A mini-concept LP, Trans Canada Highway follows the Scottish brothers (who spent time in Canada) as they trek from St. John's, Newfoundland, to Victoria, B.C., in under a half-hour.
The stars have finally aligned and the triple-tailed comet has reappeared. Keep your ears to the skies for another momentous encounter with Bad Books III.
In the late '70s, The Avengers established themselves as one of the US's preeminent punk bands. Fusing incisive guitar hooks, explosive rhythms and adolescent venom, the group forged some of the most in-your-face songs of the era.
It was inevitable that Alex Turner would incorporate the loungey swagger of his busman's holiday the Last Shadow Puppets into his main gig of the Arctic Monkeys, yet the soft louche touch of Tranquility Base Hotel + Casino comes as something of a shock.
The closeness of Natalie Mering's 3rd album conceals it's aspirations to the outside, to the "Earth" of it's title. These are not typical love songs or protest songs of folk before; they are painful, poignant riddles that celebrate the ambiguity of love.
Certain concerts create a legend as soon as the final note ceases to ring. Nirvana's headlining appearance at the 1992 Reading Festival is one of these shows, a concert that arrived at precisely the right moment and stands as testament to a band at the pe
Sufjan Stevens mixes autobiography, religious fantasy, and regional history to create folk songs of grand proportions. A preoccupation with epic concepts has motivated two state records (Michigan & Illinois) and an electronic album for the animals of the
Sorry You Couldn't Make It is the long awaited "country album" from the legendary Swamp Dogg, a.k.a. soul and R&B singer-songwriter Jerry Williams Jr.. Recorded in Nashville, featuring John Prine, Justin Vernon, Jenny Lewis, and others.
History will undoubtedly enshrine this disc as a watershed the likes of which may never truly be appreciated. Giant Steps bore the double-edged sword of furthering the cause of the music as well as delivering it to an increasingly mainstream audience.
Meat Loaf’s Bat Out of Hell sounded unlike any other modern rock record when it was released in 1977 on Cleveland International/Epic Records. The result of a collaboration between composer Jim Steinman, Meat Loaf, and producer Todd Rundgren, Bat Out of He
"While King of California was often lumped in with the then-fashionable unplugged craze, in retrospect it was the album where Dave Alvin's abilities as a performer began to catch up with his gifts as a songwriter..." --Mark Deming
AJJ refine their sound with some of their best songwriting to date, all while trying to make some semblance of sense of the terrible times we live in. - Sean Craig, Mixed Frequencies
Total Clarity compiles unreleased demos and other tracks (as well as some of the leaked/stolen demos) that were eventually recorded for the group's 2005 effort, Searching For A Former Clarity.
Canadian electro-pop band Young Empires blend the quirky, trebly sounds of Passion Pit with the radio-friendly, dance-oriented pop of Foster the People on their long-awaited debut full-length, The Gates.
Brother Ali's second album, which dropped in 2003, is perhaps his best and his first to be available on vinyl. Socially conscious hip hop with strong roots in the 90s.
Double live album to accompany the film. A musical road movie dipped in turpentine, Chunky Shrapnel is a point of view / on stage experience from the perspective of King Gizzard and The Lizard Wizard.
When considering any great work of art, be it a painting, a novel, or a piece of music, it’s natural to wonder what might have inspired it: ‘the story behind the song’. Mark Lanegan’s new album, Straight Songs Of Sorrow, flips that equation.
