A few songs into the Nine Inch Nails’ set at the John Paul Jones Arena last Wednesday, I found myself utterly unable to summon any authentic anger to match the brutality that frontman Trent Reznor and company dished out. C’mon, Trent: Obama just won the presidency, putting an eight-year nightmare to rest and making history […]

Enlisting DJ Danger Mouse—one half of the psychedelic soul group Gnarls Barkley—Beck seemed poised for a return to the madcap sound collages of his landmark albums, Odelay and Mellow Gold. But on Modern Guilt, Beck’s 10th album, Danger Mouse streamlines the meditations on personal stasis and existential dread that have been the core of Beck’s […]