Wire, "Practice Makes Perfect" The second Wire album, Chairs Missing, was a little less frenetic than the debut record. Many of the songs are given more room to develop, with a little bit more of a drone-y feeling to some of the songs. It's still...
Well, it starts out pretty well. Boards of Canada, "Smokes Quantity" A little bit ago, when Seattle was pretty snowed in, I trundled in to work, and my travel mug popped open in my bag. Everything was soaked, ruining a nice deck of cards, a...
A Motown artist! A fake Motown artist! Big Business playing with two bands! Mayer Hawthorne, "The News" We've heard from Mayer Hawthorne before with Tuxedo, but here he is with his solo act. Hawthorne, who grew up in Ann Arbor, Michegan, not far from the...
