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Articles Written by: JASON CROCK
Note to any female singers looking for help from the production hand of TV on the Radio's David Sitek: you may fare better if you can't actually sing. (Or if you're already famous for something else, I guess.) Despite TVOTR's high-and-gaining profile, ...
From JASON CROCK,
Pitchfork,
6 Mar 2009
Shit and Shine are a collective out of England and Texas, though it's hard to say from Cherry where any one member contributes, or even where the sound manipulation stops and the band begins. The record's vocals are often sampled from unknown sources, ...
From JASON CROCK,
Pitchfork,
23 Jul 2008
Occasionally psychedelic and unabashedly noisy garage-rockers Sic Alps have grown a lot over just a smattering of singles (and one proper LP, 2006's Pleasures and Treasures), so the reverse-chronological order of this compilation puts their best foot ...
From JASON CROCK,
Pitchfork,
22 Jul 2008
We Versus the Shark never seem to want to do things the easy way. Their songs aren't so much played as they are choked within an inch of their life, twitching with unpredictable time signatures and knotty structures, filled with copious and complicated ...
From JASON CROCK,
Pitchfork,
17 Jul 2008
The Hold Steady weren't the likeliest candidates for success. Pulling together after the demise of the imaginative, verbose, and mostly overlooked indie act Lifter Puller, Craig Finn relocated to New York to start a new band. Holding to his distinctive ...
From JASON CROCK,
Pitchfork,
14 Jul 2008
It starts simply enough: you offer to put out a local band's record-- maybe friends of yours-- and you insist that it will be "huge." But you keep telling the joke. The joke becomes a motto, the motto becomes a t-shirt, the t-shirt becomes a brand, and ...
From JASON CROCK,
Pitchfork,
7 Jul 2008
As far as singles compilations go, two years might seem like a pretty narrow window. Then again, just as the two- or three-minute songs from Jay Reatard feel epic, he's given his fans a near-career's worth of riches in that time. It's true that nearly ...
From JASON CROCK,
Pitchfork,
3 Jul 2008
Even an exceptional garage-rock band might be dismissed out-of-hand for failing to transcend its genre. This happens most often with critics, but there are understandably plenty of dilettante fans who only want to hear the most innovative, top-tier ...
From JASON CROCK,
Pitchfork,
3 Jul 2008
As one of dual frontmen in Parts & Labor, Dan Friel takes the disobedient squeals of keyboards and other sundry electronics and marries them to more familiar contexts, making otherwise jaw-clenching noise surprisingly palatable while helping the two- ...
From JASON CROCK,
Pitchfork,
20 Jun 2008
Regardless of their still-burgeoning profile and local-hero charm, the supreme confidence of the M's has been apparent from the very beginning. From their first eponymous EP onwards, they've written simple, soaring melodies and cobbled together ...
From JASON CROCK,
Pitchfork,
18 Jun 2008
