Cloudspeakers

Approach noise from a quantitative end and see what happens. If you’re Yasutoshi Yoshida, this is something you’ve been waiting for all along. Resolution of Remembrance collects nearly every casset... Read more

Nothing if not consistent, Endless Boogie provides more examples of its casual approach to rock music. Full House Head is a good hour-plus demonstration of its craft. Proficient at its instruments,... Read more

Deer Tick comes to the cause of country-not-country with a savior at the front of the pack. John McCauley’s transformation from singer of a rock band to something a good bit deeper, is on display w... Read more

Two anecdotes, two chestnuts for those who have lived through more than two decades, and they’re not even worth telling in full. First: the “rock is dead” argument, posited yet again to me by a col... Read more

Jason Falkner is alive and well, and from the looks of things, thriving in Japan. His last two albums, of which I’m OK, You’re OK is the former, have yet to be issued anywhere else in the world unt... Read more

In original Aboriginal, Grong Grong means “very bad camping ground” – a land so not-nice, they named it twice. This village in New South Wales was visited upon by one Michael Farkas, besotted as he... Read more

We don’t have an American counterpart to Japan’s Yura Yura Teikoku, because rock & roll started with us. We’re not necessarily in the habit of generating bands that can wild out the last 30-40 year... Read more

Childish Prodigy, the third album by Philadelphia’s Kurt Vile in the past two years, continues the artist’s outward spread through the strata of whatever constitutes a listening public in this day ... Read more

I went through the upheaval that many of us do when our obsessions give way to new ones, when that shiny new toy in the corner – the one that pulls its own string and climbs up the walls all by its... Read more