Short Subjects | Three Recent EPs That Won’t Waste Your Time

There's a good reason major-label music releases taper off in the summer: Most people have better things to do than sit and listen to a jillion albums. With that...

Now Hear This: Lulu And The Broadsides | Lulu And The Broadsides

THE EDITED PRESS RELEASE: “For more than two decades, over the course of a career that took her around the world and back again, singer-songwriter Dayna Kurtz circled back...

Now Hear This: Birds Of Maya | Valdez

THE EDITED PRESS RELEASE: “A long era of dull ringing and nothing else in our ears is over. Once again, winds of warm guitar and humid thunderheads of bass...

Next Week in Music | Jan. 18-24 • The Long List: 225+ Releases On...

Another week, another whack of new music. Govern yourself accordingly:     Akbal × Kheyzine | Cour Des Grands Marc Almond | The Stars We Are Expanded Edition Alpine Decline | For The Betterment...

Now Hear This: Lothar & The Hand People | Machines: Amherst 1969

THE PRESS RELEASE: "Lothar And The Hand People emerged as one of the earliest pioneers to mix electronics into rock, incorporating theremin and synthesizers into their sonic onslaught. Led...

The Best & The Rest | This Week’s Top Indie-Pop Releases

Most major-label pop is aimed at kids. Fortunately, the indie ranks tend to aim a little higher. Here are the best offerings I came across this week, in order...

Albums Of The Week: Combustible Edison | Forbidden Isle Of Demos

THE EDITED PRESS RELEASE: “It's a sonic apéritif! Specifically, this is the apéritif that started the album that helped start the cocktail and exotica rebirth of the ’90s! It’s...

Albums Of The Week: Various Artists | Mick Fleetwood And Friends Celebrate The Music...

THE EDITED PRESS RELEASE: “Legendary drummer Mick Fleetwood enlisted an all-star cast for a one-of-a-kind concert honouring the early years of Fleetwood Mac and its founder, Peter Green which...

Classic DVD Review: Bryan Adams | Live at Slane Castle

This came out in 2001 – or at least that's when I got it. Here’s what I said about it back then (with some minor editing):   MAIN COURSE: A high-energy...

Classic Album Review: The Lowest of the Low | Nothing Short of a Bullet

This came out in 2002 – or at least that's when I got it. Here’s what I said about it back then (with some minor editing):   For the past few...

Redd Kross | Beyond the Door

WHO ARE THEY? One of indie-rock's most influential and critically beloved outfits. A group that Sonic Youth’s Thurston Moore once dubbed "the most important band in America," and others...

Albums Of The Week: Los Calvos | .​.​.​Y Que Calvos!

THE EDITED PRESS RELEASE: “If the first album from Venezuela’s Los Calvos, despite its greatness, could be considered to have a varied sound, then this second and lamentably final...

Classic Album Review: Belle & Sebastian | Sing Jonathan David

This came out in 2001 – or at least that's when I got it. Here’s what I said about it back then (with some minor editing):   It’s all too easy...

Now Hear This: Mexican Institute Of Sound | Distrito Federal

THE EDITED PRESS RELEASE: “Mexican Institute Of Sound’s latest album is a love letter to Distrito Federal, now CDMX. It features collaborations with: Dan The Automator (Gorillaz), Graham Coxon...

Next Week in Music | Nov. 15-21 • On TV

Robert Plant and Alison Krauss raise the curtain on Raise The Roof, Courtney Barnett does it in the daytime, Saweetie pours some sugar on SNL, the legendary Dion and...

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