Still ahead of its time one decade on, Jarboe and Byla's Viscera moves to vinyl for the first time on 20 July. Listen now.
David Byrne's American Utopia looks for a spot closer to the center of the American conversation.
A Perfect Circle balances the constructive dissemination of contemporary society in their unique way and, in the process, rather surprisingly, may have just made one of the most prescient albums of the year.
Eleanor Friedberger deserves some applause for remaining characteristic yet experimental on this full-length, but only her most diehard fans will find enough to enjoy here.
With a strange history and an unusual assortment of tracks, Who guitarist Pete Townshend's first solo album still offers plenty of joy.
Pere Ubu's latest reissue shows a band known for abrasive rock music, with a vocalist more likely to screech than harmonize, taking a left turn towards late '80s radio pop-rock.
Disappears have gone, but its former members in FACS take the mission to new terrain on Negative Houses.
Negative Houses shows FACS to be fairly deep in the lineage of Chicago's long, storied history of dissonant post-punk.
Newcomers to Self Esteem will find a singer who can command in front of the camera as well as in the studio.
Showtime's XTC: This Is Pop draws worthy attention to this underrated band. But does their music still hold up?
On their most polished album to date, Montreal art-rockers Ought strike a balance between the old and the new.
Somehow, in spite of listening to Kate Bush, King Crimson, Hall and Oates, and the Blue Nile, Field Music sound like 10CC playing the hits of Steve Reich. PopMatters asked Peter Brewis about how this can happen in 2018.
Jazz/art-rock ensemble Negative Press Project creates a fulfilling, mostly instrumental set of covers and translations of Jeff Buckley's timeless music.
Rolling Stone contributing editor Anthony DeCurtis has written an arresting, confrontational, and oftentimes beautiful biography of the notoriously cagy musician.
Simple Minds frontman Jim Kerr joins us to discuss the new Simple Minds album Walk Between Worlds, and to reflect on his four decades in one of the most influential bands to emerge from the UK post-punk scene of the late '70s and early '80s.
More than two decades later, Wilco's first two albums are remastered and reissued with an expanded track list. Together, they paint a picture of a new band struggling to find themselves only to do it in an exceptional manner.
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