Chris Henderson

Do You Like Rock Music? charts the latest step in the evolution that took British Sea Power from its post-punk-flavored debut, The Decline of British Sea Power, to its slicker sophomore disc, Open Season. For record No. 3, BSP enlisted three producers, including former Arcade Fire drummer Howard Bilerman—notable because...

Destroyer frontman Dan Bejar decided that the lineup that recorded his band's 2006 album Destroyer's Rubies should remain intact indefinitely, so the follow-up to that record, Trouble in Dreams, now finds the Vancouver indie-pop band testing its own limits. "Blue Flower/Blue Flame" trumps Ladybug Transistor at its own game and...

The vast reserves of hate music critics reserve for Blue October can, in all likelihood, be traced back to their adolescence. Nothing angered these smart, socially awkward folks more than being at a high school or even a junior high party, watching as some hapless wanker playing mediocre guitar in...