“Too Little Too Late” Maroon kicks off with one of the best power-pop songs the band ever wrote, “Too Little Too Late”. It has a simple but catchy guitar riff, a powerful lead vocal from Steven Page, and a strong… Read More
Addis Ababa-based quintet Qwanqwa’s initial plans for their third album, the succinctly titled Volume Three, went as awry as everything else this year. Recorded in 2017 with a slightly different lineup than today’s Qwanqwa, the group planned to release Volume… Read More
Kate Brown’s Manual for Survival: An Environmental History of the Chernobyl Disaster builds on her expertise in the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear disaster and its consequences. Her previous books, most recently Dispatches from Dystopia: Histories of Places Not Yet Forgotten (2014),… Read More
Everyone has their personal heroes. And for me, it’s all about @Pop_Activism. For those not yet familiar with their work, the account has made it their personal mission to bring the pop we love into the modern era by making… Read More
When Sam Prekop isn’t crafting progressive, polyrhythmic pop tunes as the singer and guitarist for the Sea and Cake, he’s releasing records under his own name and exploring the outer possibilities of electronic music with modular synthesizers. Prekop is subtle… Read More
If we could agree that Nicholas Buccola’s The Fire Is Upon Us: James Baldwin, William F. Buckley, Jr. and the Debate over Race in America is a book that has found its moment in 2020, as some critics have said… Read More
The Avalanches have released a handful of singles so far this year and they've now announced a new album, titled We Will Always Love You, which was the title of their single from February that featured Blood Orange. While the… Read More
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The late, great John Prine's first seven albums are being collected onto a new box set titled Crooked Piece of Time: The Atlantic and Asylum Albums 1971-1980 that will be out via Rhino on October 23. The set includes John… Read More
The amazing Robert Wyatt has never really been a "hits" guy — the closest he came was with his gorgeous cover of Elvis Costello's "Shipbuilding" which reached #35 in the UK charts in 1983. But he's got a deep catalog… Read More