - Interpol

After so many years of aural lab work, it’s easy to imagine Brian Eno settling into his familiar work spot and thinking, “What now?” Small Craft on a Milk Sea seems a likely record for this stage of Eno’s career: a set of instrumental studies exploring a varied group of settings and directions that display the breadth of his craft. More

Nov 04, 2010 Music Issue #33 - Fall 2010 - Interpol

With its sophomore album, Chicago's The 1900s has said goodbye to two band members and the anachronistic orchestral pop of its debut. More

Nov 04, 2010 Music Web Exclusive

The Coral keep making the same record over and over again. If you're into sea shanties with great harmonies, then you're in luck. The Coral has turned that blueprint around for the sixth time on The Butterfly House. Instead of sounding stale, this group from the wrong side of Liverpool's Mersey River, the Wirral, is getting better at their branded sound. More

Nov 03, 2010 Music Web Exclusive

Like the shark documentary it's named after, this collaboration between Shearwater's Jonathan Meiburg and Xiu Xiu's Jamie Stewart reveals a frightening menace lurking beneath a placid surface. The dulcet finger-picked acoustic guitar in "Song for the Greater Jihad," for instance, is suddenly severed by what sounds like a vicious power tool More

Nov 02, 2010 Music Web Exclusive

1988's Big Thing is widely regarded as the worst Duran Duran album. But similar to Notorious, released two years earlier, the music on Big Thing sounds better now than it did 20 years ago. More

Nov 02, 2010 Music Web Exclusive

Now that we're a few decades out from the often terrible but always fun musical landscape of the 1980s, it's easier to get some perspective on some of the era's biggest bands and biggest releases. More

Nov 01, 2010 Music Web Exclusive

Modern music is just as guilty of setting the stage for a mega ’80s comeback as are the artists who defined the era. The synthesizer has pushed its way back to the top of the mix and so it makes—musical—sense for the instrument’s masters to give things another go. More