Email Author Annie Zaleski

2007 Stories by Annie Zaleski

• 2007 Music Year in Review

  published December 13, 2007

  The holidays are a time of family, schmaltzy Christmas commercials that somehow make you cry and, for music journalists, list-making. Lots and... More >>

• The Brit Box: UK Indie, Shoegaze and Brit-Pop Gems of the Last Millennium

  published November 29, 2007

  Fans of deafening reverb and swirling guitars rejoiced when enigmatic My Bloody Valentine frontman Kevin Shields announced two weeks ago that... More >>

• PJ Harvey, White Chalk

  published November 1, 2007

  Sometimes the simplest music is the most affecting. So it goes with PJ Harvey's new studio album White Chalk, which often feels like a... More >>

• Nine Inch Nails

  published April 19, 2007

  Leave it to Trent Reznor — one of the few musicians who probably doesn't need to hype his art by this point — to trump every other viral... More >>

• Scissor Sisters

  published March 15, 2007

  When Oliver Stumm of the New York label A Touch of Class Recordings first saw the Scissor Sisters perform in 2000, he saw something special. This... More >>

• Arcade Fire

  published March 15, 2007

  Arcade Fire's Neon Bible is a dense, academic and ultimately rewarding album fixated on questions of spirituality, religion and the concept... More >>

• Fall Out Boy

  published March 1, 2007

  Sub-par live shows, photos of bassist Pete Wentz's penis and petty Internet fights with ex-friends can't stop the pop-punk juggernaut known as... More >>

• The Earlies

  published February 1, 2007

  The fact that the Earlies made a second album is pretty remarkable; having band members scattered on both sides of the Atlantic must make... More >>