Category: Post No Bills

Dean Schlabowske/Searching for the Sound

Mahjongg/Fake IDs

Telefon Tel Aviv: Charles Cooper, Joshua Eustis/Strings Attached

Norm Winer/They Showed Him the Money

1.OUTKAST Speakerboxxx/The Love Below (Arista) The most fascinating record of the year was this matched set of solo albums by Outkast’s Big Boi and Andre 3000. Both are obsessed with […]

Flameshovel: Jesse Woghin, James Kenler/Brilliante: Chris Strong, Ed Menacho, Joe Wigdahl

Diverse/Sales Without the Scene

Ben Fasman, Jessica Hopper/Turntable Time for Girls

JOSH ABRAMS Cipher (Delmark) The quartet on Cipher first got together for a one-off gig at Lula Cafe in early 2000, and bassist Josh Abrams (a founding member of rustic […]

John Stirratt/No Shortage of Songs

Sarah Dandelles/Keep Them Covered

Dwayne R. Mason/Gospel Great

Each of the following recently released music books is informative and entertaining by turns, but only the first is an unqualified success. STOMP AND SWERVE: AMERICAN MUSIC GETS HOT, 1843-1924 […]

Olivia Block/Supernatural

Punk Primer Though punk as a concept has had a profound impact on popular music, most of its original practitioners have been consigned to the footnotes of rock history. While […]