May 23rd 62 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 96 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 71 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 »
Apr 5th 53 Comments
Rock and roll has never lacked for singular characters, and amongst that cavalcade of the insanely great and greatly insane, Lewis Allen "Lou" Reed takes second chair to nobody. Lou is an… Read Story »
Mar 29th 178 Comments
New Yorkers like to think of New York as the center of the universe, or at least the center of gravity where cool is concerned. And, dammit, no matter how thoroughly and vigorously landlocked dolts… Read Story »
Mar 18th 54 Comments
First emerging in the early '80s, They Might Be Giants were compelling, confounding, and arguably without precedent. They remain, 30 years after the fact, relics of a period in which underground… Read Story »
