I’m Not a Jimmy Webb fan, but David Samuels’ profile of the songwriter is a winner. What year is it (#504)?
The jazz legend’s late-career session is finally released.
An overdue reassessment of Centipede Hz and the work of the band that followed.
Charli XCX and the summer of Brat in a world on the brink of collapse.
All the good intentions in the world didn't save that project.
The return of German industrial metal icons out of the fog of the pandemic.
Graham Nash was always a lightweight, who never wrote a half-way decent song.
My response to Crispin Sartwell's hit piece on the singer/songwriter.
Seeing Leslie West and "The New Mountain" at Frenchy's in 1981.
Certain directors—Spike Lee, Cameron Crowe, Edgar Wright, Tarantino, Scorsese—inadvertently become like disc jockeys.
Nick Cave, art, and the presence of death.
Previously uncirculated high-quality footage of Nirvana and Elliott Smith performances paradoxically of the present.
Wading through dope sickness, East Village memories unravel as punk rock meets Gen Z.
They come at the sadness from a number of angles.
The Mountain Goats' ode to tweakers.
My music-obsessed brothers and me, negotiating the 1970s, and my music-obsessed mother now, negotiating dementia.
Unexpected encounters with the goddess of love, Led Zeppelin and a fly. Why do certain insects, plants and rock stars seem strange to people?
An interview with Jennifer Blowdryer.
Sade and other sounds for the final journey.
He delivers flowers, but also great commercial country music for this moment.
Frank Zappa and The Mothers of Invention, We’re Only In It For The Money.
An hours worth of early versions of songs from Panda Bear Meets the Grim Reaper and its B-sides.
The band debut "What Would I Want? Sky" just six days after the release of their grand masterpiece Merriweather Post Pavilion.
A superlative funk album from the mid-1970s.
Happy Independence Day! You were at Woodstock, right? Wasn't this neat?
Concert film from the first Centipede Hz tour, including "New Town Burnout," "Brother Sport," "Mercury Man," and more.
Full album by the avant garde supergroup featuring Darin Gray, Thymme Jones, Dylan Posa, and Jim O'Rourke.
The iconic band reunite for their first interview in many years.
The iconic Baltimore band perform at the height of their powers in Los Angeles at The Smell.
Obscure indie pop compilation released exclusively in France.