By Jack Daniel Betz
As Ramon so kindly reminded you all in this week’s preview, Big Star Bar will be visited by a representative from Corwood Industries this Sunday afternoon. I am speaking of none other …

By Jack Daniel Betz
Ever since Monday I’ve been holding my breath after finding out that the Scottish noise gods cancelled their date at Denton 35. I was having unpleasant flashbacks of post-punk disappointment last summer …

By Jack Daniel Betz
I bet some people my age (22) remember a little band called The Format. In the 2000s, The Format played standard, radio-friendly, emo fare, not sentimental enough to be as embarrassing as …

By Jack Daniel Betz
I saw this coming. Maybe I’m just a killjoy but I always thought, even back when no one could shut the fuck up about it, that “Infinity Guitar” and the rest of …

By Jack Daniel Betz
I’ve been waiting a good, long, time to hear more from APTBS, ever since I caught them opening for The Big Pink two years ago. The Brooklyn band hasn’t released much …

By Jack Daniel Betz
I’ve been listening to the promo copy of this album at work for the past two weeks and before even listening through it once I’d already made up my …

By Jack Daniel Betz
Chugging diligently away, The Dead Revolt have already released their second album and it sounds markedly wiser and more disciplined. Still working within an aggressive prog rock framework, the …

By Jack Daniel Betz
While lacking the concise hits of “Saturdays=Youth”, M83’s new album succeeds because it is so thoroughly listenable is its own musical universe. There aren’t any real standouts on this LP because it …

By Jack Daniel Betz
From a critical standpoint, this my favorite DJ Shadow album thus far. “Entroducing..” has now of course reached legendary status in the music world and it was a strong …

By Jack Daniel Betz
The echoes of St. Vincent’s days as a member of the whacky Polyphonic Spree are not yet gone from her recordings. In fact, on “Strange Mercy” they’re more sonorous than …