A strange thing happened right after I put the xx’s new album, “Coexist,” on my iPod. My headphones broke in such a way that, unless you tamper with the cord every couple of minutes, you can’t hear any vocals. Luckily for me, “Coexist” is an album that rides heavily on its stellar production, courtesy of […]

One of the things I would be most terrified of, if I were to ever start a band, would be running out of ideas. Way too many great bands have done this. I was almost convinced that Bloc Party would become just another casualty of that same early hype, but with their fourth album (admittedly […]