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Top Ten pulp Ice-Cream old stuff Masthead FORUM SHOP tangMail About the Author Column Archive REVIEW: Squarepusher: live in Montreal, 04/04/2004 4.18.2004 REVIEW: DJ Danger Mouse: The Grey Album 3.14.2004 REVIEW: Seekonk: For Barbara Lee 3.12.2004 REVIEW: Squarepusher: Ultravisitor 3.12.2004 REVIEW: Liz Phair: s/t 5.2.2004 REVIEW: Evan Dando: Baby I'm Bored 3.4.2004 REVIEW: Enon: Hocus Pocus 3.4.2004 REVIEW: Spokane: Measurement 2.12.2004 REVIEW: Impossible Shapes: We Like It Wild 1.29.2004 REVIEW: Jim Bryson: The North Side Benches 1.25.2004 INTERVIEW: The Locust 1.23.2004 REVIEW: The Stills: Logic Will Break Your Heart 1.23.2004 REVIEW: Ghosts & Vodka: Drunks & Addicts 1.23.2004 REVIEW: Isobel Campbell: Amorino 1.18.2004 REVIEW: The Flaming Lips: Yoshimi Battle The Pink Robots 5.1 1.16.2004 Andrew's Best of 2003 1.15.2004 Sean's Favourite Songs of 2003 1.11.2004 REVIEW: The Red Hot Valentines: Summer Fling 1.8.2004 REVIEW: Missy Elliott: This Is Not A Test! 1.7.2004 REVIEW: The Weekend: Teaser + Bonus Level 1.4.2004 David's Best of 2003 1.1.2004 Kevin's Best of 2003 12.30.2003 Sean's Best of 2003 12.29.2003 REVIEW: Sufjan Stevens: Michigan 12.26.2003 REVIEW: Denali: The Instinct 12.25.2003 REVIEW: Fountains of Wayne Welcome Interstate Managers 12.23.2003 REVIEW: Imaginary Maps: Imaginary Maps 12.14.2003 REVIEW: Billy Bragg: Must I Paint You A Picture? 12.8.2003 REVIEW: Dandy Warhols: Welcome to the Monkey House 11.17.2003 REVIEW: Kid Koala: Some Of My Best Friends Are DJs 11.13.2003 REVIEW: REM: In Time: The Best of REM 11.10.2003 REVIEW: Outkast: Speakerboxxx/The Love Below 11.2.2003 REVIEW: Mando Diao: Bring 'Em In 10.30.2003 REVIEW: Merzbow: Animal Magnetism 10.26.2003 REVIEW: V/A: Branches and Routes - a FatCat Compilation 10.24.2003 REVIEW: The Appleseed Cast: Two Conversations 10.23.2003 REVIEW: Josh Rouse: 1972 10.19.2003 REVIEW: Mean Red Spiders: Still Life Fast Moving 10.19.2003 REVIEW: Tora! Tora! Torrance!: A Cynic's Nightmare 10.17.2003 REVIEW: Silver Mt. Zion: ''This Is Our Punk-Rock,'' Thee Rusted Satellites Gather + Sing 10.14.2003 REVIEW: P.W. Long: Remembered 10.9.2003 REVIEW: Soft Canyon: Broken Spirit, I Will Mend Your Wings 10.8.2003 REVIEW: Destroyer: This Night 10.5.2003 REVIEW: Pink Grease: All Over You 10.1.2003 REVIEW: Mates of State: live in Montreal, 24/09/03 9.29.2003 REVIEW: The Long Winters: When I Pretend to Fall 9.25.2003 REVIEW: Client: Client 9.25.2003 REVIEW: The Meligrove Band: Let It Grow 9.23.2003 REVIEW: Xiu Xiu/The Jim Yoshii Pile-Up: Insound Tour Split EP 9.18.2003 REVIEW: The Weakerthans: Reconstruction Site 9.15.2003 REVIEW: Kid 606: live in Montreal, 17/08/03 9.4.2003 REVIEW: Paper Moon: One Thousand Reasons to Stay... 9.3.2003 REVIEWS: Warsawpack, Chris Lee, and Bear Left 9.1.2003 REVIEW: The Flaming Lips: live in Montreal, 13/08/03 8.17.2003 REVIEW: Jorma Whittaker: self-titled 8.15.2003 REVIEW: The Locust: Plague Soundscapes 8.10.2003 REVIEW: Saturday Looks Good To Me: All Your Summer Songs 8.7.2003 REVIEW: Ex Models: Zoo Psychology 8.6.2003 REVIEW: Logh: The Raging Sun 8.3.2003 REVIEW: The Caribbean: History's First Know-It-All 7.31.2003 REVIEW: The Clientele: The Violet Hour 7.29.2003 REVIEW: Essex Green: The Long Goodbye 7.24.2003 REVIEW: Ui: Answers 7.23.2003 REVIEW: Okkervil River: Down the River of Golden Dreams 7.21.2003 REVIEW: Moneen: Are You Really Happy... 7.17.2003 REVIEW: The Sick Lipstick: Sting Sting Sting 7.16.2003 REVIEW: The Microphones: live in Toronto, 03/06/03 7.13.2003 REVIEW: Monsieur Guy: I Don't Know What Love Is 7.11.2003 REVIEW: Ward Churchill: In a Pig's Eye 7.10.2003 REVIEW: Enon: In This City EP 7.9.2003 REVIEW: !!!: Me And Giuliani Down By The Schoolyard EP 7.9.2003 REVIEW: Nedelle: Republic of Two 7.6.2003 REVIEW: North of America: Brothers, Sisters 7.3.2003 REVIEW: Birddog: Songs From Willipa Bay 7.3.2003 REVIEW: P:ano: When It's Dark and It's Summer 6.29.2003 REVIEW: Kinski: Semaphore EP 6.29.2003 REVIEW: The Robot Ate Me: They Ate Themselves 6.29.2003 REVIEW: Gatsby's American Dream: Ribbons and Sugar 6.26.2003 REVIEW: The Fruit Bats: Mouthfuls 6.25.2003 Hail to the Thief in 50 Words 6.25.2003 REVIEW: Nina Nastasia: Run to Ruin 6.22.2003 REVIEW: Fog: Ether Teeth 6.19.2003 REVIEW: M. Ward: Transfigurations of Vincent 6.18.2003 REVIEW: Clown Down: Living Alone 6.17.2003 REVIEW: Blur: Think Tank 6.16.2003 REVIEW: I Am Spoonbender: Shown Actual Size EP 6.16.2003 REVIEW: Mico: Outside the Unbearable Grows 6.1.2003 REVIEW: The Dears: No Cities Left 5.29.2003 REVIEW: The Flaming Lips: Fight Test EP 5.29.2003 REVIEW: The Thermals: More Parts Per Million 5.25.2003 REVIEW: Josh Canova: Common Divide 5.22.2003 REVIEW: Hellacopters: By the Grace of God 5.21.2003 REVIEW: Funky Porcini: Fast Asleep 5.19.2003 REVIEW: The Postal Service: Give Up 5.15.2003 REVIEW: The Postal Service: Such Great Heights EP 5.15.2003 REVIEW: Wilco: More Like the Moon EP 5.15.2003 REVIEW: The New Pornographers: Electric Version 5.11.2003 REVIEW: Cursive: The Ugly Organ 5.7.2003 REVIEW: Grateful Dead: American Beauty 5.4.2003 REVIEW: Grateful Dead: Workingman's Blues 5.4.2003 REVIEW: Grateful Dead: Aoxomoxoa 5.4.2003 REVIEW: Grateful Dead: Live/Dead 5.4.2003 REVIEW: Grateful Dead: Anthem for the Sun 5.4.2003 REVIEW: Grateful Dead: The Grateful Dead 5.4.2003 A Panel Discussion on the Grateful Dead 5.4.2003 REVIEW: Smoking Popes: The Party's Over and Tribute 4.25.2003 REVIEW: Puerto Muerto: ...Your Bloated Corpse Has Washed Ashore 4.24.2003 REVIEW: Jolie Holland: Catalpa 4.21.2003 REVIEW: American Hi-Fi: The Art of Losing 4.18.2003 REVIEW: The Bloodthirsty Lovers: s/t 4.14.2003 REVIEW: Fischerspooner: #1 4.10.2003 REVIEW: Broken Social Scene: You Forgot it in People 4.6.2003 REVIEW: Libertines: Up the Bracket 4.5.2003 REVIEW: Idlewild: The Remote Part 4.4.2003 REVIEW: John Rifle: Fracas Nurture 4.4.2003 REVIEW: Inner: lovetheonlyway 3.30.2003 REVIEW: Luna: Close Cover Before Striking EP 3.28.2003 REVIEW: Loch Ness Mouse: Key West 3.27.2003 REVIEW: The Caribbean: Verse by Verse 3.20.2003 REVIEW: Radiogram: All the Way Home 3.19.2003 REVIEW: Various Artists: City of God OST 3.16.2003 REVIEW: Dirty Three: She Has No Strings Apollo 3.13.2003 REVIEW: The Graves: Love*Love*Love 3.13.2003 REVIEW: David Singer & The Sweet Science: Civil Wars 3.7.2003 REVIEW: Rainer Maria: Long Knives Drawn 3.6.2003 REVIEW: Damien Jurado: Where Shall You Take Me? 3.3.2003 REVIEW: The Music: self-titled 3.2.2003 REVIEW: Love of Everything: friENDS 2.27.2003 REVIEW: Rilo Kiley: The Execution of All Things 2.27.2003 REVIEW: Tora! Tora! Torrance!: Get Into It 2.23.2003 REVIEW: The Frames: Breadcrumb Trail [Live] 2.22.2003 REVIEW: The Blow: Bonus Album 2.21.2003 REVIEW: Songs:Ohia: The Magnolia Electric Co 2.19.2003 REVIEW: Owen: No Good for No One 2.14.2003 REVIEW: The Microphones: Mt. Eerie 2.10.2003 REVIEW: Mountain Goats: Tallahassee 2.9.2003 REVIEW: Devendra Banhart: Oh Me Oh My... 2.1.2003 REVIEW: Logh: Every Time a Bell Rings an Angel Gets His Wings 1.29.2003 REVIEW: Shearwater: Everybody Makes Mistakes 1.20.2003 The Best Albums of 2002 1.13.2003 REVIEW: The Streets: Original Pirate Material 1.7.2003 REVIEW: Death Cab for Cutie: You Can Play These Songs with Chords 12.30.2002 REVIEW: Badly Drawn Boy: Have You Fed the Fish? 12.22.2002 REVIEW: Torrez: The Evening Drag 12.20.2002 REVIEW: Tanakh: Villa Claustrophobia 12.15.2002 REVIEW: Ernesto Diaz-Infante & Chris Forsyth: March 12.3.2002 REVIEW: Black Moth Super Rainbow: The Most Wonderful Thing 11.18.2002 REVIEW: The Flaming Sideburns: Save Rock'n roll 11.11.2002 REVIEW: Thalia Zedek: You're A Big Girl Now EP 11.4.2002 REVIEW: Acid Mothers Temple: Electric Heavyland 10.30.2002 REVIEW: Helms: The Swimmer 10.28.2002 REVIEW: John Vanderslice: Life and Death of an American Fourtracker 10.25.2002 REVIEW: Helms: McCarthy 10.19.2002 REVIEW: matt pond PA: The Nature of Maps 10.16.2002 REVIEW: Beck: Sea Change 10.7.2002 REVIEW: Coldplay: A Rush of Blood to the Head 10.6.2002 REVIEW: Spoon: Kill the Moonlight 10.2.2002 REVIEW: Mike Johnson: What Would You Do 10.2.2002 REVIEW: Loaded Dreams: In It But Not Of It 9.25.2002 REVIEW: Sixteen Horsepower: Folklore 9.22.2002 REVIEW: Young and Sexy: Stand Up For Your Mother 9.18.2002 REVIEW: Bandits of the Acoustic Revolution: A Call to Arms 9.14.2002 REVIEW: Warsawpack: Gross Domestic Product 9.11.2002 REVIEW: Fairgrove: Good Luck 9.8.2002 REVIEW: Mundy: 24 Star Hotel 8.29.2002 REVIEW: Seana Carmody: Struts & Shocks 8.29.2002 REVIEW: Damien Rice: O 8.24.2002 REVIEW: Pedal Steel Transmission: In the Winter... 8.24.2002 REVIEW: Hem: Rabbit Songs 8.18.2002 REVIEW: Aaron Booth: Transparent 8.18.2002 REVIEW: Tegan & Sara: If It Was You 8.14.2002 REVIEW: Kepler: Missionless Days 8.12.2002 REVIEW: Hank Dogs: Half Smile 8.10.2002 REVIEW: Tiger Saw: Blessed Are The Trials We Will Find 8.7.2002 REVIEW: Seldom: Romance 8.4.2002 REVIEW: Reindeer Section: Son of Evil Reindeer 7.28.2002 REVIEW: Victory at Sea: Carousel 7.28.2002 REVIEW: C.O.C.O.: The C.O.C.O. Sound 7.28.2002 REVIEW: Mirah: Advisory Committee 7.22.2002 REVIEW: Aloha: Sugar 7.22.2002 REVIEW: Mayday: Old Blood 7.22.2002 The Mix CD 7.14.2002 REVIEW: Ral Partha Vogelbacher: The More Nice Fey Elven Gnomes Are Hiding In My Toilet Again 7.8.2002 REVIEW: Nina Nastasia: The Blackened Air 7.8.2002 REVIEW: Bright Eyes: There is No Beginning to the Story EP 7.2.2002 REVIEW: Josh Ritter: Golden Age of Radio 7.2.2002 REVIEW: Thee More Shallows: A History of Sport Fishing 7.2.2002 REVIEW: Lori McKenna: Pieces of Me 6.24.2002 REVIEW: The Czars: The Ugly People vs. The Beautiful People 6.24.2002 REVIEW: Love of Everything: piano.bedroom.florida 6.24.2002 REVIEW: 27: Animal Life 6.16.2002 REVIEW: The Perishers: From Nothing to One 6.16.2002 REVIEW: Rocking Horse Winner: Horizon 6.16.2002 REVIEW: The Boggs: We Are the Boggs We Are 6.10.2002 REVIEW: Randy: Cheater EP 6.10.2002 REVIEW: Norfolk & Western: Winter Farewell 6.10.2002 REVIEW: Blake Hazard: Little Airplane 6.10.2002 REVIEW: Okkervil River: Don't Fall in Love with Everyone You See 6.2.2002 REVIEW: Andrea Maxand: Angel Hat 6.2.2002 REVIEW: Boy: Boy 6.2.2002 REVIEW: The Birdwatcher: Afternoon Tales the Morning Never Knew 5.27.2002 REVIEW: Scott Cooper: Strumming 5.27.2002 REVIEW: Geoff Farina: Blobscape 5.19.2002 REVIEW: Belle & Sebastian: Storytelling 5.19.2002 REVIEW: The Break: The Break 5.19.2002 REVIEW: Greg Macpherson Band: Good Times Coming Back Again 5.12.2002 REVIEW: Legends of Rodeo: A Thousand Friday Nights 5.12.2002 REVIEW: Mellonova: Slightly Happy 5.12.2002 REVIEW: Wilco: Yankee Hotel Foxtrot 5.5.2002 REVIEW: Minus Story: Moebius Syndrome 5.5.2002 REVIEW: Pilate: For All That's Given, Wasted 5.5.2002 REVIEW: Tom Waits: Blood Money / Alice 4.29.2002 REVIEW: Gomez: In Our Gun 4.29.2002 REVIEW: Songs:Ohia: Didn't it Rain 4.22.2002 REVIEW: Lucksmiths: Where Were We? 4.22.2002 REVIEW: Do Make Say Thing: goodbye enemy airship the landlord is dead 4.22.2002 The Three Albums to Watch 4.15.2002 REVIEW: The Hives: Veni Vidi Vicious 4.8.2002 REVIEW: John Vanderslice: Time Travel is Lonely 4.8.2002 REVIEW: Rosie Thomas: When We Were Small 4.8.2002 REVIEW: Gillian Welch: Time (The Revelator) 4.1.2002 REVIEW: Damien Jurado & Gathered in Song: I Break Chairs 4.1.2002 REVIEW: Badly Drawn Boy: About a Boy 3.31.2002 REVIEW: Ballboy: Club Anthems 3.26.2002 REVIEW: Pedro the Lion: Control 3.26.2002 REVIEW: Eels: Souljacker 3.26.2002 REVIEW: Notwist: Neon Golden 3.9.2002 REVIEW: Paul Brady: Nobody Knows 3.9.2002 REVIEW: Mark Hollis: Mark Hollis 3.9.2002 REVIEW: Yo La Tengo: And then nothing turned itself inside-out 3.1.2002 REVIEW: Songs:Ohia: Axxess & Ace 3.1.2002 REVIEW: Veda Hille: Field Study 3.1.2002 REVIEW: Bear Left: you, me, we... 2.23.2002 REVIEW: The Frames: Dance the Devil 2.23.2002 REVIEW: Paloma: Paloma 2.23.2002 REVIEW: Mike Marshall & Darol Anger: The Duo Live 2.23.2002 REVIEW: Neil Halstead: Sleeping on Roads 2.16.2002 REVIEW: Chin: Day Dreaming 2.16.2002 REVIEW: Michael McGoldrick and John McSherry: At First Light 2.16.2002 REVIEW: Langley Schools Music Project: Innocence & Despair 2.16.2002 REVIEW: The Darkest of the Hillside Thickets: Spaceship Zero 2.16.2002 The Best Music of 2001 1.24.2002 REVIEW: Punters: Will You Wait 1.17.2002 REVIEW: Fin Fang Foom: Texture, Structure and the Condition of Moods 1.17.2002 REVIEW: Alejandro Escovedo: A Man Under the Influence 1.17.2002 REVIEW: Carson Downie Band: All the Way 1.17.2002 REVIEW: Julie Doiron: Desormais 1.17.2002 REVIEW: Rah Bras: Ruy Blas! 1.17.2002 REVIEW: Righteous Boy: I Sing Because of You 11.3.2001 REVIEW: Atari Star: And Other Smaller, Brighter Worlds 11.3.2001 REVIEW: Pedro the Lion: It's Hard to Find a Friend 8.24.2001 Radiohead's requiem 8.24.2001 REVIEW: Beta Band: Hotshots II 8.2.2001 REVIEW: Kelly Brock: So Close 7.27.2001 REVIEW: Sarah Harmer: You Were Here 7.21.2001 Music to Cry To 7.13.2001 REVIEW: David Gray: Lost Songs 7.12.2001 Music for Critics and Music for Us 7.6.2001 REVIEW: Various Artists: Colonel Jeffrey Pumpernickel 7.5.2001 Internet Music - the lowdown 6.29.2001 REVIEW: Various Artists: Dublab Presents: Freeways 6.29.2001 Fashion and Music 6.22.2001 REVIEW: Ben Davis: The Hushed Patterns of Relief 6.21.2001 Band Names 6.15.2001 REVIEW: Ben Folds: Rockin' the Suburbs 6.15.2001 Stop Dancing 6.7.2001 REVIEW: Weakerthans: Left and Leaving 6.7.2001 Some thoughts on Quality 6.1.2001 REVIEW: Kings of Convenience: Kings of Convenience 6.1.2001 Top 10 of 2000 5.25.2001 REVIEW: Weezer: Weezer (The Green Album) 5.25.2001 REVIEW: Sigur Ròs: Ágætis Byrjun 5.18.2001 Thoughts on Beatles impersonators 5.18.2001 REVIEW: Radiohead: Amnesiac 4.18.2001 Disclaimer | Email Us | Dance! 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