[rating=8.00] What’s your favorite debut album by an artist, ever? How about a sophomore album? Well, Robert Pollard has released one hundred albums, culminating in August by Cake (2017). Yet,
[rating=9.00] There’s no shortage of troubled troubadours documenting the legacy of America’s rural environs and the places where dreams and desire are frequently spawned. For his part, Will Hoge recognizes
In the newest installment of Wannabe, artist Chris Prunckle reviews Purgatory, the new album from Kentucky storyteller Tyler Childers, in his signature six-panel comic strip form. Click on the image for full resolution (best viewed on desktop):
[rating=6.00] Eight albums into his decorated blues rock career, guitar virtuoso Kenny Wayne Shepherd is ready for a change. He is no longer the fresh-faced six-string gunslinger dropping jaws with
[rating=8.00 Dark Matter, Randy Newman’s first new album of the 2010s, is his wildest and wooliest yet. That is, if you don’t count his 1979 album Born Again – where
[rating=7.00] Manchester Orchestra’s fifth album is another unexpected detour from a band that seems to reinvent itself with each release. From the underrated excellence of their 2006 debut to the
[rating=7.00] When Allen Toussaint passed away in 2015 at the age of 77 the United States lost a cultural icon, but no place felt his loss as hard as his
In the newest installment of Wannabe, artist Chris Prunckle reviews Trouble Maker, the new album from legendary punks Rancid, in his signature six-panel comic strip form. Click on the image for full resolution (best viewed on desktop):
[rating=3.00] In 2004, Arcade Fire released their debut album, Funeral, to critical acclaim and seemingly overnight became the new lords of the indie rock scene, garnering high praise from almost
The simpatico relationship between Jerry Garcia and Merl Saunders is already well-documented—for starters, see Keystone Companions: The Complete 1973 Fantasy Recordings—but the audience’s demand for the fruits of their chemistry
