By Michael Tedder, eMusic ContributorLater this month, the legendary underground rock icons/heart-rending poets/drunken screw-ups the Replacements will play their first shows since breaking up onstage in Chicago 22 years ago. (Well, Paul Westerberg and Tommy Stinson and some other… more »
By Andrew Parks, eMusic ContributorIf you're in denial about the holidays being over, we can't think of a better way to ring in the New Year than with an encore presentation of "Countdown to Christmas," one of the few… more »
By Ian Gittins, eMusic ContributorArt Brut had their moment in the indie rock spotlight around 2005, when the excitable U.K. weekly music magazine NME proclaimed them part of an "Art Wave" movement alongside Franz Ferdinand and Bloc Party. The… more »
By Chuck Eddy, eMusic ContributorIndie-rock in the '00s was hardly the same animal as indie-rock two decades before, and much of the blame should probably go to Nirvana. In the '80s, labels like SST and Touch & Go were… more »
By Michelangelo Matos, eMusic ContributorHas any band ever made more out of absolute, insoluble rock fandom than Art Brut? Four of them make a noise — guitarists Chris Chinchilla and Ian Catskilkin on instant-buzz chainsaw riffs and chords, bassist… more »
By Matthew Fritch, eMusic ContributorBeing a rank amateur has its privileges. Just ask Art Brut, whose 2005 debut offered simple, punk-by-numbers guitar riffs and a frontman who readily poked fun at his own vocal shortcomings. But such technical mediocrity… more »
By Daphne Carr, eMusic ContributorPop music loves to look in the mirror — and Art Brut are one of the only current British bands willing to make faces in it. Their absurdly self-referential, unapologetically catchy debut, Bang Bang Rock… more »