All posts from 2 July 2007

Seattle trio The Cave Singers release their debut “Invitation Songs” on September 25 on Matador.
Indie rockers Spokane are set to release their first album since 2003’s “Measurement.” The new disc “Little Hours” is out August 7th on Jagjaguwar, and includes the excellent, moody track “Thankless Marriage.”

Thankless Marriage (mp3)
Full release calendar
The Cave Singers (MySpace)
Spokane (MySpace)

Tags: cave singers, spokane

A couple additional reviews for the new Justice album have come in. While Pop Matters loved the record (”A techno revolution is at hand, with Justice and Simian Mobile Disco triumphantly leading the way.”), Urb magazine was more critical.
Justice, † (Pop Matters)
Justice, † (Urb)
REVIEW ROUNDUP: Justice, †

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We hope this isn’t the start of a new trend: the half-year-end top ten list. Cokemachineglow has posted their top 31 albums of the first half of 2007 (ok, so that’s not technically a “top ten”). If we were making a list, it would definitely include LCD Soundsystem, Menomena and Blonde Redhead, but that’s just […]

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Click on any of the links below for a full listing of dates and venues.
Akron/Family will be touring this fall in support of their September release “Love Is Simple.” The will be hitting the eastern half of the U.S. (Detroit to New York) September 6th through the 30th, and then head out west beginning October […]

Tags: akron family, ben kweller, benni hemm hemm, feist, hard-fi, stranglers, tim fite

Indie folk rockers Akron/Family return September 11th with “Love Is Simple,” produced by Andrew Weiss.
Guitarist Steve Earle releases “Washington Square Serenade” on September 25th. Produced by the Dust Brothers’ John King, the dozen-song disc includes his take on the theme song for HBO’s “The Wire,” “Way Down In The Hole” (penned by Tom Waits). […]

Tags: akron family, allison moorer, paul weller, pj harvey, steve earle

In a bit of big-sounding non-news, The Wall Street Journal is reporting that Universal Music Group may notify Apple Inc. that it will not be renewing a long-term contract to sell Universal’s recordings through Apple’s iTunes Music Store. Universal would not remove its catalog from iTunes at this time, but would continue to partner with […]

Tags: itunes, universal

July 2007 marks the birth of Criticulture.com, a new website updated frequently throughout the day with the latest music news, augmented by roundups of album reviews, and the web’s best album release calendar. Although we are starting by covering only music, there are plans to expand into other forms of entertainment as well by the […]

Tags: criticulture, launch

Although it doesn’t come out for another week in the U.S. (July 10th, to be exact), the album † [Cross] by DaftPunkian French electronica duo Justice represents our very first album review roundup (a page dedicated to the album which collects reviews from dozens of professional critics in the US, UK and Canada and summarizes […]

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