HESO Best Music of 2012

Fiona Apple - The Idler Wheel Is Wiser Than the Driver of the Screw and Whipping Cords Will Serve You More Than Ropes Will Ever Do

There are several things I love about music in 2012. Forced to listen to it for hours at a time, House has finally begun to make some kind of sense to me, though it alternatively plops its repetitive self into the absurd column just as easily. Which parallels my feelings about Jack White’s Blunderbuss. Maybe [...]

Japandroids Celebration Rock

Japandroids Celebration Rock

It is hard to imagine Brian King and David Prowse being in a room together and not sounding like ten guys with heavy equipment making a lot of noise. But making good, and occasionally great, rock noise. And being unapologetically melodic and poetic about it to boot. But they beat me to that punch: this [...]