Category Archives: Music

Album reviews, history, news, and more.

The First Mixtape Site of the Rest of Your Life 0

A good friend just turned me on to a new mixtape website that’s worth checking out. It’s called 8tracks. I’ll be writing a more in-depth article for Listen In sometime soon, but for now, here’s my first mix:

For Emma, Forever Ago 1

At the risk of writing something pointlessly repetitive, allow me to say for the millionth time how great Bon Iver‘s debut album For Emma, Forever Ago truly is. This album has gotten a ridiculous amount of press (especially online) lately, and was rightfully hailed as one of the best albums of 2007.It’s a musical snapshot, [...]

Portishead’s Third 0

I have a nasty habit of getting into good bands after they break up. Sonic Youth, Smashing Pumpkins… the list goes on. I first heard Portishead‘s Dummy in the late ’90s, several years after its release, at the dawn of a decade of radio silence from these Balboan trip-hoppers. But the wait is over: Third, [...]