Nicholas L. Hall

Buffalo's Cute Is What We Aim For is likely the perfect 21st-century pop band. Almost purpose-built for short-attention-span marketing campaigns, CIWWAF focuses so heavily on pop sheen, hooks and scenester touchstones that it's often difficult to figure out just what the sum of the parts is. But, for a generation...

Better to burn out or fade away? The current musical tendency to fetishize the past, creating new markets through nostalgia, has come up with a new answer to this timeless rock and roll question: reissue. For the second year in a row, David Byrne has chosen this route, and the...