Rock

Vinyl LP. Once pure 'n' simple punk, the Texas-based Indie rock quartet's newly-engineered sound is full of experimental and psychedelic hints. Part of this has to do with the addition of guitarist Austin Jenkins, whose bluesy, country quality lends a...

Vinyl LP. Multi-instrumentalist John Barrett goes on a spree of genres while sinking his teeth into his one-man band's self-titled album "Bass Drum of Death." This 2013 album is Barrett's sophomore effort. Although he dabbles in many styles of rock, the...

Vinyl LP. Loud, understated indie rock is the hallmark of Band of Horses. Their melancholy approach to music drew high praise from fans and critics on 2007's album "Cease to Begin." It is a carefully crafted album that worked it's way up to #1 on The Top...

Vinyl LP. Limited to 500.

Vinyl LP. Indie post-punk from Brooklyn fuels a night of partying-riding from the highs to the lulls back to new highs one hopes will never end on Bear Hands' second studio album "Distraction." This 2014 release spun two hits in the form of "Giants" and...

Vinyl LP. In the words of critic Tim Sendra, "if Wild Nothing's debut album, "Gemini," consisted of nothing more than the song "Summer Holiday" and 25 minutes of a dial tone, it would still be one of the best records to come out of the lo-fi, reverb pop...

Vinyl LP. Few punk acts from the '70s are still going strong, but Jello Biafra is an unstopable force of nature. A liberal satirist at heart, this former front man for The Dead Kennedys raises holy Hell with the policies of George W. Bush, California's...

Vinyl LP. Boston-area music fans are familiar with this little indie pop-rock outfit. Bent Shapes performs all of their own songs written with modern lyrics, about modern life with the drumming beat of an early '60s bubble gum rock band. They are handy...

Vinyl LP. Bad Religion's first record for a major label (Atlantic Records) opens with two guns blazing and doesn't stop firing until both sides of "Recipe for Hate" are played out. Battling it out for more than a decade in L.A.'s punk scene with their...

Vinyl LP. Antony & The Johnsons pull back from their louder, more flamboyant debut album on their second studio album for a more intimate and bluesy experience. It gets closer to Antony's roots as an androgynous cabaret celebrity. 2005's "I am a Bird...

Vinyl LP. After noodling around with emo-laden heartbreak and self-defeating obsessions in the band Carissa's Weird, Ben Birdwell (vocals and guitar) and Mat Brooke (bass) formed Band of Horses in 2004. This is that band's first album: "Everything All...

Vinyl LP. "Blunderbuss" is White's first official solo album, and it comes five years after The White Stripes' last. In the meanwhile, the man has not sat still: he's been making music with The Raconteurs, Dead Weather, Third Man Records, and many others...