In the midst of a global pandemic, 22-year-old singer-songwriter Rosie Darling seems to be faring just fine as she sets the stage for the next Continue Reading
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Yann Brassard Released An Extra Groovy Single Without Any Instrumentals But His Mouth – “Overnight”
Following his previous pop releases – two French tracks, “Mission Commando” and “Dangereuse”, Yann Brassard is now back with a brand new release in English, Continue Reading
Jim White Invites Us to a 'Misfit's Jubilee'
The weird and wonderful Jim White is as much a performance artist as he is a musician. He deftly combines different pop styles in juxtaposition Continue Reading
LÉON's 'Apart' Is Her Most Directly Personal Work
“I know I’m better off solo / Shouldn’t have to be this hard,” sings LÉON on her second album Apart, the follow-up to her 2019 Continue Reading
Postcolonial Re-imaginings in Mambèty's 'Touki Bouki'
The French New Wave finally made its way to Africa in the late 1960s, thanks in part to the French postcolonial presence on the African Continue Reading
The 100 Best Albums of the 2000s: 20-1
20. Broken Social Scene – You Forgot It in People [Arts & Crafts/Paper Bag] The diffidently-sung “Anthem for a Seventeen Year-Old Girl” will reach you, even if Continue Reading
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
'The Great Dismal' Is Nothing's Sharpest and Most Consistent album
That Nothing’s new album would be called The Great Dismal is probably the least surprising thing that has happened all year. The title seems almost Continue Reading
Moira Smiley and VOCO's "The Call" Says Stay Strong in Shared Humanity (premiere)
Solemnity rings through the breathtakingly wordless introduction to “The Call”, the new a cappella single taken from Moira Smiley and VOCO’s upcoming album In Our Continue Reading
Iller Instinct: An Interview with Hip-Hop Artists Ill Scholars
The two first met at a Roots show and in no time did they begin exchanging beats and rhymes. MC Mattic and producer Johnny Madwreck Continue Reading
When Punk Took on the National Front It Screamed, 'White Riot'!
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
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 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