This blistering punk-rock debut from a 55-year-old veteran of the scene delivers urgent music for evergreen unease. These are weary, angry songs, crafted with an insatiable verve and an almost triumphant fury.
On his latest album, the singer-songwriter documents the tumultuous months of late spring and early summer 2020, occupying a sweet spot at the intersection of folk, punk, country, and Americana.
The Los Angeles producer’ upbeat second LP is a short, feature-heavy collection that emphasizes his charmingly loose funk and synth-pop arrangements.
In drifting arrangements for saxophone, keyboards, and contemplative vocals, thetrio invents a singular style of shipwrecked yacht rock that’s well suited to the strange pace of 2020.
The 76-year-old synth-folk pioneer and transgender icon talks about channeling Odetta, keeping Annie Lennox on repeat, and hearing the sounds within silence.
In this Rising interview, the 26-year-old singer-songwriter based in Accra, Ghana talks about her genre-bending sound, her punk mentality, and the globalization of African music.
Megan Thee Stallion also rates Sesame Street, FaceTime in public, and more in this episode of Over/Under.
A 4xLP box set pays tribute to the influential Athens band, who in the early ’80s pioneered a stripped-down post-punk sound that was raw, minimalist, brainy, and danceable.
The group’s second album skates between rhythmic, mechanical churn and abstracted instrumental sweeps, seeking the boundaries between natural, artificial, and supernatural.
On their latest EP, the UK dance duo amp up their latent melancholy, luxuriating in a rather British strain of pastoral electronica.
The Ohio rapper’s new album sounds like a randomly generated playlist: tons of options, very little soul.
