Available Today: July 15, 2008
Get our take on new albums from the Hold Steady, Jay Reatard, Wire, and more out today.
By Spin Staff 07.15.08 11:36 AM
Here's a rundown of what's available online and in record stores this week. Click each album title to read Spin's review:
The Hold Steady, Stay Positive: Brooklyn’s hyper mini-Bosses get a bit too comfy.
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Wire
Post-punk icons present their 11th album -- as relevant and esoteric as the first -- in 31 years.
By CHELSEA SIME 07.11.08 9:03 AM
What? Rock critics and musicians alike -- Michael Stipe, Robert Smith, and Robert Pollard just to name a few -- have heralded Wire as founding fathers of the U.K. post-punk scene in the late '70s, having shaped a new and influential form of atmospheric art-house music.


