Old 97’s | Love the Holidays & Rhett Miller | The Messenger
Home-made gifts are always more special. And more memorable. So The Old 97's definitely earn some brownie points for writing the bulk of the songs on their Christmas album...
Laura Jane Grace & The Devouring Mothers | Bought to Rot
You know what they say: Wherever you go, there you are. But if you're Laura Jane Grace, you're not there alone. Quite the opposite, in fact: You're constantly hounded...
The Good, The Bad & The Queen | Merrie Land
It's not my country. It's not my fight. It's not my business. And even if it were, I'm not even going to pretend that I know enough about the...
Anderson .Paak | Oxnard
You know the old saying: You can't go home again. That's totally wrong, of course; people do it all the time. The trick is to go back in triumph,...
Jimi Hendrix Experience | Electric Ladyland Deluxe Edition 50th Anniversary Box Set
Another week, another legendary album celebrating its 50th anniversary. Hot on the heels of The Beatles' White Album, The Kinks' Village Green Preservation Society, The Band's Music From Big...
Mark Knopfler | Down The Road Wherever
Life in the fast lane it is not. Dire Straits singer-guitarist Mark Knopfler is clearly in no hurry to get where he's going on his ninth solo album Down...
Mumford & Sons | Delta
If the third time is the charm, what is the fourth time? Well, in the case of Mumford & Sons, it's the time when you try to reconnect with...
Smashing Pumpkins | Shiny and Oh So Bright, Vol. 1 / LP: No Past....
You almost have to feel sorry for Smashing Pumpkins. If only because they're in a no-win situation. For those who haven't been paying attention, three-quarters of the band's original...
J Mascis | Elastic Days
J Mascis has obviously dished up plenty of lead guitar heroism in his longtime day job with veteran indie-rock power trio Dinosaur Jr. And on some of his previous...
Jon Spencer | Spencer Sings the Hits
Hits? Jon Spencer ain't got no hits! Jon Spencer don't need no hits! Jon Spencer don't need to sing you any stinkin' hits! That's because Jon Spencer has something...
Larkin Poe | Venom & Faith
Buddy Guy sounded a little worried when I spoke to him a few years ago. What had him concerned? Nothing less than the future of the blues: The veteran...
Charles Bradley | Black Velvet
"The world I live in, it’s painful. It hurts. In a word: It’s bittersweet." Charles Bradley admitted that to me about 15 months before he died of cancer in...
Swizz Beatz | Poison
When you only make one album every decade, you have plenty of time to make it great. So you'd better. And to his credit, Swizz Beatz certainly does on...
Imagine Dragons | Origins
Evolution isn't necessarily everything it's cracked up to be. Case in point: Origins, the Charles Darwin-titled fourth studio release from Las Vegas pop-rockers Imagine Dragons and (fittingly enough) the...
Rodney Crowell | Christmas Everywhere
"Christmas, Christmas, Christmas, Christmas, Christmas out the waz. Christmas, Christmas, Christmas, Christmas, Christmas up the shnoz." If that line from the title track to Rodney Crowell’s first holiday album...
