Various Artists | Echo in the Canyon Soundtrack
WHO ARE THEY? A who's who of iconic singers, songwriters and superstars — from Neil Young and Eric Clapton to Beck, Fiona Apple and Josh Homme — all collaborating...
Sting | My Songs
WHO IS HE? Gordon Sumner — erstwhile Police captain, wannabe musical-theatre titan, Tuscan farm owner, rumoured tantric sex god, master of the immortal lute, fountain of youth discoverer and...
Next Week in Music | May 20-26 • 110 New Releases Headed Your Way
Some weeks it's about quantity. Others, it's about quality. This time it's a bit of both. There are more than 110 albums, EPs and singles being released next week....
Next Week in Music | May 20-26, 2019 • New Books
If writing about music is like dancing about architecture, does that make reading about music like juggling about engineering? I don't know. But I do know that these biographies,...
Next Week in Music | May 20-26, 2019 • TV & Movies
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 — and the...
Dommengang | No Keys
WHO ARE THEY? A Brooklyn guitar-rock power trio whose name is Danish for Judgment Day — and who have now apparently relocated to Los Angeles.
WHAT IS THIS? Their third...
Endless Boogie | Vol. I, II
WHO ARE THEY? A no-frills Brooklyn outfit whose epic, hypnotic guitar jams handily live up to their name (which they borrowed from a John Lee Hooker album).
WHAT IS THIS?...
Jimmie Vaughan | Baby, Please Come Home
WHO IS HE? The veteran Texas bluesman was a founding member of the long-running Fabulous Thunderbirds — and the older brother of the late, great Stevie Ray Vaughan, of...
Lewis Capaldi | Divinely Uninspired to a Hellish Extent
WHO IS HE? A young Scottish singer-songwriter who just happens to be a distant cousin of former Dr. Who star and onetime punk rocker Peter Capaldi.
WHAT IS THIS? His...
Institute | Readjusting the Locks
WHO ARE THEY? A Texas punk quartet that recently pulled up stakes and relocated from Austin to the Big Apple — all the better to feel downtrodden, one assumes.
WHAT...
Imperial Wax | Gastwerk Saboteurs
WHO ARE THEY? The three surviving members of The Fall, picking up where they left off after the 2018 death of misanthropic frontman Mark E. Smith — and picking...
Room 37: The Mysterious Death of Johnny Thunders Soundtrack | Various Artists
WHO IS HE? New York Dolls guitarist Johnny Thunders went from glam-rock hero to a first-wave punk icon — but ultimately became a tragic figure and rock casualty, thanks...
Biffy Clyro | Balance, Not Symmetry: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
WHO ARE THEY? You know; those U.K. rockers. The ones who aren't Muse or The 1975 or Bloc Party. The other guys. The ones who sang that song. You...
Slowthai | Nothing Great About Britain
WHO IS HE? Ascendant British rapper Tyron Frampton, whose stage name supposedly comes from a childhood speech impediment that he certainly seems to have outgrown.
WHAT IS THIS? His dark,...
The Heavy | Sons
WHO ARE THEY? You remember that band that was on Letterman that time? They did that song called How You Like Me Now? And Dave loved it so much...
