Matangi, M.I.A.’s fourth studio album, is a vast improvement over her previous album, MAYA, but falls very short of the potential seen in her first two albums.  Promoted as her “spiritual album”, I can’t help but feel that her notion…

When a band reaches the rarefied heights that Arcade Fire attained after 2010’s The Suburbs, it is to be expected that their follow up would receive a great deal of attention.  When you couple that expectation with the band taking on…

When Vampire Weekend released their self-titled debut album in 2008, I was not what you would call impressed… quite the opposite.  I found their blend of African rhythms, quasi-punk, stupid name, and over dependence on vocal effects grating at best… juvenile and pretentious…

Sometimes, how a bit of music sounds in snippets does not translate into a full album.  When Mrs. Blahg played a few such snippets of Small Black‘s sophomore album, Limits of Desire, I didn’t hesitate to download the whole thing……

If Sade and Spandau Ballet were to have had a baby, the result would have been Rhye, an L.A. based duo comprised of Canadian musician and vocalist Mike Milosh and Danish musician Robin Hannibal.  Their debut album, Woman, may be…