Rewinding August | The Best Blues & Roots
From country and blues legends to gospel kings, it was another strong month for roots music. Here are the top releases in alphabetical order — just click on the...
Rewinding August | The Best Loudness
How do they do it? Volume, baby. Here are the loudest metal, punk and rawk offerings of the month, listed in alphabetical order. Just click on the cover picture...
Rewinding August | The Best Rap, Soul & Funk
Sure, you want the funk. You need the funk. You gotta have the funk. But some rap, R&B and soul never hurt either. Here are August's finest, freakiest and...
Next Week in Music | Sept. 2-8 • The Short List: Six Releases To...
Of the 175 new albums, EPs and singles dropping in the next week, I'm interested in hearing at least 40 or so. But since that's way too many to...
Next Week in Music | Sept. 2-8 • The Long List: 175 New Releases...
And so it begins: The 2019 fall music season officially kicks off this week, with about 175 new albums, reissues, EPs and singles arriving on the scene. Here's all...
Next Week in Music | Sept. 2-8 • New Books
Hope you've got plenty of reading time factored into your schedule this month: There will be no shortage of music-related books to fill it. Here are this week's big...
Next Week in Music | Sept. 2-8 • Music On TV & At The...
Put down that book and switch off Netflix: The late-night talk shows are back in business. And naturally, musicians and bands are right back with them. Here are the...
Waax | Big Grief
WHO ARE THEY? A powerhouse band of Australian indie-rockers whose sound splits the diff between grunge, post-punk and alt-rock — but whose not-so-secret weapon is fearsome force-of-nature frontwoman Marie...
Surfer Blood | Covers
WHO ARE THEY? A suitably surfy indie-rock outfit from Florida whose founding members originally christened their band Jabroni Sandwich — so really, Surfer Blood is a step in the...
Seth James | Good Life
WHO IS HE? A Texas blues singer-guitarist who should be better known than he is — and might be if he hadn't put his solo career on hold to...
Ezra Furman | Twelve Nudes
WHO IS HE? The androgynous indie-rock provocateur and cult hero from Chicago whose widespread critical acclaim has not yet generated the commercial success he so richly deserves.
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Olivia Jean | Night Owl
WHO IS SHE? The Detroit-born, Nashville-based singer-guitarist who has been part of Jack White’s Third Man Records label stable for nearly a decade — both fronting the all-female "garage-goth"...
Frank Zappa | Orchestral Favorites 40th Anniversary
WHO IS HE? The late, great musical icon and iconoclast. The father of the Mothers of Invention. The childhood pal of Captain Beefheart. The owner-operator of the most recognizable...
Jesse Malin | Sunset Kids
WHO IS HE? The former frontman of absurdly underappreciated New York glam-punks D Generation — who has gone on to become an absurdly underappreciated roots-punk singer-songwriter since going solo...
Lana Del Rey | Norman Fucking Rockwell!
WHO IS SHE? Good question: Although she's been a major-label pop star and celebrity for nearly a decade, dark-hearted balladeer Lana Del Rey remains something of a cipher —...
