Articles By mikael wood

Bjorkestra: An Army of Her

Wed, Mar 5, 2008, 1:04 pm

18-piece jazz ensemble takes on our favorite Icelandic art-pop diva

Oh, My Darling: Basia Bulat

Wed, Feb 13, 2008, 1:08 pm

Toronto-based singer taps into Canada's appealingly shambolic orchestral-folk movement

Brad Laner, Medicine Man

Wed, Nov 21, 2007, 10:59 am

Under any other name — even his own! — a new album still sounds as (psychedelically) sweet

Point/Counterpoint: Meet the Battling Brunettes

Wed, Sep 5, 2007, 3:00 pm

The latest twee-pop purveyors from the land down under

Totally Buzzed

Wed, Jan 31, 2007, 7:29 pm

The Bird and the Bee The Troubadour

Open Ears, Insert Deerhoof

Wed, Jan 17, 2007, 6:00 pm

Bay Area indie veterans destroy/reinvent themselves again, to charming effect

Busdriver

Wed, Jan 17, 2007, 6:00 pm

Indie rap + indie rock – moral posturing = good times!

Wings & Things

Wed, Nov 1, 2006, 6:00 pm

Reviews of Willie Nelson's Songbird and Meat Loaf's Bat Out of Hell III: The Monster Is Loose

Come On, Feel the Boys

Wed, May 24, 2006, 3:00 pm

Boy-band vets all grow’d up

White Chocolate

Wed, Mar 1, 2006, 3:00 pm

U.K.’s Hot Chip love American R&B, cars and slang. Some things never change

I Think I'm Happy

Wed, Feb 1, 2006, 6:00 pm

Of Montreal’s s’ok-to-feel-good pop (like Smile crossed with Chic)

The Freak Parade

Thu, Dec 29, 2005, 12:00 am

Nashville superweirdoes Big & Rich wrangle the Rose Bowl halftime, somehow. Nation reacts with relief, pride

A Boy Named Rogue

Thu, Dec 15, 2005, 12:00 am

You know rogue states and Rogaine; now meet Sub Pop’s Rogue Wave

Black Out the Windows

Thu, Apr 8, 2004, 12:00 am

Photo by Chris Cuffaro “The pre-production for Blackberry Belle was basically digging myself out of .…

Weird Old Ghosts

Thu, Jan 15, 2004, 12:00 am

As tortured artists go, San Francisco resident Mark Kozelek’s résumé couldn’t be stronger. For nearly…

Modestly Universal

Thu, Nov 13, 2003, 12:00 am

Photo by Michael Muller In a characteristically luminous song on the third album he made with…

Home Alone

Thu, Oct 23, 2003, 12:00 am

Storied hard-ass Shelby Lynne has better things to do than talk on the damn telephone…

Effed Up and Emotional

Thu, Sep 18, 2003, 12:00 am

Atmosphere, Aesop Rock

Scratch That Niche

Thu, Aug 14, 2003, 12:00 am

Female hip-hop trios from New York City may be a rare commodity in the pop…

Popularity Contest

Thu, Jul 24, 2003, 12:00 am

Fountains of Wayne, on the bus

Organic Mechanic

Thu, Jun 5, 2003, 12:00 am

Like quite a number of the young guys in his peer group, 25-year-old Londoner Kieran…

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