In 1995, Spoon were often dubbed “the next Pixies.” The tag never quite fit, but the two did share a love for writing glorious pop songs and then shrouding them with walls of noise and mystery. Over ...

In more traditional and sentimental hands the titleTransferencecould be some sort of snooty way for a musician to reference a busted love and a new love. With Spoon, transference is more an operating ...

Whenever Rocks Off thinks about Spoon – which, over the past decade, has been quite a bit – the one word that always comes to mind is “punctuation.” No other band we can think of consistently crafts ...

Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Perfectionism and rock‘n’roll don’t tend to go hand in hand. For a style that relies on impromptu ...

Spoon, the Austin, Texas quartet, has just released its seventh album, called Transference. An indie band on a small record label, Spoon has gained widespread familiarity by having its songs played on ...

Like all of Spoon’s past albums, “Transference” breaks from previous efforts toward a new direction. The direction is a collage of the song structures of “Gimmie Fiction,” the instrumentation from “Ga ...

Spoon “Transference” Merge Ever since 2001’s “Girls Can Tell,” the Austin, Texas, foursome Spoon has been making the most of a minimalist approach to spiky, Brit-punk-influenced rock ’n’ roll.

Enough with the deconstruction already. It has served Spoon tremendously well for 16 years and seven albums now, this urge to strip their sharp, brash, stylishly grouchy mod-rock down to its rawest, ...

Today’s installment of my personal 2010 “Best Of” non-local music series features Spoon, a band that I doubt regular readers — both of them — will be surprised to find planted firmly among my garden ...

Spoon's winning streak just keeps going. After releasing four consistently exceptional albums in The Aughts - "Girls Can Tell," "Kill the Moonlight," "Gimme Fiction" and the mainstream breakthrough ...

More than most bands shuffling around the indie circuit, Austin’s erstwhile Spoon (frontman Britt Daniel now resides in Portland) usually understands the value of tension and space. On their latest ...