This week: Tindersticks deliver one of their best, most unusual records to date; Mogwai give us what we expect and what we want on their 10th album; a genuinely great live album from The Fall vaults; Sloan‘s Patrick Pentland releases… Read More
This week: Tindersticks deliver one of their best, most unusual records to date; Mogwai give us what we expect and what we want on their 10th album; a genuinely great live album from The Fall vaults; Sloan‘s Patrick Pentland releases… Read More
This is a hugely stacked week for new music. I highlight 13 new albums below, and here are a bunch of honorable mentions: Pauline Anna Strom (her first album in 30 years, released after her 2020 death), Socioclast, STR4TA, Suffering… Read More
Arguably the greatest variety show from the genre’s ’70s heyday, The Muppet Show truly offered something for the whole family. It was a mix of old-fashioned “let’s put on a show” moxie, with ’70s razzle-dazzle, big-name guest stars and Jim Henson’s good-humored… Read More
Bill Callahan and Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy have continued their collaborative covers series, and this new one is a very special one. It’s of “The Wild Kindness” by the late David Berman‘s band Silver Jews, and guests on this one include… Read More
Pink Siifu and Fly Anakin‘s collaborative album Fly Siifu’s was one of our favorite rap albums of 2020, so it’s very cool news that now they’ve got even more music together: a new nine-song EP called $mokebreak due March 19… Read More
Field Music have announced their eighth album which is titled Flat White Moon and will be out April 23 via Memphis Industries. Following 2020’s historically based Making A New World and 2018’s great, Brexit-influenced Open Here, brothers David and Peter… Read More
I’ve seen a lot of live-streamed shows over the past year, but none have been stranger than the Hold Steady’s early December gigs at the Brooklyn Bowl. As you’d expect, they were playing in an empty room. Well, physically empty.… Read More
As new strains of the deadly coronavirus circulate globally, it seems that the more positive pandemic of post-punk continually mutates, re-infecting us with new renditions of itself every few years. Post-punk emanated from punk, of course, first as a reaction… Read More
It’s been over ten years since heavy metal legend Ronnie James Dio died, but now an autobiography that the Dio/Rainbow/Black Sabbath/Elf frontman was working on before his death is scheduled to be released this July. Named after Dio’s classic 1983… Read More