What Gen X Thinks of Millennial Metalheads
One of the strangest things about being a Millennial in heavy music is realizing that you are basically Gen X’s baby goth.
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Jon Hopkins Goes Back to Nature with ‘Wilding’
Jon Hopkins and Biggi Hilmars’ soundtrack, Wilding, achieves something modest but meaningful — music that makes space for the land to breathe.
‘Josephine’ Crawls Under Your Skin and Stays
With crime drama Josephine, Beth de Araújo has crafted a film that first and foremost doesn’t need to be reckoned with so much as sat with.
Cellist Tomeka Reid Creates Dancing String Band Jazz
Tomeka Reid’s music is full of the elements that have always made it fun to hear: a groove, memorable melodies, collective spirit, and conversation.
Barry Walker Jr.’s Pedal Steel Roams an Ethereal Pasture
Barry Walker Jr.’s songs are at once somber and celebratory; they sound like a constant soundtrack to discovery, rebirth, or a hard-won peace.
Depeche Mode’s “Stripped” Encapsulates Analog to Algorithmic Longing
In future generations, it is easy to see Depeche Mode’s “Stripped” inspiring the same sensual viscerality as humans being penetrated by their AI sex dolls.
Smashing Pumpkins Deliver on Grunge and Grandeur
Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness was a huge triumph in 1995, elevating the Smashing Pumpkins to global icons during their 1996 world tour.
Congratulations Show Potential on the Patchy ‘Join Hands’
Potential comes in many forms, and for congratulations, it stems from the musicianship: high and mighty, stealth and singular.
Revisiting Drive-By Truckers’ ‘Decoration Day’ Is Rewarding
Decoration Day was the album that proved Drive-By Truckers weren’t going to be a flash in the pan. It’s a triumph from start to finish.
Stephanie Lamprea and Alistair MacDonald Are Mesmerizing
Ecstatic Visions is an ambitious interpretation of new and recent compositions from the unique duo of Stephanie Lamprea and Alistair MacDonald.
Shakey Graves Proclaims That Love Lasts Forever
Austin homeboy recently celebrated the anniversary of Shakey Graves Day on 9 February by releasing a new single and video.
The Band’s Rick Danko Possessed a Voice for the Ages
With his old-timey, soul-inflected voice, Rick Danko could sink like an anchor, plumbing the depths of existence that most singers would have to drown themselves to reach.