A Year for Consolidation: Pop Music on the Rebound

Hipsters can’t claim to have made any amazing discoveries in 2005, but it did feel healthy to go through the whole year without a hyped-to-death debut. It was a time for precocious youngsters to consolidate early gains and for veterans to return to form, return with a different focus or just return, period. What follows Read More

A Year for Consolidation: Pop Music on the Rebound

Hipsters can’t claim to have made any amazing discoveries in 2005, but it did feel healthy to go through the whole year without a hyped-to-death debut. It was a time for precocious youngsters to consolidate early gains and for veterans to return to form, return with a different focus or just return, period. What follows Read More

Post-Rock Magician Jim O’RourkeDisappears Behind Smog

Why can’t more musicians take pleasure in the anonymity that their art could potentially grant them? Think about it: Not only does music have the ability to distend time and reorder history (groovy!), but the pleasure of the playing allows us to disappear from ourselves. Look at Phil Spector. He was and is a pretty Read More