Next Week in Music | Sept. 13-19 • The Long List: 400+ Releases On...
How many music critics does it take to screw in a light bulb? Twenty — one to hold the bulb, one to turn the ladder and 18 on the...
Fiona Apple, July Talk, Josie Cotton & More Top Today’s Album Announcements
As the concert industry continues its slow but inevitable transformation into one vast livestreamed coffeehouse, recording artists are quickly (and just as inevitably) being divided into two distinct camps:...
Indie Roundup | Eight New Cuts You Need to Hear
Rodney Crowell gets in the holiday spirit, Tiny Ruins walk it off, Matthew E. White sees no future, Daniel Romano folks it up and more in today's roundup. Let's...
Next Week in Music | Nov. 20-26 • On TV
The good news: The National and Wu-Tang Clan will grace the airwaves with their presence next week. The bad news: It's a pretty slow one aside from that —...
The Hold Steady Just Released Two More Live Albums
THE EDITED PRESS RELEASE: “There’s a lot of people who put in immeasurable effort behind the scenes to make the gears of The Hold Steady machine run well. If...
Next Week in Music | March 15-21 • The Long List: 360+ Releases On...
This week's albums, EPs, singles, reissues, anthologies, compilations, box sets, live recordings and vinyl releases are brought to you by the words Dead, Time, Forever, Cloud, Midnight, Fire and...
Indie Roundup | Ten Tremendous Tracks to Try Today
Dead Can Dance get mythical, Cellar Darling hold a wake, Accept take a break, Burning Witches cry, Opeth see ghosts, Fast Romantics head south and much more in today's...
Next Week in Music | Oct. 7-13 • On TV
It's not every week you see Liz Phair on the tube. Especially not on Saturday morning. But the provocative indie-rock goddess will be on CBS This Morning next week,...
Hogtown Allstars Are Ready To Go Hog Wild
A new band of multi-award-winning not-so-new blues players are set to make their musical mark: The Hogtown Allstars will release their debut album Hog Wild on May 6.
Featuring eight...
Next Week in Music | Oct. 23-29 • New Books
It doesn't get any bigger than this, people. There are more than two-dozen new titles hitting the racks next week, including memoirs by / bios of Thurston Moore, Britney...
Next Week in Music | May 16-22 • New Books
Haggard and the Heads. The Stones and Strangers. RZA and reggae. The Beatles and Bob. Elvis and Edinburgh. Joan and Jesus. Along with a slew of scholarly tomes about...
Sonic Reducers | Rick Rolls To A Billion Views
Today in Meaningless Milestones: Rick Astley’s Never Gonna Give You Up just notched its billionth view on YouTube.
Personally, I'd call that definitive proof that a billion people can definitely...
Next Week in Music | Aug. 14-20 • The Long List: 310+ Releases On...
Today in rock ’n’ roll firsts: Jefferson Airplane played their first gig at The Matrix in San Francisco in 1965; Fleetwood Mac made their live debut at the National...
Next Week in Music | February 27 – March 5 • On TV
The National pay a visit to Jimmy Fallon, Big Thief drop in on Stephen Colbert, Niall Horan spends some time with Seth Meyers, and Nashville is well represented by...
Next Week in Music | April 11-17 • New Books
“No Elvis, Beatles or The Rolling Stones,” The Clash vowed back in 1977 (the song and the year). Toss in Bob Dylan, David Bowie and a few more usual...
