Bleachers Take The Sadness Out Of Saturday Night RCA Everyone has that friend, maybe even been that friend – the one who gets hooked on a song and needs you to know it. Sometimes the infatuation will pass after a few days, sometimes weeks, [...]
Guided By Voices Styles We Paid For Rockathon Records The new Guided By Voices album wasn’t supposed to be like this. At the beginning of the year, band mastermind Robert Pollard was plotting an album recorded entirely with analog equipment, [...]
Cage The Elephant Social Cues RCA Records Cage the Elephant are of a rare breed. They’ve been at it for over decade and have still found a niche where they can be a commercially successful rock band in the streaming era, a rare feat. Like their [...]
Big Business The Beast You Are Joyful Noise Recordings Most doom metal songs are made to get lost in. 20-minute (or an hour) long epics aren’t a rarity. Big Business gets right to the point. Almost every track on their most recent The Beast You [...]
The Black Tones Cobain And Cornbread Independent If albums were judged just on their covers, Cobain and Cornbread would be on every year-end list. It’s over-the-top goofiness in the best way possible. The Black Tones, Seattle-based twins Eva [...]
Steve Earle & The Dukes Guy New West Records Most cover albums are pretty low-stakes affairs, especially when the creator is an aging legend whose legacy is secure. Not so for Steve Earle. “No way I could get out of doing this record”, said [...]
WORDS AND TOURS A CONVERSATION WITH MIKE WARNE OF PKEW PKEW PKEW “Why’s this fucking dick gotta be such a cock…” Pkew Pkew Pkew turned their scorn toward a wide array of targets on their first album; everyone from aged-out skateboarders, to [...]
LOOKING BACK AND GIVING BACK A CONVERSATION WITH SUE FOLEY It just keeps getting better for Sue Foley. The Canadian blues veteran has been putting out records for over twenty-five years. She’s toured the world and won a Juno Award. While some [...]
Panda Bear Buoys Domino Records Sometimes a childlike curiosity can pay off. In a discography spanning almost two decades, both as a member of the legendary Animal Collective and working solo as Panda Bear, Noah Lennox has tried his hand in [...]
Jukebox The Ghost Let Live & Let Ghosts (10th Anniversary Edition) Yep Roc Records From Billy Joel to the keyboard kid in School of Rock, pianos haven’t always been considered the “cool” instrument in rock. No one told Jukebox the Ghost. [...]
Stove ‘s Favorite Friend Exploding In Sound Combining pop melodies with a wall of guitar noise is a trick as old as indie rock itself. It’s a style that Steve Hartlett has been working in for years now, first with Ovlov and now in Stove. Their [...]
