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The controversial producer's influence is undeniable on the underground Florida hip-hop scene.
Throw Tom Waits, Thelonious Monk, and Kurt Weill into a blender, and it still doesn’t fully capture the essence of Boister.
Was nu metal really that bad?
Some odd career decisions limited his name recognition.
Revisiting Green Day's late 1980s records, written and recorded when they were still teenagers.
The topic evokes the full gamut of emotions, so songwriters are attracted to it.
I’m not a huge Band fan, but the archival footage is spectacular.
On one of rock music's most tragically overlooked groups, victims of an impatient record label.
Dan Snaith's fifth album as Caribou, Suddenly, is his most personal yet.
The Complete De Wolfe Recordings collects long out of print albums by The Electric Banana, an extraordinary 1960s curio.
On A Love That’s Sound, a lesser known album by The 13th Floor Elevators.
Nobody was sharing a drink they call loneliness.
All he was trying to do, really, was make a few things clear in an upsettingly murky world.
An unconventional rock/blues/country outsider musician still doesn’t define Hasil Adkins.
Authoritarian structures are inimical to good art in many ways.
Searching for love in all the wrong places.
Gender rebels and the last best rock album.
There’s no mystery to be plumbed anywhere on this album.
Mendelssohn’s conservatism seems completely at odds with both this innate talent and his cosmopolitan existence.
New albums by Cody Jinks and Miranda Lambert are very theatrical.
Bob Marley and Jimmy Cliff.
Look, just put this on and close your eyes, you'll feel better.
The first track from his criminally overlooked score for The Catherine Wheel.
A very sad song for a very sad movie by Kelly Reichardt, whose First Cow is out this month.
An acoustic version recorded during scrapped sessions with Jon Brion in early 2001.
How does that grab you?
Shrimp techno-house.
An instrumental cover of the Grateful Dead song by Steel Your Face.
Complete footage of an hour long show sometime in 1969.
Is this album ever going to come out?