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The Twilight Sad’s masterpiece reissued.
Investigating the roots of shoegaze in the 1960s.
Peter Gabriel’s breakthrough and the real meaning of “Solsbury Hill.”
What chances would Eric Satie have if he were around today as an unknown?
On Chris Barnes, death metal pioneer and noted “cookie-monster” vocalist.
Ron Howard’s Beatles ’64 documentary isn’t revelatory, but it’s enjoyable celebration of the greatest band of all time.
Skeptical curiosity about A Complete Unknown and revisiting Bob Dylan’s 1974 tour.
The Kinks were a great, somewhat unheralded band in the mid-1960s. After mass popularity hit, they hit the skids. What year is it (#527)
Pat Conte’s Atlas of Instruments: Fiddles Vol. 1 is a cosmopolitan triumph.
My father’s “system” was sacred.
The soul-crushing whistle of Leonard Cohen during the best performance of his life, “One of Us Cannot be Wrong” at Isle of Wight 1970.
It’s difficult to overstate the impact Barry McGuire’s “Eve of Destruction” had when it was released in 1965.
Perhaps music is adaptive, its purpose soothing fussy babies (and their parents).
Radiohead meets Bill Evans and Thomas Merton.
Doechii is changing the game.
The ring is set: hip-hop’s current showdown.
The best of the worst songs for the season.
Interlopers and songbirds, rookies and hurtin’ Albertans: they all helped make this a great year.
The greatest hits afterparty with Graham Nash, Quaaludes, and Polly.
The music of my youth could’ve been worse.
The Franklin County Trucking Company makes great rock music for this extremely trucking time.
Overlooked exotica album presented in its entirety.
Full show from Washington, DC on November 6, 1996.
20-minute track from Sanders’ 1974 album Love in Us All.
Full live album by the late songwriter.
One of the greatest soundtracks of the 1970s, later used by Quentin Tarantino in Jackie Brown.
Music video for the song from Sinister Grift, out now on Domino.
Recorded just months before the release of Merriweather Post Pavilion.
The complete session recorded by Boards of Canada on June 16, 1998 for John Peel on BBC Radio 1.
The late songwriter performs “Between the Bars,” “Angeles,” and Big Star’s “Thirteen.”