Email Author Jonah Flicker

2007 Stories by Jonah Flicker

• Saga of the Simian Samurai

  published December 12, 2007

  The teaming up of venerated MCs with esteemed producers has reaped fantastic results over the past few years. From Kool Keith and Dan the... More >>

• Jose Gonzalez

  published November 21, 2007

  It was only a matter of time before a Jose Gonzalez song appeared during the sappy monologue that closes every episode of Scrubs. His... More >>

• Vanessa Carlton

  published November 7, 2007

  Irv Gotti, the mastermind behind the infectiously nettlesome Ja Rule and Ashanti, now counts piano-playing chanteuse Vanessa Carlton as part of... More >>

• Hear This

  published October 24, 2007

  On its 2005 debut for Jagjaguwar, Canadian collective Black Mountain brewed up an intoxicating batch of homegrown rock. Stephen McBean's... More >>

• The New Pornographers' Feel Good Rush

  published September 12, 2007

  A.C. Newman, the New Pornographers' driving force and principal songwriter, has a bone to pick with music critics who lump the band into the... More >>

• Beat Box

  published August 15, 2007

  In hip hop, having a variety of aliases is as common as talking about problems with shady record labels. MF Doom has plenty of the former... More >>

• Digitalism

  published August 8, 2007

  These days, the rock clique feels no shame getting cozy with boom-thwack club tracks, thanks to the guitar- and synth-wielding purveyors of... More >>

• French robots rule! Daft Punk takes the lead at the summer's biggest dance party

  published July 25, 2007

  Daft Punk, the French faux-bot duo that's been tweaking knobs and lifting late-night spirits for more than a decade, has recently ventured... More >>

• Art Brut

  published June 27, 2007

  Rock music OS X Version 10.8.9 landed with a lunar-module splashdown last year in the form of Art Brut's debut, Bang Bang Rock & Roll. This... More >>

• Radio Birdman: still tuned into the good shit

  published June 13, 2007

  "Keeping it real" is overrated — better to keep it really retarded. The cryptic quartet No Doctors infiltrated the Bay Area in 2004... More >>

• Two! Hyped! Bands! In! One! Week!

  published May 30, 2007

  Hold Steady frontman Craig Finn describes his band's brand of verbose, guitar-driven splendor as "classic rock with a small ‘c'."... More >>

• Daring Daedelus

  published May 16, 2007

  Los Angeles laptop wunderkind Alfred Darlington, better known as Daedelus, is something of a knob-twiddling wisecracker in a genre known for being... More >>

• The anything-but-subtle songwriting drama of Mr. Patrick Wolf

  published May 16, 2007

  Singer Sam Prekop's breathy vocals have anchored the Sea and Cake 's indie rock/jazz fusion over the course of the group's 14-year career.... More >>

• Indie rock rules the roost: Modest Mouse and Meat Puppets

  published May 9, 2007

  A wealth of great talent has emerged from New Orleans over the years, but few artists from the last half century can match Allen Toussaint... More >>

• Spooner Oldham: hitchhiking Drive By Trickers country rock ride

  published May 2, 2007

  Cloud Cult 's sprawling new album, The Meaning of 8, is a joyous affair, marrying '90s indie rock guitar jangle with quirky... More >>

• Breaking With the Safety Dance

  published April 25, 2007

  The dance-punk movement has received plenty of flak since its resurgence at the turn of this nascent century. Part of the problem is that it's... More >>

• Kaiser Chiefs

  published April 25, 2007

  The British Invasion of 2004-2005 was a brutal offensive. The Futureheads, Franz Ferdinand, and Maximo Park coordinated their melodic post-punk... More >>

• The Fucking Champs

  published April 4, 2007

  The Fucking Champs lapped Led Zeppelin a few years ago in their quest for metal dominance. The muted power chord chops that the former band, now... More >>

• Cyann & Ben

  published March 28, 2007

  From the first candied vocal harmonies that float in over a morose bed of guitars and keys on Cyann & Ben's new full-length, the French quartet's... More >>

• TV on the Radio: no one dislikes these dudes

  published March 28, 2007

  Brooklyn quintet TV on the Radio is the loft party no one expected to get so poppin'. Producer Dave Sitek's re-amped analog skronks are... More >>

• Metal boys and their Lesbian lovers

  published March 21, 2007

  Christened with a deliberately deceptive moniker, the hirsute lads in Seattle's Lesbian marry psychedelic metal with prog rock for... More >>

• Do Make Say Think

  published March 7, 2007

  The world of indie rock has never really embraced the concept of the instrumental jam band. The few exceptions that (barely) fit into that... More >>

• Slicing the '60s

  published February 14, 2007

  It's hard to hear the '60s-influenced, lo-fi indie pop of San Francisco's Papercuts and not want to wrap yourself up in their blanket of... More >>

• Misc. Reviews

  published January 31, 2007

  The early '90s are often extolled as the golden era of indie rock, when burgeoning scenes in Louisville, Memphis, and other American heartland... More >>

• Post-everything

  published January 31, 2007

  Remember the dance-punk explosion of this new millennium's early days? Punk rock riffs mixed nonchalantly with disco beats at sweaty shows... More >>