Babehoven’s Indie Folk-Pop Feels a Little Undercooked on ‘Light Moving Time’
Babehoven’s Maya Bon is a strong vocalist with a good sense of melody, and it’s the vocal melodies that keep Light Moving Time engaging.
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The 20 Best Jazz Albums for Beginners
If you’ve always wanted to get interested in jazz, jump in. Don’t approach it with fear or a sense that you don’t know enough about it. It’s just a smorgasbord of stuff to enjoy.
15 Best Madonna Songs of All Time
These are the most significant Madonna songs that traverse the vast terrain of subjects, styles, and themes she has gravitated towards across her long career.
Mac DeMarco Leaves Himself Behind on ‘Five Easy Hot Dogs’
Mac Demarco’s instrumental sixth record, Five Easy Hot Dogs, recorded in hotels and motels over four months, floats by in a tranquil, listless haze.
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MetalMatters: The Best Metal Albums of December 2022
Best metal albums feature Qrixkuor’s dissonant death metal does not hold back, Misþyrming’s black metal closes in its true form and Hammers of Misfortune make their return.
We Are Scientists Add 1980s Synths to Their Power Pop on ‘Lobes’
We Are Scientists’ Lobes is notable for building its songs specifically around keyboard lines and exploration of 1980s-style synth tones.
Blur Drummer Dave Rowntree Emerges Into the Spotlight
Blur drummer Dave Rowntree’s Radio Songs is the anti-All Things Must Pass, a soft reminder that, hey, the drummer can write and sing too.
Songs of the Earth: Woody Guthrie to Neil Young
How American folk songs of the Earth, from Woody Guthrie to Neil Young, tilled the soil for the rise of ‘Green Pop’.
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Jeff Heiskell Discusses the Judybats’ Exquisite ‘Pain Makes You Beautiful’ at 30
Brisk, dreamy, achingly plaintive: Rarely has such a ghostly character been maintained so steadily, and so well, as on the Judybats’ ephemeral masterpiece.
Hiding in Plain Sight: Bob Dylan’s ‘Good As I Been to You’ at 30
Good As I Been To You was warmly received by critics, but a Bob Dylan album of covers with a stripped-down, rough-edged acoustic aesthetic did not satisfy fans’ hunger for new Dylan material.
The Alchemy of the Velvet Underground’s Art
In The Velvet Underground documentary, Todd Haynes shows the music catapulting across time and space to Andy Warhol’s Factory, where the alchemy worked its magic.
The 25 Best David Bowie Deep Tracks
For all of the imagery that dominated the religiosity of David Bowie what matters most are the songs. Here are 25 killer deep-cut Bowie originals, album by album.
