rock & roll

Anika Pyle (Chumped, Katie Ellen) found the Philly band’s debut record to be almost too real.

Hutch Harris of the Thermals talks teaching actors how to be musicians.

Sorry Radiohead. Sorry Bowie. It’s all about those fantastic Monkee voices.

And learned some pretty vital lessons in the process.

Sadly, it was cockless and weak as a runt child's piss.

Dave Hill dishes out love advice — and love songs — to the lovelorn.

Oreos, Spam and panty-dropping. How can this Talkhouse Music playlist NOT put you in the mood?

Hood's playlist will make you laugh, cry and... cry some more.

Stephin Merritt (Magnetic Fields), Kim Gordon, Merrill Garbus (Tune-Yards), Will Sheff (Okkervil River) and more pay tribute to an icon.

This record harks back to the ‘90s while simultaneously reassuring the listener that they’re not alone in their millennial confusion.

Our middle-aged writer takes on the massive boy band's latest—but turns down the iPod lest any music leak out and people think he's creepy and mental.

Summer of 1968, I’m a kid visiting my dad’s family in west Texas. One day, my 16-year-old cousin KJ holed up in his room for hours listening to...