Mitski has long drawn from folk, rock, and pop influences in her music, but The Land is Inhospitable and So Are We reaches beyond that for a more classical sound.
The sophomore release from the Canadian quartet The Beaches is a blast of riveting anthems to the unstable dating life one experiences in one’s 20s as Blame My Ex, careens
When the Count Basie Orchestra (CBO) comes to mind, so too do the names of blues singers and shouters Jimmy Rushing, Big Joe Williams, Ray Charles, Helen Humes, the immortal
The cynical might contend the two-CD set of Who’s Next/Life House merely scratches the surface of the larger compendium from which comes its contents. But it’s more accurate to term
From the hardcover book, tour program, and poster to the rice paper sleeves that enshroud the four compact discs in replica LP covers, niceties abound in the package of BBA
Following the success of 2021’s Promises with Floating Points (aka Sam Shepard) and the London Symphony Orchestra, there’s been a resurgence of interest in the late Pharaoh Sanders, who unexpectedly
Explosions In The Sky has done exactly that. In a burst of pure musicianship, the band has gone further than most instrumental rock groups can say they’ve gone, racking up
Stone, the new Baroness album, is the first by the Savannah band without a color in its title, but it still has everything expected in a Baroness record. The band
Titling the Pretenders’ twelfth studio album Relentless is absolutely fitting and not just for its tongue-in-cheek cover graphic. The name of the record is fully in keeping with the feisty
The self-produced, sophomore album from Milwaukee, WI-based artist Buffalo Nichols is an ear-opening mix of reimagined blues and folk songs as The Fatalist captures the current confusing zeitgeist while bleakly
