Arcadia Alison Krauss and Union Station Down the Road 28 March 2025 Alison Krauss hasn’t recorded with Union Station in 14 years—since Barack Obama’s first term, as Rolling Stone’s David Browne noted in his article announcing the act’s latest album, Arcadia. During this time, a lot has changed, including the departure of key Union Station

In 2005, it would have been impossible for Will Sheff to believe that Black Sheep Boy would be Okkervil River’s high-water mark. He was on such a creative streak that Black Sheep Boy Appendix, released the following year, actually included a few songs (“No Key, No Plan”, “Another Radio Song”) that rivaled anything on the

Everything Changes Everything Stays the Same The Loft Tapete 14 March 2025 Maybe it was the intense competition of the times or the vagaries of youth, but a fair number of British indie bands in the 1980s released a single or two, garnered acclaim from the music press, and then split up before even releasing

Jingle Jangle Morning (The 1960s U.S. Folk Rock Explosion) Various Artists Cherry Red 21 March 2025 Most songs on the three-CD anthology of American folk rock from the 1960s (Jingle Jangle Morning) are not surprising selections. As its title suggests, the collection includes the Byrds‘ “Mr. Tambourine Man” and other well-known hits by Simon and

For the video to accompany the track “9°C”, from Loraine James’ second release under the Whatever the Weather moniker, the artist focuses on Japan, featuring grainy shots of Tokyo’s infamous Shibuya crossing, apartment buildings, scenes of a plane taking off from a sun glare-filled window seat with a shot showing the enormity of Tokyo from

Yoko Ono was one of the 20th Century’s most polarizing figures— an edge-cutting conceptual artist maligned for capturing the heart of the Beatles’ John Lennon and daring to establish a musical union with him.With the publication of veteran author David Sheff’s new biography, Yoko, we are fully enlightened about her extraordinary life journey, all 92

If you find yourself wondering at any point during Alex Scharfman’s Grand-Guignol fantasy satire Death of a Unicorn, “Wait, how come there are unicorns in the Canadian Rockies which nobody has seen before?” then this is not the film for you. However, if some part of you is thinking, “I hope those vile ultra-wealthy despoilers

Refrains of the Day, Vol. 2 Pidgins Lexical Records 4 April 2025 In 2023, the Mexico City-based duo Pidgins released Refrains of the Day, Vol. 1, with a mission to “transform the oral and rhythmic methods of traditional trance rituals by phasing metric, melodic, and rhetorical phrases”.Furthermore, by using the clichés of corporate jargon as

Black Country New Road immediately won over the hearts of many a music critic with For the First Time, an angular album from a band that dazzled us with their unexpected fluency in both the language of jagged post-punk and the idiosyncratic, colorful chatter of free jazz. If their debut didn’t nab you, well, 2022’s

Sam Wilkes is not on TikTok, and that’s OK. Shortly before speaking to the Los Angeles-based bassist and avant-jazz figurehead, I did a quick search on the video-sharing app to see what people were posting about him, and outside of his records coming up on lists of recommendations for chilled-out records, one guy was out