Jordan Langer

The eccentric album cover of Erykah Badu’s new album Return of the Ankh. Erykah Badu’s latest is supposed to be a sequel.…

For students, there’s always a week that marks the beginning of the end. There are a few indicators that everybody’s ready for…

First single, “Excuses,” uses a 60’s a.m. “Wall of Sound” recording technique (see Phil Spector) to arouse a swooningly theatrical and climatic…

I don’t know much about Hip Hop, but I hear about how it’s dead or dying. “Turn on the radio,” you say.…

Yeasayer’s Odd Blood has an astonishingly disturbingly visceral cover. First, let’s look at the album’s cover art. Yes, you’ll have to rectify…

Surfer Blood’s new album Astro Coast, a brilliant rehash of ‘90s prog-rock. In the last decade, alternative music has gained complexity. It’s…

Charlotte, the newest child of the Gainsbourg French pop music empire, just finished the record “IRM”. The garment of “Gainsbourg”—the family, the…

Beach House: Teen Dream The Brooklyn duo has been traveling with Grizzly Bear on and off over the last couple of years,…

“Pop” has always been a relative genre. Consider its history: defined by doo-wops and harmonization a half century ago, it eventually became…