Jory Dominguez

April 21, 2005

Garbage | Bleed Like Me | Geffen

By Jory Dominguez

Having followed Garbage since it's inception in 1993, it pains me to submit what you are about to read. Disappointingly, Bleed Like Me finds the band still heavily anesthetized from the medication of the imposed (recentl...

April 14, 2005

The Kills | No Wow | Rough Trade/RCA

By Jory Dominguez

For the Kills, executing their minimalist sonic blitz with nothing more than a guitar, a drum machine and a lyrically unflinching fuck-you resolve is all in a day's work, and however miscalculated the formula might seem,...

February 17, 2005

“Knuckle” Sandwich

By Jory Dominguez

"I was digging deep, deep, deep into my bag of songs [about love] - and I got some pretty fucked-up ones," Ani DiFranco coolly commented before swinging into an affirming rendition of "Swan Dive" at the Arlington Theatre...

February 10, 2005

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February 3, 2005

…And You Will Know Us By The Trail of Dead| Worlds Apart | Interscope

By Jory Dominguez

Of all the bands to produce a sub par, hesitant and muddled album ...And You Will Know Us By The Trail of Dead is the last one most would have expected.

January 27, 2005

Ani DiFranco | Knuckle Down | Righteous Babe Records

By Jory Dominguez

It is always striking how deftly attuned Ani DiFranco is to her own psychology, as well as her ability to write unreservedly with objective accordance and poetic simplicity.

January 6, 2005

End of the Century | Music Was Never the Same

By Jory Dominguez

"End of the Century" takes viewers back to the music scene in New York City (circa 1974) that never saw the Ramones coming, but proved to be precisely what rock enthusiasts were seeking when they debuted their sound at C...

November 4, 2004

Le Tigre | This Island | Universal Records

By Jory Dominguez

This Island deserves three awards: one for the best/weirdest song title on an album ("Nanny Nanny Boo Boo"), another for best cover of the year (The Pointer Sisters' hit "I'm So Excited") and the last for making the Casi...

October 27, 2004

Death by Sexy LIVE!!!

By Jory Dominguez

Before last Friday night Velvet Jones was a foreign place, known to me only as another typical club with a dodgy word-of-mouth reputation. Frankly, I did not believe I could be lured to its location on the lower end of S...

September 23, 2004

Bjork | Medulla | Elektra/Atlantic

By Jory Dominguez

Bjork has never shied from eccentricism or extremism in her music, and Medulla, her seventh studio album, turning on the axis of vocalization, is no exception.

May 13, 2004

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By Jory Dominguez

To appreciate ambience is to favor essence over substance, longing over fulfillment, and quintessentially, less over more. Understandably then, the music of Icelandic electro-pop experimentalist quartet M

May 6, 2004

Patti Smith | Trampin’ | Columbia

By Jory Dominguez

Poet-cum-rocker Patti Smith has produced another brilliant album. The tracks on Trampin' cohere with a finesse that comes from 30 years of creating both art and music and maintaining their points of intersection.

April 29, 2004

The Catheters | Howling… It Grows and Grows!!! | Sub Pop

By Jory Dominguez

The Catheters are an underrated, four-member Seattle, Wash., outfit currently touring in support of this, their second - and second horribly titled - album to be released on Sub Pop Records.