album reviews

In my previous band’s occasional forays into cross-country touring, we’d usually play small clubs with audiences made up of the local ex-hardcore...

With his overflowing facility on the electric bass, Thundercat, aka Steven Bruner, has a musical trajectory that started at a young age and seems...

There's a dream I had in middle school that has stuck with me my whole life. In the dream I was offered a choice between two cars: a red 1988...

In 1990, I heard Mavis Staples' voice for the first time. That year, I moved to a new state, a new culture, and a new high school, and I found...

I once saw a briefly-posted video on the Stones Throw label's website of a lecture Otis Jackson, Jr., aka hyper-prolific producer/rapper/musician...

My band was barreling down Highway 8 from Phoenix to San Diego, where we drove past the same buttery sand dunes where, in Return of the Jedi...

Some records are giant mistakes. A revered artist or a promising young band will take a sharp left turn and make an overtly ambitious...

Before I was sent Tomorrow’s Harvest, I was first administered a drip of previous Boards of Canada albums, as if without the proper...

Most musicians know — well, hopefully, they do — that ecstatic feeling of hearing a record so good, so exciting and inspirational that it...

I hardly ever get high anymore. It must be a sign of old age, as my younger, higher-living friends suggest. But for some reason I thought it might...

As tropes go, the "vastly talented psychedelic/folk guitarist making fantastic records" is enjoying one hell of a heady showing these days.

It is our job today to speak to the elusive vocal quality known as flow, and to attempt, as with other elusive musical terms such as swing or feel...