Results for The Fabs

  • The Smiths: Meat Is Murder

    by Joe PerniceJuly 23, 2008Comments (0)

    In the gutter, sugared with sand put down during the winter’s last snow, I saw written in red felt ink on masking tape stuck to a smoky-clear cassette:  “Smiths: Meat.” (read more)

  • Wear Your Beatles on Your Sleeve: Dr. Dog vs. Oasis

    by Lavinia Jones WrightMay 14, 2008Comments (4)

    Enter Oasis and Dr. Dog—an English, stadium-filling, anthemic rock band with terrifying egos, and a rootsy Philadelphia gaggle of hippies—bands that have almost nothing in common except that they wear their Beatles influences on their sleeves. When the music industry’s gaze started to shift away from the singles system and toward album-oriented rock (read more)

  • Gary Louris

    by Matt GewolbFebruary 20, 2008Comments (2)

    "consistently excellent offering of rootsy pop gem" (read more)

  • Arctic Monkeys: Whatever People Say I Am

    by Bob HillOctober 24, 2007Comments (5)

    Is it possible that the Arctic Monkeys knew something that the rest of us did not? At a moment when the UK buzz over them had already reached Fab Four proportions, when the media had their phasers set on stun (read more)

  • The Land Of the Rheostatics

    by Adam BunchAugust 1, 2007Comments (1)

    But their best album is the tragically underappreciatedThe Story of Harmelodia. It's a concept album; a children's fairytale that tells the story of Dot and Bug, a brother and sister from the dull land of Harmelodia (read more)