Spoon, Transference, Spin
If Spoon had been meant to ride a comet out of the collegiate airwaves into modern-rock radio ubiquity, they’d be kickin’ it with Jack White by now. True, the Austin, Texas band has already reached some checkpoints along that arc: getting signed to (and dropped from) a major label, scoring their first Billboard Top 10 debut with 2007′s Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga, watching frontman Britt Daniel defect to Portland, Oregon, where Modest Mouse and Death Cab for Cutie are living out their second acts. Read full review















