Dear God, I Hate Myself is not an album for everyone. Xiu Xiu seems almost deliberately alienating, making music that is disquieting and claustrophobic.
You get the sense that a more discerning edit may have made a classic out of Have One On Me, but the relentless excess dooms it to unevenness.
This Thursday in Reynolds Theater, Andy Warhol’s spirit will be channeled through the modern rock of Dean & Britta, performing music to accompany a showing of the artist’s “Screen Tests.”
Gorilla Manor, the first full-length release from Los Angeles quintet Local Natives, sounds like the work of a much more accomplished band, well-formed and generally agreeable.
But though this is no Mezzanine 2.0, it’s also not 101st Window, for which all trip-hop fans are grateful. Yes, Massive Attack is truly back, and with style and flair.
Saxophonist Miguel Zenon is kicking off Duke Performances’ mini jazz festival WAIL! tonight. The Puerto Rican musician, now living in New York, recently ended a sensational decade that in 2008...
Odd Blood's aesthetic clearly diverges from All Hour Cymbals, and Yeasayer executes it with aplomb.
To understand who Ravi Coltrane is, you have to start by understanding who he’s not.
The Indo-Pak Coalition, and band leader Rudresh Mahanthappa, will be making their North Carolina debut this Saturday at Duke Performances’s WAIL! jazz saxophone festival. Synthesizing jazz with...
One Night Stand is Hot Chip’s way of declaring, “We are consistent!” With nary an unlistenable song, look for this record on 2010 best-of lists come December.
