Lambchop’s ‘Punching the Clown’ Is Worth the 4-Year Wait
With acoustic guitar and banjo, Lambchop return to their Nashville roots, while the choruses create yet another idiosyncratic background for musings on America.
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Lambchop Lies Down on Broadway with ‘Showtunes’
If the stereotype about show tunes is that they are boldly performed and exciting, Lambchop stand the tropes on their head with Showtunes.
Lambchop’s Kurt Wagner Discusses Their New Covers EP and Pandemic Musical Life
The frontman of "the most fucked-up country band in Nashville" returns Lambchop to their roots on TRIP. Each group member picked a classic song and was bandleader for a day, resulting in a record that reveals Lambchop's core influences in striking new light.
Lambchop Surveys the Senses on ‘This (is what I wanted to tell you)’
Lambchop's new album is the musical equivalent of that final "walk" monologue from Synecdoche, New York. It's a heavy listen, but potentially a rapturous one as well, for anyone who has ever experienced a reverie of aging and all it entails.
HeCTA: The Diet
Inspired by '70s dance culture and '60s standup comedy, Kurt Wagner and some Lambchop cohorts come up with an eclectic electronic collection.
Lambchop: Nixon
Age has given Lambchop's Nixon additional poignance and grace, and it fully deserves the recognition Merge Records is giving it as the launch of their anniversary celebrations.
Listening Ahead: Anticipated Releases for Early 2014
As the record release schedule wakes up from its year-end hibernation, so too does "Listening Ahead" to cover a strong slate of eagerly anticipated early 2014 albums.