Email Author RAYMOND CUMMINGS

2012 Stories by RAYMOND CUMMINGS

• Awolnation

  published May 9, 2012

  Awolnation singer/songwriter Aaron Bruno cobbles together modern-rock tunes that are candy pop, hard as nails, and cathedral-huge: Aggro refrains... More >>

• Bare Mutants+Outer Minds

  published April 25, 2012

  Perpetually in a state of collapsing and making up, the music of Bare Mutants (which features members of Ponys, The 1900s, and Mannequin Men) can... More >>

• Schoolboy Q

  published April 11, 2012

  Still establishing his voice three mixtapes in—is he a moralist, a hedonist, or a knowing parodist of both?—L.A. rapper Schoolboy Q is a... More >>

• White Mystery

  published April 11, 2012

  This hirsute Chicago-based sister/brother duo (Miss Alex White on guitar and Francis Scott Key White behind the drums) slings twig-studded... More >>

• Miike Snow

  published April 11, 2012

  Given the pedigree here—Miike Snow members Christian Karlsson and Pontus Winnberg moonlight as crack radio-pop unit Bloodshy &... More >>

• Suckers

  published April 11, 2012

  What’s not to like about Suckers? The Brooklyn trio fly the flag for a loose—if not always lucid—strain of comfortably weird,... More >>

• Sean Kuti & Fela's Egypt 80

  published April 4, 2012

  On one hand, Seun Kuti's gumption is admirable: It took cojones to step into his late activist father's bandleader shoes and command most of the... More >>

• Yukon Blonde

  published April 4, 2012

  Take heart, Rolling Stone readers of a certain age: Like the Sheepdogs before them, Canada's Yukon Blonde are here to save your bacon with... More >>

• Jack Beats

  published March 21, 2012

  On their lonesome, the U.K.-based DJ duo of Niall Dailly and Ben Geffin traffic in a decidedly vanilla brand of electronic pop music:... More >>

• Of Montreal

  published March 21, 2012

  There is such a thing as over-mining a psychosis, and if the Of Montreal songwriter hasn’t reached a personal limit, it’s telling that... More >>

• Throwing Up

  published March 7, 2012

  With roots in New York, New Zealand, and London, it's a relief that trio Throwing Up boast a sound worthy of its pedigree, playing... More >>

• The Lemonheads

  published March 7, 2012

  These days, "playing a beloved album live in its entirety" is the new "plowing through the hits at country fairs," and for better or worse,... More >>

• Single Red Cent

  published March 7, 2012

  What NYC's Single Red Cent bring to bear is a raucously unkempt garage punk. The mealy chicken-wire guitars, the messily dissatisfied lead vocals,... More >>

• Black Milk

  published February 22, 2012

  Black Milk the producer embraces a warm, vinyl-crackle sound that implies misalignment and chaos but locks in like Voltron when the chorus hits.... More >>

• Noveller

  published February 22, 2012

  It's worth remembering that Sarah Lipstate is an avant-garde guitarist and a filmmaker, and with each successive sonic dispatch, her sound becomes... More >>

• Dada Trash Collage

  published February 15, 2012

  Suckers for shattered, celestial wavelength slosh could do much worse than to dip a toe into Dada Trash Collage's burgeoning, flickering... More >>

• Pictureplane

  published January 25, 2012

  As Pictureplane, Minneapolis’s Travis Egedy combines slithering synth-pop, a professional DJ’s ingenuity, and an almost intangible... More >>

• Cloud Nothings

  published January 18, 2012

  On his albums as Cloud Nothings, Cleveland native Dylan Baldi catalogs his anxieties, fears, and over-amped neuroses in blood-red spray paint.... More >>

• Carlos Giffoni

  published January 18, 2012

  Carlos Giffoni’s solo career (the No Fun Fest/Productions impresario has also done time in Monotract and as part of scuzz-note supergroup... More >>

• Twig Harper

  published January 11, 2012

  Pharmaceutical trials and alternate levels of consciousness are among dovetail nicely within the context of this Baltimore-based musician’s... More >>

• Radical Dads

  published January 4, 2012

  The Radical Dads game plan is pretty simple: Guitarists Lindsay Baker and Chris Diken trade off on the microphone while kicking up... More >>