Cloudspeakers

If a bell is broken, is it still a bell? I am plagued by thoughts such as these. It reminds me of the Wire album title, A Bell is a Cup...Until It Is Struck. These kinds of statements and questions... Read more

A Sunny Day In Glasgow's Ashes Grammar was the rare album that not only worked most strongly as a whole, but actually flowed seamlessly as one extensive piece of music. The Philadelphia dream pop o... Read more

Ted Leo is very possibly the most likable man in rock music. He's the kind of guy who keeps on playing a show even after the power goes out. He'll play a cover of the Yeah Yeah Yeahs'"Maps" and seg... Read more

Somewhere there is a girl who primarily wears knit clothes and has colorful barrettes in her asymmetrical haircut. She spends a lot of time baking cupcakes, while wistfully imagining that she lives... Read more

"We're not all the same in this town"I'll be honest; I was really worried about this one. Midlake seemed destined for a metaphorical crash. The Denton, Texas band morphed with each album, changing ... Read more

Before my copy of IRM arrived I foolishly watched the ultra-disturbing film AntiChrist, rife with self-mutilation and un-sensual sexual mind games between a tormented coupled after the death of the... Read more

"The album is named Know Better Learn Faster because you can't. By the time you realize you should, it's too late," explains Thao Nguyen on her third full-length album. Best known for lively, exube... Read more

Titus Andronicus frontman Patrick Stickles wrote a lengthy screed last fall on the band's blog, recounting the story of how he was (forcibly) denied entry into a Vice-sponsored Halloween party that... Read more

It's been six long years since we last heard from Miles Kurosky. I know a lot of you might be saying, "Ummm....who?" Well, refrain from embarrassing yourself by saying that. Instead, bone up on you... Read more

The idea of reviewing a Pavement best of compilation is at once daunting and thrilling. More so than just an assessment of the retrospective released on longtime record label Matador and fittingly,... Read more