While it’s easy to get caught up in debates about aesthetic purity when it comes to punk music, it’s important to remember that, in the Continue Reading
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The 100 Best Albums of the 2000s: 40-21
40. Bright Eyes – I’m Wide Awake, It’s Morning [Saddle Creek] Released in 2005 alongside the stylistically opposed Digital Ash in a Digital Urn, I’m Wide Awake, Continue Reading
When Sunday Comes: Gospel Music in the Soul and Hip-Hop Eras (excerpt)
Excerpted from When Sunday Comes: Gospel Music in the Soul and Hip-Hop Eras by Claudrena N. Harold (footnotes omitted). Copyright 2020 by the Board of Continue Reading
Old School Politicking Gets Powerful Punk Backing on Dead End America's 'Crush the Machine'
A standard-issue modern music gripe, subject of a ton of clickbait articles, is, “why are there no protest songs anymore?” The answers vary, but the Continue Reading
Adulkt Life Feature Huggy Bear Vocalist on 'Book of Curses'
Adulkt Life are a new punk band helmed by music veterans. Vocalist Chris Rowley fulfilled that same role in the early 1990s riot grrl act Continue Reading
Elliott Skinner Shares Debut Single “Be Honest & Video
Elliott Skinner, formerly of vocal trio Thirdstory who has worked with Chance the Rapper, Jon Batiste and others, is set to embark on a solo Continue Reading
The 100 Best Albums of the 2000s: 60-41
60. Ryan Adams – Heartbreaker [Bloodshot] The dawn of the 21st century found Ryan Adams venturing into venues armed with little more than an acoustic guitar, a Continue Reading
The Mountain Goats Find New Sonic Inspiration on 'Getting Into Knives'
John Darnielle is a man of many interests. As the creative force behind indie mainstay the Mountain Goats, Darnielle has used his music to explore Continue Reading
ABBA's 'Super Trouper' at 40
Just what was the secret sauce that made the string of ABBA albums, from Arrival (1976) through to The Visitors (1981), so uniquely satisfying? Even Continue Reading
'Long Hot Summers' Is a Lavish, Long-Overdue Boxed Set from the Style Council
In 1982, Paul Weller committed what many fans considered an unforgivable sin. The Jam, the influential mod pop-punk trio he’d led as singer, guitarist, and Continue Reading
Ane Brun's 'After the Great Storm' Features Some of Her Best Songs
Seventeen years have passed since Ane Brun delivered her critically acclaimed debut album Spending Time with Morgan. On her latest outing, After the Great Storm, Continue Reading
Black Diamond Queens: African American Women and Rock and Roll (excerpt)
Excerpt of Chapter Five from Black Diamond Queens: African American Women and Rock and Roll by Maureen Mahon reprinted with permission by Duke University Press Continue Reading
Jefferson Starship Soar Again with 'Mother of the Sun'
This year has been a dark time for rock ‘n’ roll, with the coronavirus pandemic sidelining the live music industry. But rock music has long Continue Reading
Johnny Nash Refused to Remember His Place
Of all the versions of “I Can See Clearly Now” that have been circulating since Johnny Nash died on 6 October, my favorite is the Continue Reading
Horrors in the Closet: Horrifying Heteronormative Scapegoating
Our previous installment of Dread Reckoning, “Horrors in the Closet: A Closet Full of Monsters” describes how, within the context of horror culture, the construction Continue Reading
Is Carl Neville's 'Eminent Domain' Worth the Effort?
“The baby, assailed by eyes, ears, nose, skin, and entrails at once, feels it all as one great blooming, buzzing confusion.” —William James, The Principles Continue Reading
Is Carl Neville's 'Eminent Domain' Worth the Effort?
“The baby, assailed by eyes, ears, nose, skin, and entrails at once, feels it all as one great blooming, buzzing confusion.” —William James, The Principles Continue Reading
In the Tempest's Eye: An Interview with Surfer Blood
“All the pressure you never applied / Can’t be asleep at the wheel / But something had already died / And something had lost its Continue Reading
The 100 Best Albums of the 2000s: 80-61
80. Drive-By Truckers – Decoration Day [New West] Decoration Day came on the heels of 2001’s Southern Rock Opera, a loose concept album about growing up in Continue Reading
Matthew Murphy's Post-Wombats Project Sounds a Lot Like the Wombats (And It's a Good Thing)
“I think self-depreciation is important in music; there is such an art to saying something really serious in a humorous way. I think Jarvis Cocker Continue Reading