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Brandi Carlile opens The Human Tour in Philadelphia this week.
Bill Stump's impact on extreme music has been widely acknowledged, but his most important contribution was as an archivist.
J.D. Considine’s masterpiece.
I applaud Bandcamp for drawing a boundary on what’s acceptable to their audience.
Where you’ll find me.
Laraaji has traveled far down a well-worn path.
Rosalía's LUX is an intriguing collision of commercialism and academic obscurity.
The guitar virtuoso talked to me about film school, the creative process, and the state of instrumental guitar music.
These guys won't be around much longer.
Bennington defends Thurston Moore (a friend) from two-year-old negative reviews.
The Wall Street Journal continues its slide.
Chubby Checker, born Ernest Evans in 1941, is still performing, still on the road at 83.
If we threw away every work made by a bad person, there would be almost nothing left.
Another day of life at a retail music store.
The lyrics of their later work lurch between Mother-Goose level nursery rhymes and half-baked spiritual hooey.
I watch upon your scorpion who crawls across your circus floor.
Blondes galore, hardcore honky-tonk, the Western intellectual canon as a whole: this year's traditionalists sound fresh and eccentric as well as old-time.
You might blame Fleetwood Mac or the Black Eyed Peas. I blame the Beatles and Bob Dylan.
An extraordinarily accomplished country debut.
Labeling Irish rap group Kneecap as “terrorists” is ludicrous and insults history.
A scholar and a gentlewoman.
The legendary songwriter talks about why The Beatles will never reunite and more in this 1990 interview.
The Led Zeppelin frontman on Charlie Feathers, The Low Anthem, Viktor Krauss, and more.
The legendary audio engineer talks about working with Nirvana, Slayer, Jeff Buckley, and more in this new interview with Rick Beato.
The Wilco frontman talks about his new solo album, a triple-LP called Twilight Override, in this new interview.
The band perform the lead single from Antics on this September 2004 episode of The Tonight Show with Jay Leno.
The singer talks disillusionment, integrity, and his uneasy relationship with the music industry just as his band was splitting up.
The band play three songs earlier this month at Hey Sailor in Seaport, Maine.
The second side of 1971's Jack Johnson, with an unforgettable bassline by Michael Henderson.
The late singer performs with a full band at The Stone Pony in New Jersey in this recording from May 16, 2019.