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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]