80. Drive-By Truckers – Decoration Day [New West] Decoration Day came on the heels of 2001’s Southern Rock Opera, a loose concept album about growing up in the shadows of Lynyrd Skynyrd, George Wallace, and “the duality of the Southern thing.” It… Read More
“I think self-depreciation is important in music; there is such an art to saying something really serious in a humorous way. I think Jarvis Cocker (Pulp) nailed this, along with people like Morrissey and Elliot Smith. To me, even the… Read More
Iconoclastic musician Frank Zappa created his own genre, blending rock, jazz, R&B, and whatever else tickled his fancy, and forging a unique career that included flirtations with the pop charts and run-ins with Tipper Gore's record-labelling Parents Music Resource Center. Zappa's one-of-a-kind… Read More
Grimes is here to sing us all a sweet lullaby. The Miss Anthropocene punk-pixie-cyborg has kept relatively off the grid in recent months ever since the arrival of her human (?) baby, but she’s quietly been working on something healing… Read More
“You look like you could use some more…” Generally speaking, the Art of Wanting More always plays out well in pop – “gimme, gimme more,” “more, more, more,” “gimme just a little bit more…” – and K/DA are here to… Read More
You can find million-and-one words in the music press about “supergroups”—the thrills and spills that occur when hotshots from different bands get together to create a new group mixing players who are otherwise leaders of acclaim. Not unlike basketball teams… Read More
Miley Cyrus is having quite a moment – some might even say it’s shaping up to be her best era yet. And while, yes, the newly named Plastic Hearts era has largely been dominated by covers (and the amazing “Midnight… Read More
Two new Mystery Science Theater 3000 shorts are being released this week featuring original host and series creator Joel Hodgson, Bill Corbett (who played Crow T. Robot during the Sci-Fi Channel years) and J. Elvis Weinstein (the original voice of… Read More
Kindness · Chic It Immediately Robyn is reminiscing about less socially distanced days. The Swedish Queen of Pop™ marked the two year anniversary of her sad, sweetly resilient record Honey – still a triumph! – with a message to fans… Read More
Oneohtrix Point Never's new album Magic Oneohtrix Point Never comes out this Friday (10/30) via Warp, and he's now released another suite from the album with five new songs, one of which features The Weeknd (who also crossed paths with… Read More