Email Author Ray Cummings

2009 Stories by Ray Cummings

• The Songs We Can't Escape

  published December 30, 2009

  YOGA"Fourth... More >>

• The Songs We Can't Escape

  published December 23, 2009

  The Very... More >>

• The Songs We Can't Escape

  published December 9, 2009

  Adam... More >>

• The Songs We Can't Escape

  published December 2, 2009

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• The Songs We Can't Escape

  published November 25, 2009

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• The Songs We Can't Escape

  published November 18, 2009

  Tape Deck... More >>

• The Songs We Can't Escape

  published November 11, 2009

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• The Fiery Furnaces

  published November 11, 2009

  Until this year, being a Fiery Furnaces fan meant that one had an especially high tolerance for cracked musical-theatre narratives, live... More >>

• The Songs We Can't Escape

  published November 4, 2009

  Shakira"She... More >>

• The Songs We Can't Escape

  published October 28, 2009

  Birdman feat. More >>

• Thao with the Get Down Stay Down

  published October 21, 2009

  If Know Better Learn Faster—the new salvo from Thao Nguyen and the Get Down Stay Down—doesn't boast quite as rollicking... More >>

• The Songs We Can't Escape

  published October 21, 2009

  Julian Casablancas "11th Dimension" Phrazes for the Young?... More >>

• Aquarelle nails dreamy sweet-spot electro

  published October 21, 2009

  Ryan Potts laughs easily. That disarmingly agreeable laughter is one of the first things you notice in conversation with him: It radiates a... More >>

• The Songs We Can't Escape

  published October 14, 2009

  FASHAWN"Gone in 60 Seconds" Okay, this freestyle goes on for... More >>

• The Songs We Can't Escape

  published October 7, 2009

  AMERIE"Why R U" "I can't lose" scans as an odd opening... More >>

• Yo La Tengo

  published October 7, 2009

  Hoboken, New Jersey's Yo La Tengo have always seemed like a trio of hip older uncles and aunts: deeply dippy, good-hearted musos trailing their... More >>

• Rob Thomas

  published October 7, 2009

  Let's be honest here: Ripping on Rob Thomas is all kinds of fun. The sudden fluctuations in weight. The reliably maudlin FM radio cheese. The... More >>

• Tortoise

  published September 30, 2009

  Call it a passive-aggressive reflex: Snark-bash post-rockers long and hard enough, and eventually, they will strike back, and hard. So... More >>

• The Songs We Can't Escape

  published September 23, 2009

  WHITNEY HOUSTON"Million Dollar... More >>

• fun.

  published September 23, 2009

  Fun. hail from NYC, are a trio, and make swollen, pompous pop-rock their self-amused métier. Just what everybody needs now, right? It just... More >>

• The Songs We Can't Escape

  published September 16, 2009

  BLANK DOGS"No Compass" It's as though Blank Dogs are... More >>

• The Songs We Can't Escape

  published September 9, 2009

  A GRAVE WITH NO NAME"We Parted Ways at Mount... More >>

• Woods

  published September 9, 2009

  There's a song on Songs of Shame, the latest salvo from New York lo-fi/scuzz-psych crew Woods, that's an absolute monster of a jam.... More >>

• The Songs We Can't Escape

  published September 2, 2009

  BYGONES"Spray You with Your Own Trip" Two minutes into... More >>

• The Songs We Can't Escape

  published August 26, 2009

  THE ALL-AMERICAN REJECTS"Gives You Hell" If this... More >>