Stereolab

Atlas Sound

Out There 2012 at the Walker

Stage artists converge for experimental theater festival

Rick Ross health scares, a big change in the Sonic Youth dynamic: A look at the week that was

​Hey! Yo! What's up? The Week That Was is back. Sure, we've been away for a good long while, but too much crazy shit's gone down this week. Enjoy!

Ringo Deathstarr

​Hey! Yo! What's up? The Week That Was is back. Sure, we've been away for a good long while, but too much crazy shit's gone down this week. Enjoy!

5ingles

​Hey! Yo! What's up? The Week That Was is back. Sure, we've been away for a good long while, but too much crazy shit's gone down this week. Enjoy!

Janelle Monae

​Hey! Yo! What's up? The Week That Was is back. Sure, we've been away for a good long while, but too much crazy shit's gone down this week. Enjoy!

School of Seven Bells

​Hey! Yo! What's up? The Week That Was is back. Sure, we've been away for a good long while, but too much crazy shit's gone down this week. Enjoy!

Juana Molina

​Hey! Yo! What's up? The Week That Was is back. Sure, we've been away for a good long while, but too much crazy shit's gone down this week. Enjoy!

Pavement's mysterious best-of tracklist: our guesses

Okay, fists up; let's do this.

The Songs We Can't Escape

Okay, fists up; let's do this.

Estelle

Okay, fists up; let's do this.

Juana Molina

Okay, fists up; let's do this.

The Popstream: Broadcast, "Come On Let's Go"

Stereolab

Stereolab and more

5ingles

The Songs We Can't Escape

5ingles

The Songs We Can't Escape

Breakfast of Champions 4/30: Embarrassment of riches

The Songs We Can't Escape

5ingles

The Songs We Can't Escape

The Bird and the Bee: The Bird and the Bee

The Songs We Can't Escape

Mel Gibson & the Pants: Sea vs. Shining Sea

The Songs We Can't Escape

Stereolab: Fab Four Suture

The Songs We Can't Escape

Madonna: Confessions on a Dance Floor

The Songs We Can't Escape

Don't Cry For Me, Argentina

Rapping with TV star-turned-underground musician Juana Molina

This is not my beautiful house

Rapping with TV star-turned-underground musician Juana Molina

Mouse on Mars: Radical Connector

Rapping with TV star-turned-underground musician Juana Molina

How You Say Le Rock 'n' Roll?

The crystalline beauty of Air's 'Talkie Walkie' doesn't get lost in translation

Broadcast: Pendulum

The crystalline beauty of Air's 'Talkie Walkie' doesn't get lost in translation

Common: Electric Circus

The crystalline beauty of Air's 'Talkie Walkie' doesn't get lost in translation

The Clean: Anthology

The crystalline beauty of Air's 'Talkie Walkie' doesn't get lost in translation

cLOUDDEAD: S/T

The crystalline beauty of Air's 'Talkie Walkie' doesn't get lost in translation

Go West

Austin's American Analog Set take on the myth of Texas

Bleat Poet

Three reissued fusion flops from the 1970s give free-jazz giant Ornette Coleman back to the freaks

Talk Dirty to Me in Esperanto

Sonic Youth and Stereolab redefine the intimate grammar of rock, again

Mothers of Invention

Stereolab's Laetitia Sadier and Sonic Youth's Kim Gordon compare notes on motherhood, degradation, and musical longevity

Sound Check

Stereolab's Laetitia Sadier and Sonic Youth's Kim Gordon compare notes on motherhood, degradation, and musical longevity

Sound Check

Stereolab's Laetitia Sadier and Sonic Youth's Kim Gordon compare notes on motherhood, degradation, and musical longevity

Lab Culture

Stereolab's Laetitia Sadier and Sonic Youth's Kim Gordon compare notes on motherhood, degradation, and musical longevity

Ipso Post-Facto

Stereolab's Laetitia Sadier and Sonic Youth's Kim Gordon compare notes on motherhood, degradation, and musical longevity

Various Artists: Warp 100: We Are Reasonable People

Stereolab's Laetitia Sadier and Sonic Youth's Kim Gordon compare notes on motherhood, degradation, and musical longevity

The Sound of One Fan Clapping

If a local CD falls into the retail bins, does it make a sound? Peter S. Scholtes reviews this month's batch of releases.

Drop Your Shorts

Bit player: Beth Orton's new EP makes a statement in 24:49.

1973 Music

Bit player: Beth Orton's new EP makes a statement in 24:49.

Eight Miles High

A Pilgrimage to Pleasant: Sean O'Hagen (center) channels Brian Wilson's California dream on the High Llamas'

MUSIC: Väsen

A Pilgrimage to Pleasant: Sean O'Hagen (center) channels Brian Wilson's California dream on the High Llamas'

Stereolab: Dots and Loops

A Pilgrimage to Pleasant: Sean O'Hagen (center) channels Brian Wilson's California dream on the High Llamas'

Commercial Rock Radio Still Sucks

A Pilgrimage to Pleasant: Sean O'Hagen (center) channels Brian Wilson's California dream on the High Llamas'

Number One Cup by Wrecked By Lions

A Pilgrimage to Pleasant: Sean O'Hagen (center) channels Brian Wilson's California dream on the High Llamas'

WORLD MUSIC '96

A Pilgrimage to Pleasant: Sean O'Hagen (center) channels Brian Wilson's California dream on the High Llamas'

Record Roundup

A Pilgrimage to Pleasant: Sean O'Hagen (center) channels Brian Wilson's California dream on the High Llamas'