Album: Duality Artist: Captain Murphy Rating: 4 / 5 by Jason Walsh   In a lot of ways, Captain Murphy’s debut mixtape, Duality, is your typical rap mixtape. It was uploaded...

#1 – Dreams Say, View, Create, Shadow Leads by Dustin Wong This is the debut solo album from guitar magician Dustin Wong. Former member of art-rock band Ponytail, Wong writes songs for double digit...

Release Date: October 30, 2012 Rating: 3.5 / 5 At first glance, it's easy to write off Andrew Bird's newest release, Hands of Glory. Relative to the rest of his output, it is short both in terms...

Album: good kid, m.A.A.d city Artist: Kendrick Lamar Release Date: 10/22/2012 Rating: 4 / 5 Good Kid, Mad City(stylized good kid, m.A.A.d city) is subtitled “A Short Film by Kendrick Lamar,”...

Until I heard about its latest album, Blood v. Electricity, Unknown Component was completely foreign to me. Even odder still, what I thought was a full rock band turned out to be a music project of...

Titus Andronicus are one of, if not the, greatest rock 'n' roll band currently alive and making music. Their sophomore album, The Monitor, is unequivocally a masterpiece. It is one of the greatest albums...

Album: Nehru Jackets Artist:Himanshu Release date:January 27, 2012 Rating: 3.5 / 5 “I ain't got love handles, got thug handles” are the first lines Himanshu gives us on Nehru Jackets, his first...

Before their split in 1999, piano rockers Ben Folds Five produced three albums of songs about lives spent wandering around just outside the 1990s mainstream. Even after reaching chart success with Brick,...

The xx are all about simplicity and consistency. Their first album, xx, was released three years and one month ago, had eleven songs, ran 38.5 minutes, and had a simple black background with a white X...