Jun 13th 58 Comments
There’s a scene in the trailer for the 2010 Magnetic Fields’ documentary Strange Powers: Stephin Merritt And The Magnetic Fields where a cab driver asks Stephin Merritt, “Why are they making a… Read Story »
Jun 5th 98 Comments
Over Memorial Day weekend, it was breathlessly announced that Arcade Fire were in the process of mixing their new album. Few other details have been released about the follow-up to 2010's Grammy… Read Story »
May 31st 19 Comments
Before there was Britpop, there was Suede. Way back in '92, Blur were already around, having dropped an album no one much cared about. Pulp had been around forever, long enough to have had their shot… Read Story »
May 23rd 81 Comments
Where are you, Fiona Apple? After a banner 2012, the singer-songwriter recently cancelled her only scheduled appearance for 2013, at Barcelona's Primavera Sound festival; she also torpedoed a slew of… Read Story »
May 15th 97 Comments
It's kind of a stretch to connect James Murphy's most recent dismissal of an LCD Soundsystem reunion with the release of “Get Lucky", which happened within a few days of each other, but it's still… Read Story »
May 9th 121 Comments
“I want to be the Patti Smith of now, with something like ‘Rock ‘n’ Roll Nigger’ blaring out of kids’ speakers. I fantasize about that, but I’m not going to be that. I’m just not that… Read Story »
May 3rd 72 Comments
The Band has a deserved reputation as one of the true oracles of American music at its essence -- their seamless distillation of blues, jazz, folk, country, rockabilly, and soul can tell a… Read Story »
Apr 25th 136 Comments
"To me, Conor Oberst resembles Patti Smith a great deal," R.E.M.'s Michael Stipe told me in an interview back in 2008. "As a performer, as a magnet. He's just got that thing that she's got." The… Read Story »
Apr 17th 14 Comments
Tackling the 10 best Public Image Ltd. songs is a daunting task. First question is, who exactly is PiL? Yes, there is a recent album called This Is PiL that some might think answers the question, but… Read Story »
Apr 10th 197 Comments
For many people who listen to the National, and by guitarist Aaron Dessner's own admission, the band's career started in 2007. "When we were in the process of making Boxer we knew that we had one… Read Story »
