With the rainy and gloomy days of April now upon us, certain music just feels tailor-made for melancholy mornings vibing out at your local coffeehouse. And for this writer, you’d
Since reuniting in 2005, Chicago pop-punk band the Smoking Popes have been, to put it kindly, conservative with their album output. In fact, Lovely Stuff, their latest release, marks only
The Minneapolis-based Night Moves have announced Double Life, their fourth LP and first in six years, which is due out July 25 on Domino. Co-produced with Jarvis Taveniere (Woods, Waxahatchee, David Berman), Double Life is at once the most candid and
Lauren Wanamaker is a folk singer/songwriter originally from Washington State, now based in Nashville, Tennessee. Citing Sufjan Stevens, Adrianne Lenker, and Neko Case as some of her most steadfast inspirations,
Born and raised in Harlem, NY, the music and culture of the city played a significant role in influencing Mike Mitch’s love for the craft. Realizing his voice mattered, Mitch
The Slants’ final full-length album, aptly titled The Band Plays On, is a fourteen-track collection of the band’s melodic, highly-danceable synth-pop, which was released digitally and on vinyl. Unlike prior
With Beth Gibbons out doing her solo thing supporting her pensive new album Lives Outgrown, it seems like a good time to dust off some of those classic Portishead records
It’s no slight understatement to declare Miles Davis’ Bitches Brew (released 3/30/70) a paradigm-shifting work. Not that its groundbreaking likes were any more or less profound than Birth of The Cool from 1957, the
West Coast-born genre blender Beck has established one of modern rock music’s most diverse and captivating discographies. From his explorations into electronic pop balladry (2019’s Hyperspace) to stretching the limits
Steely Dan co-leaders Donald Fagen and Walter Becker cultivate the most sympathetic characters of their career on the ten songs composed for the now fifty-year-old Katy Lied. But as an
