Sunny Day Real Estate Reread Their Diary Mdou Moctar – Funeral For JusticeMatador Records Mdou Moctar’s 2021 album, Afrique Victime, marked a crucial breakthrough for the acclaimed Nigerien guitarist. His trademark fusion of Tuareg music […]
Sunny Day Real Estate Reread Their Diary
You Gotta Keep ‘Em Alienated: Our 1998 Offspring Feature Sunny Day Real Estate – Diary—Live at London Bridge Studio “Novum Vetus,” the title of the only new-to-you song on Diary—Live at London Bridge Studio, roughly […]
Iron & Wine Find Hope in Despair in Hope in Despair
Watch Calexico and Iron & Wine’s Tiny Desk Concert Iron & Wine – Light VerseSub Pop It would be taking things too far to categorize Light Verse as a “post-pandemic” album. Yet its emergent themes […]
Beyond The Sea
Beyond The Sea Maybe there’s some irony in the fact that the first time Jon Muq ever flew on an airplane, his destination was a cruise ship that would take him on a months-long journey […]
Kamasi Washington’s Epic Expectations
Brittany Davis on New Album Image Issues and Navigating a Visual World Kamasi Washington – Fearless MovementYoung You can argue about the various ways Kamasi Washington has impacted jazz culture, but one thing is undeniable: […]
Mandy, Indiana’s International Noise Conspiracy
Our Editors Pick Their Albums of the Year Mandy, Indiana don’t get around as much as they’d like. They’re a noise band out of Manchester, England, and it’s where they spend most of their days […]
Thom Yorke Keeps Exploring With Haunting Confidenza Soundtrack
The Smile Debut Paul Thomas Anderson Video, Tease More New Music Thom Yorke – Confidenza OSTXL Recordings Thom Yorke’s latest soundtrack opens with “The Big City,” an electro-symphonic slumber of synth bleeps and vocal blips. The […]
Hovvdy Spin Gold From the Yarn of Time
5 Albums I Can’t Live Without: HAUSER Hovvdy – HovvdyArts & Crafts The songs from Hovvdy, Texas natives Charlie Martin and Will Taylor, lead with their heart. It doesn’t matter if it’s inconvenient or unpolished—life’s […]
Give Charley Crockett Your Tired, Your Poor
Where to Next, Charley Crockett? Charley Crockett – $10 CowboySon of Davy/Thirty Tigers There’s always someone who’s shit out of luck in Charley Crockett’s songs, but the desperation is especially palpable on $10 Cowboy, his […]
Sam Barber Is in Go-Mode
Sam Barber Is in Go-Mode He’s opened shows for Bruce Springsteen and Ed Sheeran, has been compared to one of his heroes, Zach Bryan, and somehow made it out of a town of roughly 200 […]
Manchester Legends A Certain Ratio Still Get It Understood
The 10 Best Reissues of September: Billy Gibbons, Factory Records, and the Most Important Cassette of the CD Era A Certain Ratio – It All Comes Down to ThisMute Eclectic post-punkers A Certain Ratio have […]
Fat Dog’s Chaos Mode
Fat Dog’s Chaos Mode Fat Dog are kind of a wreck. After being “tied up with something,” frontman and Fat Dog mastermind Joe Love finally beams in on his girlfriend’s phone, because he apparently has […]