Oh, no. "Key Party," Portland duo Childhood Friends' third album, is too dense, disconcerting and, well, disturbed to recommend for the little ones -- and just hope they won't ask you to explain the title.
Cultural Life: Ben Whishaw, Actor (Independent) 04 July 2008Books At the moment I'm not managing to read much more than Dostoyevsky's The Idiot because I'm working on a multimedia adaptation of it on stage at the National Theatre. I first read it when I was 18 or 19. I couldn't have understood much of it but it stirred my imagination.
Natasha Shneider Dies Of Cancer (ChartAttack.com) 03 July 2008Natasha Shneider , best known as the singer, keyboardist and bassist for '90s rock band Eleven, died from cancer on Wednesday at age 52.
Sigur Rós: Með suð í eyrum við spilum endalaust (Pitchfork) 03 July 2008In the near-decade since their 1999 breakthrough Ágætis Byrjun , Iceland's Sigur Rós have made pathos their playground.
Centiclubs (San Francisco Bay Guardian) 02 July 2008A threesome of venerable venues hit 100. Plus: Battlehooch, Megafaun, and more
Murphy steps out of Bauhaus' dark shadow (Boston Herald) 30 June 2008Let's get something straight: For better or worse, Peter Murphy and Bauhaus are two very different things. While Murphy's role in the legendary Goth-father...
Denali: The Instinct (Pitchfork) 27 June 2008Denali wisely journeyed beyond the dusted Southern geography of their home state when choosing an appellation.
Giant Sand Is All Over the Map (Pitchfork) 27 June 2008If you're a recent convert to what has been dubbed the New Weird America, permit me to fill you in: Howe Gelb's been living here for years.
Trashing Entertainment Weekly's 'New Classics' (Chicago Tribune) 25 June 2008Plastic Little: She's Mature (Pitchfork) 25 June 2008
There aren't a lot of funny guys in rap. Funny things are often said and done, but few rappers are the sort you want telling a story when everyone at a party shuts up and listens to just one person.