Category Archives: Music You Should Know

DEATH CAB FOR CUTIE - I BUILT YOU A TOWER Death Cab for Cutie finds a rocking, raw sound for their 11th album, I Built You a Tower. An exhausted and frustrated sounding Ben Gibbard distilled his songs...

AUDIOSLAVE - OUT OF EXILE (VINYL REISSUE) Released in 2005, Out of Exile gave Audioslave (one of the best supergroups of the 90s) their only album to debut at the number one spot. The band sounds tigh...

COWBOY JUNKIES - OPEN TO BEAUTY: BEST OF THE 21st CENTURY Just a few months ago I got to see the Cowboy Junkies perform a moody show at the Fitzgerald theater in downtown St. Paul. It was a great remi...

GUIDED BY VOICES - CRAWLSPACE OF THE PANTHEON For a band releasing album number 43 (or 44, depending how you count it), Guided by Voices somehow still sound hungry with Crawlspace of the Pantheon. Rob...

LENNY KAYE - "GOIN' LOCAL" Stepping out of the shadow of an icon can be intimidating. It's possibly why Lenny Kaye is finally putting out his first proper solo album after decades shaping rock history...

THE BLACK KEYS - PEACHES! Peaches! is The Black Keys pulling their amps back into the garage and dusting off the records that made them want to start a band in the first place. Their fourteenth album ...

PETER GABRIEL - LIVE AT WOMAD 1982 In 1982, the first WOMAD (World of Music, Arts and Dance) festival took place to highlight music and art not typically celebrated in the mainstream. As part of the b...

THE COCKROACHES - "ROUGH AND TWISTED" The worst kept secret of Record Store Day was a slim white sleeve containing a single from The Cockroaches. Even without knowing the history of The Rolling Stones...

PETER GABRIEL - "TILL YOUR MIND IS SHINING" Peter Gabriel has always been an esoteric music maker; his ability to make the quirkiest songs hits is uncanny. It's like he lives in an alternate world and...

COURTNEY BARNETT - CREATURE OF HABIT Courtney Barnett has built her career on observational slice-of-life, and Creature of Habit continues that tradition with warmth and wit. The songs are unmistakabl...