Joshua Klein

A Frames Black Forest With their clanging alleyway percussion and primitive, rudimentary guitars, Seattle's A Frames take classic indie trash-rock and infuse it with a Teutonic discipline. Minimalist rhythms and...

Crooked Fingers Dignity and Shame Irony has long been indie-rock's stock in trade, but, too often, the trait comes off as outright disinterest. It's hard to care about an artist...

The Soundtrack of Our Lives "Origin Vol. 1" By doing a dead-on recreation of spacey classic rock, Sweden's neo-psychedelic Soundtrack of Our Lives provide a valuable service for anyone too...

Judas Priest Angel of Retribution It says a lot about Judas Priest that the reunited British metal group stole last summer's Ozzfest away from not only Black Sabbath but also...

Buck 65 This Right Here Is As Buck 65, Richard Terfry may boast the dubious claim of being Nova Scotia's best-known MC, but so far his raspy country rap hasn't...

Pernice Brothers Nobody's Watching Nobody's Listening The Pernice Brothers' beautifully orchestrated power pop might not seem like it would translate well live, but Joe Pernice and crew do a surprisingly...

Dalek Absence Is Dalek a hip-hop act that dabbles in noise, or a noise act with roots in rap? Barely more than 30 seconds into the aptly named "Distorted Prose,"...

Blackfield Blackfield Porcupine Tree has done more than most to make prog-rock (almost) acceptable again, its music highlighting the link between those ultra-complex and pretentious bands of the past and...

The Chris Stamey Experience A Question of Temperature Chris Stamey proved his songwriting mettle back in the days of the dB's, but it's been a long time since he outright...

Kathleen Edwards Back to Me Kathleen Edwards' "Failer" was the kind of perfectly realized debut that, despite all the acclaim, never quite caught on with a larger audience. The equally...