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

The Swedish Invasion, Moody-Crooner Contingent

If, in recent years, the U.S. has suffered a trade deficit in hyped rock acts, blame Canada—and the U.K., of course—but don’t overlook Sweden, a country that’s lately been exporting plenty of shaggy-looking dudes with guitars. Many of the Swedes who’ve made it to our shores offer strident, amped-up rock ’n ’roll, but there are Read More