Reviews 
Review: The Second Gleam
The Avett Brothers– The Second Gleam By Matthew Ralph The announcement earlier this summer of the Avett Brothers’ plans to release their next full-length album on American Recordings/Columbia Records has helped to create added buzz for this eight-song EP. New attention aside, the Avett Brothers are hardly new kids on the block. Their 11th release […]
Review: Beck’s Modern Guilt
Beck – Modern Guilt Dan MacIntosh Beck albums, like Odelay, set the imaginary artistic expectation bar extremely high. This man/boy is capable of anything, we were (and are) led to believe. How many alternative artists can move from country, to blues, to hip-hop so seamlessly? That’s one short list, indeed.Modern Guilt was produced by Danger […]
Neil Halstead – Oh! Mighty Engine
Neil Halstead – Oh! Mighty Engine Matthew Ralph On the eve of the release of Neil Halstead’s latest solo offering, I had a dream I was in a college cafeteria watching Halstead perform. It was awful. He played one Mojave 3 song and then kept playing what sounded like the same holdover from the […]