North Mississippi Allstars Lead Today’s Pack of Upcoming Albums
Another day, another couple of dozen album-release announcements. For me, the best of today's bunch is the news that North Mississippi Allstars will drop their umpteenth album Up &...
Back Stories | My Album Reviews From June 25, 1999
Two decades ago, new albums from Cibo Matto, Luscious Jackson and others were spinning away in my portable CD player. Here’s what I had to say about them back...
Brittany Howard’s Jaime Tops This Morning’s New-Release Onslaught
It's another one of those days when the new-album announcements are coming out of the woodwork like distant relatives showing up at a new lottery winner's long-weekend pool party....
Next Week in Music | June 24-30 • 150 New Releases Headed Your Way
There are more than 150 albums, EPs and singles being released next week. Mark your calendars and pre-order your favourites — but don’t blame me if things change at...
Next Week in Music | June 24-30 • New Books
Looking for a good book about music to read over the summer? Here are the new titles due this week:
Can't Give It Away on Seventh Avenue: The Rolling Stones...
Next Week in Music | June 24-30 • Music on TV
I know you like to watch. So here's a list of the musicians who will be singing for their supper next week on the boob tube. Of course, everything...
Georgia Anne Muldrow | Vweto II
WHO IS SHE? The artistically restless, constantly experimenting vocalist, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, producer and label owner from Los Angeles.
WHAT IS THIS? Her 18th solo album, which follows in the footsteps...
Chuck Mead | Close to Home
WHO IS HE? The Kansas singer-songwriter and former frontman of Nashville hillbilly rascals BR549 — who has since branched out into theatre and TV (as musical director of the...
Titus Andronicus | An Obelisk
WHO ARE THEY? The long-serving, artistically ambitious and criminally overlooked New Jersey indie-punk band that fittingly shares a name with the doomed protagonist of a bloody Shakespearean tragedy.
WHAT IS...
Cassius | Dreems
WHO ARE THEY? The 30-year-old French EDM and synth-pop duo of Boom Bass and Philippe Zdar — the latter of whom reportedly fell to his death from a 19-storey...
Buddy & Julie Miller | Breakdown On 20th Ave. South
WHO ARE THEY? The husband-and-wife band of veteran Americana singer-songwriters who don't record together nearly often enough — almost exclusively due to MVP Buddy's neverending production and sideman chores...
The Black Keys | ‘Let’s Rock’
WHO ARE THEY? Singer-guitarist Dan Auerbach and drummer Patrick Carney, two childhood pals from Akron who started a scrappy garage-blues duo that gradually smoothed out their rough edges with...
Black Midi | Schlagenheim
WHO ARE THEY? Four math-rock rule-breakers, noisy non-conformists and exciting experimenters from London who are this week's biggest, buzziest British band — and one of the few acts that...
Drivin N Cryin | Live the Love Beautiful
WHO ARE THEY? The hard-hitting, shape-shifting southern alt-rock vets fronted by singer-guitarist Kevn Kinney.
WHAT IS THIS? The 34-year-old band's breathtakingly powerful and devastatingly thought-provoking ninth studio album — which...
Mark Ronson | Late Night Feelings
WHO IS HE? The stepson of Foreigner guitarist Mick Jones, the youngest intern in the history of Rolling Stone Magazine, and — more to the point — the Midas-touched...
