The Handsome Family’s new record began with a scream in the night. “It was a bleak winter during the middle of the pandemic,” says Brett Sparks. “One night around 4
Incredibly, the Zamrock icons WITCH have returned with their first new album in almost 40 years. Aptly titled Zango after a phrase meaning meeting place, the group’s two core remaining
A somewhat eccentric exercise in nostalgia, Bob Dylan’s Shadow Kingdom is certainly unique as an entry in the Nobel Laureate’s discography. But it is deceptively memorable for the very same reasons its
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Ten albums and 30 years into their career, Rancid is sticking with a formula they pretty much perfected two albums into it in the 1990s, down to using the same
Give Beach Fossils credit, despite longtime comparisons to Wild Nothing, DIIV, and Real Estate, Dustin Payseur has always done a better job navigating the restraints of his sound. Beach Fossil’s
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In their first album of new material in five years, Canada’s reining family of alt-country are back with 10 new songs of moody, sweet, sad, and strongly affecting sketches about
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