Next Week in Music | May 11-17 • The Long List: 250 Releases On...
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Next Week in Music | May 11-17 • New Books
Still looking for that last-minute gift for Mom? You've got some great options here — assuming your mom digs early Rush, owns the Hawkwind catalogue, wants to dress like...
Next Week in Music | May 11-17 • On TV
Another week, another set list of televised quarantunes — including a handful of bands among the usual roster of solo singer-songwriters. If this week is anything like the last...
Los Mundos | No Hay Quien Se Salve
Worlds are colliding. Again. This fearsome Mexican duo of holy terrors first unleashed the noisy psychedelic mayhem of their sophomore album No Hay Quien Se Salve (There is No...
Liar, Flower | Geiger Counter
Back in the ’90s, aggressively iconoclastic sundress-sporting frontwoman KatieJane Garside prefigured the Riot Grrrl movement with the chaotic British noise-rock outfit Daisy Chainsaw. A generation later, she's still making...
Deau Eyes | Let It Leave
With a handle like Deau Eyes, you might expect singer-songwriter Ali Thibodeau to be all soft and gentle and pastoral. You'd be wrong. The Virginia-born indie-rocker packs a solidly...
Daxx & Roxane | Daxx & Roxane
Their name sounds like a bad lounge duo. Or maybe an old Hollywood dance team. But Daxx & Roxane are actually a hard-hitting Swiss rock brigade that worship at...
Brian Wright & The SneakUps | Lapse of Luxury
We all have jobs to do. Bills to pay. Mouths to feed. But every working man needs to do a little something just for himself every now and then....
Beauty Pill | Please Advise
Is it art-rock? Avant-garde jazz? Indie-rock? Prog? Electronica? Post-rock? Experimental hip-hop? Sonic collage? When it comes to Please Advise, the latest EP from one-of-a-kind D.C. outfit Beauty Pill, the...
Andrew Hibbard | Andrew Hibbard
Let's just get it out in the open and of the way right off the bat: Andrew Hibbard sounds like Bob Dylan. A whole lot like Bob Dylan. Especially...
Amanda St. John | Muscle Shoals Sessions
It seems like you'd have to do something very wrong to make a bad album at the venerable Alabama soul shack of FAME Studios — especially when you're recording...
Adeline Hotel | Solid Love
You know what they say about first impressions. And when you push play to kick off the opening number of Adeline Hotel’s Solid Love, you might think you're in...
1000mods | Youth of Dissent
Again with the Greeks? What the hell is up with that? Could it be the Ouzo. The yogurt? The freaking spanikopita? Honestly, I have no damn idea. All I...
Fake Names | Fake Names
All supergroups are not created equal. Take Fake Names, the new punk outfit featuring an all-star lineup of current and/or former members of Minor Threat, Bad Religion, Refused, Girls...
The Sinclairs | Sparkle
Can you have a supergroup of two? Well, when one of them is original Damned drummer Rat Scabies, why the hell not? The OG punk percussionist teams up with...