Face Value: Fully Loaded – Inside My Head
Note: Face Value are reviews based solely on the album art. Out of all of the iconic album covers your...
Review: Xiu Xiu – Dear God, I Hate Myself
Xiu Xiu’s Jamie Stewart has never shied away from difficult emotional topics. The last six albums from this band have...
Review: The Whigs – In the Dark
Replacing the locatedness of their earlier albums with a misguided appeal to the masses, Athens, Ga.’s the Whigs, with their...
Review: Wank Punter – Plain Brown Wrapper EP
Describing themselves as obnoxious porn rock, Wank Punter is the intellectual and musical equivalent of a teenager’s wet dream. The...
Review: Titus Andronicus – The Monitor
New Jersey’s Titus Andronicus have released one of the old stand-bys in music: the concept album. On their follow-up to...
Review: The Idgets – New Is the New Old
Shawn Bergen gets my respect. On the follow up album to 2007’s Come On EP, Bergen wrote every song, played...
Review: Karyn Ellis – Even Though the Sky Was Falling
With a voice that has an ethereal quality, sounding both innocent and weathered at the same time, Karyn Ellis follows...
Review: Mark Sultan – $
Amidst working with King Khan under the name BBQ and collaborating with King Khan and the Black Lips as the...
Review: The Sweet Talks – The Kusum Beat
This formerly lost-to-the-ages 1974 release is now ready for fans/addicts to pull into their world music-collecting realm. The eleven-strong conglomerate...
Review: Small Black – EP
Although Stylus has gone half a year without a single Pitchfork mention, it’s nearly impossible to write a review of...