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Articles Written by: JOE TANGARI
In 2008, it's nearly impossible to imagine U2 as teenagers rehearsing in a Dublin kitchen. Today, they're a powerful brand, a group with closets full of Grammys, more than 170 million records sold worldwide, stadium tours, membership in the Rock and ...
From JOE TANGARI,
Pitchfork,
24 Jul 2008
Lackthereof is the solo musical identity of Menomena's Danny Seim, but don't call it a side project: Seim had been producing self-released albums under the alias for years by the time he linked with Brent Knopf and Justin Harris to form Menomena. Seim ...
From JOE TANGARI,
Pitchfork,
23 Jul 2008
More than 30 years into his career, Paul Weller has made his most varied and surprising album. He's made plenty of good and even great records in the past, with the Jam, the Style Council and on his own, but 22 Dreams is really something unique in his ...
From JOE TANGARI,
Pitchfork,
22 Jul 2008
Mark E. Smith has been waiting his whole life to write "50 Year Old Man". It's the song he was born to sing, the song for which he's essentially spent an entire career spanning somewhere in the neighborhood of 26 studio albums rehearsing. Oh, he's ...
From JOE TANGARI,
Pitchfork,
11 Jul 2008
marks an unexpected turning point in the 30-year history of Wire: It's their first album that doesn't feature all the original members. When drummer Robert Gotobed (née Robert Grey) temporarily fired himself from the band in 1990, reasoning that drum ...
From JOE TANGARI,
Pitchfork,
10 Jul 2008
Sometimes, an album takes you so by surprise that it takes days to get your mind around just how much you like it. Hanggai's debut was like that for me-- this record floored me the first time I played it. Simply described, this album takes traditional ...
From JOE TANGARI,
Pitchfork,
10 Jul 2008
Earlier this year, Britain's Soundway Records returned to compiling West African music after a four-year break. Not that those four years were spent lounging about in their pajamas--they reissued 45s from Colombia, Barbados, Nigeria, and elsewhere in ...
From JOE TANGARI,
Pitchfork,
7 Jul 2008
It was once easy to think of James Blackshaw as an inheritor of the Takoma tradition, a school of searching acoustic guitar playing pioneered by John Fahey, Robbie Basho, Leo Kottke, and others in the 1960s. But listening to the English guitarist's new ...
From JOE TANGARI,
Pitchfork,
18 Jun 2008
If you're a fan of classic music from the African continent, you're living in rich times. Interest in the music outside of the communities it was made in is at an all-time high, and there is a new crop of intrepid reissue labels willing to put in ...
From JOE TANGARI,
Pitchfork,
17 Jun 2008
Over their last few albums, Windsor for the Derby have traveled steadily further from their roots in 1990s post-rock and into the realm of melodic indie pop. Vocals went from being little smears in the mix to fully-formed, coherent carriers of melody ...
From JOE TANGARI,
Pitchfork,
16 Jun 2008
