Muse | Simulation Theory
Can not having a concept be a concept? It can if you're Muse. Or at least you can pretend it is. After painstakingly crafting a trio of grandly ambitious...
The Beatles | The Beatles (White Album) 50th Anniversary Box: 27 Unreleased Gems
"It was great. It sold. It's the bloody Beatles’ White Album. Shut up!" So said Paul McCartney when someone suggested The Beatles’ self-titled magnum opus should have been a...
Angelo Badalamenti & David Lynch | Thought Gang: 10 Oddly Apt Quotes
“I have no idea where this will lead us, but I have a definite feeling it will be a place both wonderful and strange.”
Special Agent Dale Cooper was talking...
JD McPherson | Socks: A Christmas Album
Finally, an album that answers the age-old musical question: What would it sound like if NRBQ cut a Christmas LP at Sun Studios? What if they wrote an original...
Vince Staples | FM!: Nine Malign Lines
"Do you really wanna know about some gangsta shit?" Vince Staples inquires midway through his surprise release FM! It's clearly a rhetorical question. Whether you like it or not,...
Next Week in Music | Nov. 5-11
Here are the major album releases, TV appearances, anniversaries and important musical events of the next seven days. Mark your calendars and get in on some pre-order action —...
The Prodigy | No Tourists
Turn down? For what? You won't catch techno masterblasters Liam Howlett, Keith Flint and Maxim changing their pitch up on this seventh studio album. Or leaving their comfort zone....
Tenacious D | Post-Apocalypto
It's the end of the world as we know it. And Tenacious D feel fine. Too bad Jack Black and Kyle Gass also felt like putting most of their...
Pistol Annies | Interstate Gospel: The Four Commandments
Fans' prayers have finally been answered: Five years after the last Pistol Annies album, Miranda Lambert, Ashley Monroe and Angaleena Presley have finally reconvened for their third studio release....
William Shatner | Shatner Claus: Three Guests Who Lose (And Three Who Win )
It ... was ... only ... a matter! of! time! Over the past 50 years, the one and only William Shatner has ruined songs by everyone from The Beatles...
Rosanne Cash | She Remembers Everything: Seven Memorable Points
Some people make too many albums. Rosanne Cash is not one of them. So when Johnny's eldest daughter finally shows up with something new — like her 15th studio...
Bob Dylan | More Blood, More Tracks: 12 Standout Cuts
You can call him moody. You can call him restless. You can call him fickle. You can even call him wreckless. But no matter what you say, you can't...
Marianne Faithfull | Negative Capability: Six Positive Thoughts
1 | There aren't many artists who can still deliver the goods at age 71 — especially when they've been through everything Marianne Faithfull has. But even though she hasn't...
Los Straitjackets | Complete Christmas Songbook
Yes, Los Straitjackets are doing some regifting. But at least they're being up-front about it. Complete Christmas Songbook, the holiday collection from everyone's favourite wrestling-masked surf-rockers, compiles both of...
Peter Bjorn & John | Darker Days
You know things are getting rough when even Peter, Bjorn and John are bummed. After all, these Swedish indie-popsters are the guys who scored their biggest hit on these...
