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Four years after his death, I still can’t listen to Bowie’s final record.
I wish businesses swapped pop music for Brian Eno.
From cisgender thicket-dwellers to bluegrass Beyoncés.
Rock music in the 2010s was boring, and the only group that was totally original was Death Grips.
But they also make me nostalgic for my first experimental band.
On Van Morrison's Astral Weeks and Moondance, Lester Bangs, Bill Callahan, and growing old with grace.
In Cauda Venenum is like an evolution of the best and most challenging rock of the 1970s.
Listening to Kanye West’s Jesus is King.
Dustin Laurenzi's Snaketime finds a new approach to tradition.
Tool's first album in 13 years proves nothing is worse than a band that’s become a convincing re-enactment of itself.
Dug in dense gloom since the death of David Berman (Silver Jews, Purple Mountains) earlier this month.
More songs from my brother with his ears chafed from the pavement.
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.
It's some of the most spiritual music ever recorded.
Then they came for Morrissey.
There's not liable to be a better record this year.
From the official soundtrack of Uncut Gems (in theaters now).
The late singer on The John Davidson Show in early 1970.
From the 2006 album A Bunch of Herbs.
On live TV in 1960, performing their two most popular songs (the latter of which they wrote themselves).
Miss Anthropocene is out February 21 via 4AD.
Duane Allman plays a swampy slide behind Aretha's powerful version of "The Weight."
From the Shadows and Light concert.
Second mix from the new multimedia outfit, featuring tracks by Michel Banabila, Anna Homler & Steve Moshier, Adriano Celentano, Charles Amirkhanian, Hayden Right, and more.
From Prism Mirror Lens, their new album on VG+ Records.