Reviews

Modest MouseWe Were Dead Before The Ship Even SankEpicHardly known for their optimism, Isaac Brock and his coy rodent pseudo-superheroes never fail to create an album worthy of their omnipresent media-hype. Whether softly weaving through a melodic transgression of solitary longing in “Little Motel” or shifting gears with the dance-floor call-to-arms “Dashboard,” Modest Mouse remains […]

Rick WhiteMemoreaperBlue FogTwo thousand and seven was a great year for Rick White. He recorded and played on Julie Doiron’s phenomenal Woke Myself Up. And there was the critically successful Eric’s Trip reunion tour. But in between all that was this magnificent (almost forgotten) record: a psych-rock tour-de-force that showcases White’s ever-expanding mastery of the […]

Published May 12, 2005.The RaveonettesPretty In Black (Columbia)The Raveonettes’ Sharin Foo was set to replace The Cardigans’ Nina Persson as Sweden’s quirkiest and most beloved songbird, but then there was the mysterious inclusion of a Raveonettes song in an American K-Mart TV commercial. “Huh?” said fans watching the cast from WB’s Seventh Heaven grooving to […]