Cee-Lo Green’s forthcoming album ‘The Ladykiller’ was always destined to be successful. Green’s current profile (thanks mostly in part, to the Gnarls Barkley project) has seen him supersede the reputation he built with Goodie Mob to be a fully fledged modern Soul icon. On it’s own feet, ‘Fuck You’ is a wonderful track. It drips [...]

I’ve pretty much liked everything that Nathan Williams has done in the past under the Wavves monkier. It’s so lo-fi and full of energy, it’s impossible not be taken back to another moment in time. For me, it’s the soundtrack to every skate session I ever did. Williams has done an amazing job at taking [...]

Working on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon might not seem like it would have crazy benefits for a band like The Roots – after all, they seem like they’ve done pretty much everything possible in the last 23 years…but being able to call on Jim James from Monsters of Folk (and My Morning Jacket) to [...]

I love the new Ratatat album – it’s full of textured soundscapes which can invoke effects of dizziness, disorientation and dancing (see what I did there?). LP4 is available now. Ch-oice. The beautiful video for the equally beautiful ‘Mahalo’ is below…Quite befitting of my 2000th post methinks.

What do teenagers in Long Beach listen to? With the little that I know about ‘the LBC’ (thanks Snoop), I know I had opinions about what ‘the kids’ there listened to – but even in my most adventurous thoughts, would I have considered ‘Belle and Sebastian’, ‘Bright Eye’s’ or ‘Wilco’? I didn’t think ‘kids’ anywhere [...]

I don’t understand why these guys are not the biggest band in the world. Every time I listen to either Cryptograms or Microcastle/Weird Era Cont. it sounds better (and I listen to it A LOT). Not a new track by any means, but Winter is definitely here. The line “Winter. In My Heart. It Never [...]

The XX’s debut has been, for me, the best album in a long while (though that will change now that ‘This is Happening’ is set for release – more about that later); and ‘Islands’ is probably the best track on what is a stellar album. Somehow, the emotion built by the simplicity kills me everytime [...]

I think Wilco and Vincent Moon share an important quality. Pretty much everything they do is fantastic. While I haven’t really spent too much time enjoying the most recent Wilco album (and I’m not seeing them live this year either), Vincent Moon just reminded me how mental I’ve been about 1) not listening to ‘Wilco’ [...]