We tend to think of beauty and harshness, sensitivity and anger as opposites. While it’s understandable that language hews towards a dichotomous model for sorting Continue Reading
60. Thin Lear – Wooden Cave [EggHunt Records] Queens-based singer-songwriter Matt Longo, who records under the moniker Thin Lear, may only be in his mid-30s, Continue Reading
25. Frank Jacket – You Say Adios (Mula) Chilean artist Frank Jacket is a living testament to the far-reaching quality of honest-to-goodness classic country movement. Inspired by Continue Reading
In the 1960s, there was a band that changed the way popular music was made forever. They challenged conventional ideas regarding harmony, form, and instrumentation Continue Reading
Excerpted from The Smithsonian American Art Museum exhibition catalog, ¡Printing the Revolution!: The Rise and Impact of Chicano Graphics, 1965 to Now, courtesy of The Continue Reading
Very little is known about SAULT. The group may be a trio, and they are much more about “show” than “tell”. The band revealed the Continue Reading
The Clash – “This Is Radio Clash” (1981, Columbia) The Clash released one of the most iconic videos of its time, the straight-ahead performance clip for Continue Reading
Then and now, the mighty Led Zeppelin towers imposingly as one of rock’s elite groups. The source of at minimum four must-own LPs, dozens of Continue Reading
From as early as his teenage years, it was plain that Warren Zevon was never going to be an ordinary person, or at the very Continue Reading
The 2021 Super Bowl halftime show performer has been announced! Pepsi, the NFL and Roc Nation revealed on Thursday (November 12) that The Weeknd will Continue Reading
10. The Jesus and Mary Chain – Psychocandy [Blanco y Negro, 1985] Whilst not a “shoegaze” record by any strict definition of the term, Psychocandy is Continue Reading
In 1977, Randy Newman had the biggest hit song of his career, “Short People”, which somewhat incredibly made it to number two on the Billboard Continue Reading
On the 28 March 1977, while This Heat were recording their first radio session with producer Tony Wilson and engineer Dave Dade, the Sex Pistols Continue Reading
I can’t help but marvel that one of the United States’ most prominent unofficial film ambassadors had once broken his directorial chops working for B Continue Reading
Anaal Nathrakh – Endarkenment (Metal Blade) Birmingham’s Anaal Nathrakh play an extreme take on extreme metal. Everything is pushed beyond the point of breaking in Continue Reading
Given the shadowy avant-gardism of their self-titled debut a year earlier, it may come as a bit of a surprise to find how bright This Continue Reading
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
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
The first sound you hear on Waylon Payne’s new album, Blue Eyes, The Harlot, The Queer, The Pusher & Me, is a young boy enthusiastically Continue Reading
10. Kanye West – 808s & Heartbreak (2008) We should have known better than to underestimate Kanye West. After a multi-platinum trilogy of albums, 808s & Heartbreak Continue Reading
