Next Week in Music | July 20-26 • On TV
Three is usually the magic number. But this week, there are two televised musical performances — no more and no less — on the talk-show circuit most nights. I...
The Allergies | Say the Word
Nobody seems to love old-school soul, funk and R&B quite as much as the Brits. And nobody puts it all together — along with dashes of disco, rap, hip-hop,...
Silverbacks | Fad
Fads come and go. But creativity and craftsmanship never get old. You'll find plenty of both in the debut full-length from Dublin quintet Silverbacks. Despite its 900-pound gorilla of...
Sly & The Family Drone | Walk It Dry
Subtlety is for saps. Rehearsals are restrictive. Volume is an instrument. Chaos is the ultimate plan. And more is always better. U.K. extremists Sly & The Family Drone put...
The Ridiculous Trio | The Ridiculous Trio Plays The Stooges
Hands up, everybody who wants to listen to a tuba player, a slide-trombone virtuoso and a drummer unspool lumpy, lurching crash ’n’ bash instrumental covers of Iggy and The...
Illuminati Hotties | FREE I.H This Is Not the One You’ve Been Waiting...
"I’m always letting everyone down," claims studio rat singer-guitarist Sarah Tudzin midway through the latest release from her band Illuminati Hotties. I beg to differ. And I predict the...
S.G. Goodman | Old Time Feeling
Stunning. Soulful. Spellbinding. They're the words that spring to mind when you hear S.G. Goodman. Mostly that's due to the southern singer-songwriter's fantastic voice, which somehow manages to to...
The Lawrence Arms | Skeleton Coast
Yacht rock it ain't. But Skeleton Coast, the seventh studio set from Chicago's Lawrence Arms, is something equally disturbing: A pop-punk album with an aquatic theme. I am not...
The Texas Gentlemen | Floor It!!!
The Texas Gentlemen are one of those bands that you've undoubtedly heard — even if you've never heard of them.
Over the years, the long-serving Lone Star journeymen have backed...
Bush | The Kingdom
Give Gavin Rossdale credit; he's persistent. Nearly three decades since forming Bush — and a decade into the erstwhile post-grunge outfit's second-act rebirth as a modern-rock outfit — he's...
Jeff, Spencer & Sammy Tweedy | Showbiz Kids Soundtrack
A new Jeff Tweedy solo album? Well, kinda. While the Wilco singer-guitarist and songwriter did pen and play a whole ton of new music for filmmaker Alex Winter’s revealing...
Bobby Lees | Skin Suit
A great band needs a great origin story. And The Bobby Lees (no relation to the underground comedian) have surely got one: Singer-guitarist and actress Sam Quartin formed the...
Protomartyr | Ultimate Success Today
Desperate times call for desperate music. And albums don't come much grimmer — not to mention starker, darker or relentlessly intense — than Protomartyr’s Ultimate Success Today. The incredible...
Gang of Four | Anti Hero
Andy Gill is gone but Gang of Four lives on. At least on this four-track EP. The followup to this spring's This Heaven Gives Me Migraine EP features another...
Ellie Goulding | Brightest Blue
Emphasis on Blue. English synth-pop darling Ellie Goulding’s fourth album (and first release in five years) starts off as an emotionally, musically and rhythmically downbeat affair, thanks to a...
