Steel Panther | Heavy Metal Rules
WHO ARE THEY? The last hair-metal hedonists still standing. The sleaziest sluts on the Sunset Strip since Mötley Crüe. And the men singlehandedly consuming 99% of the world's supply...
The New Pornographers | In The Morse Code of Brake Lights
WHO ARE THEY? The 20-year-old Vancouver indie supergroup (or collective, if you're into the whole egalitarian thing) featuring guitarist and songwriter A.C. Newman, accompanied at various points by Neko...
Tegan & Sara | Hey, I’m Just Like You
WHO ARE THEY? The Calgary-raised twin sisters who have been making personal yet polished folk and indie-pop together since high school — and who just published a memoir fittingly...
Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds | This Is The Place EP
WHO IS HE? The former Oasis singer-guitarist. Brother Liam’s lifelong nemesis and tormentor. The cantankerous crank who's currently feuding with Lewis Capaldi, Dave Grohl, and several other people we...
Sturgill Simpson | Sound & Fury
WHO IS HE? The iconoclastic American alt-country singer-songwriter who broke through to the mainstream with 2014's druggy Metamodern Sounds in Country Music, and went on win the Best Country...
The Replacements | Dead Man’s Pop
WHO ARE THEY? The mighty ’Mats. The original trouble boys. The notorious Minneapolis miscreants formed by mercurial singer-songwriter Paul Westerberg, teenage bassist (and future Gunner) Tommy Stinson, his doomed...
The Beatles | Abbey Road 50th Anniversary Deluxe Edition
"Last chance to be loud!" jokes John Lennon to his fellow Beatles on one of the Abbey Road 50th Anniversary Deluxe Edition’s bonus tracks. At the time, of course,...
Bruce, Jeff & Josh Top Today’s Album Annoucements
Good things really do come in threes — assuming you're a fan of Jeff Lynne, Bruce Springsteen or Josh Homme. All three of them announced new albums on Thursday. Springsteen's...
Back Stories | My 2009 Interview With Dolly Parton
With Ken Burns’ latest superb music documentary series Country airing this month, I figured it made sense to pull out some interviews I've done with country legends over the...
Back Stories | My Album Reviews From Sept. 24, 1999
Two decades ago, new albums from Nine Inch Nails, Sloan, Chris Cornell and others were spinning away in my portable CD player. Here’s what I had to say about...
Late-Night TV Music (Paul-Free Edition) | Sept. 23, 2019
Some things never change. Back in the ’80s when I used to videotape the late-night TV music segments on my Betamax (screw that VHS garbage!), I never knew whether...
Nick Cave’s Ghosteen Tops Today’s Album Announcements
It's always a good day when Nick Cave announces a new album. Ghosteen, the latest disc from the grim balladeer and his long-serving band of Bad Seeds, will apparently...
Back Stories | My 2012 Interview With Willie Nelson
With Ken Burns’ latest superb music documentary series Country airing this month, I figured it made sense to pull out some interviews I've done with country legends over the...
Next Week in Music | Sept. 23-29 • The Short List: Nine Releases To...
Something old, something new, plenty of Dead and Kanye too. It's another big week for music, with brand-spanking albums from New Pornographers, Sturgill Simpson, Tegan & Sara and more,...
Next Week in Music | Sept. 23-29 • The Long List: 200 New Releases...
There are more than 200 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...
