Mar 11, 2020 By Matt Conner Web Exclusive

Endless Dream is the album. Endless well is the assumed inspiration. More

Mar 10, 2020 By Joshua M. Miller (As Told To) Issue #66 - My Favorite Album - Angel Olsen and Sleater-Kinney

When "Weird Al" Yankovic attended Elton John's Goodbye Yellow Brick Road farewell tour last year at the Los Angeles Forum, it felt like things had come full circle. More

Mar 09, 2020 By Kyle Mullin

Like a droll nightmare following a binge of one too many Black Mirror episodes, Dan Bejar's lyrics will send chills up your spine and leave your lips in a rueful grin. More

Mar 06, 2020 By Kyle Mullin Web Exclusive

Her last album, 2018's In a Poem Unlimited, was hailed as a politicized pop masterpiece thanks to lyrics that decried drone strikes and condoned violent vengeance for abused women. More

Mar 05, 2020 By Jordan J. Michael Web Exclusive

Periodically hitting a vaporizer while transferring drum stems to a hard drive at an Airbnb in Nanaimo, British Columbia, Wolf Parade's Dan Boeckner is celebrating album release day. More

Mar 04, 2020 By Charles Steinberg (As Told To) Issue #66 - My Favorite Album - Angel Olsen and Sleater-Kinney

Listening to albums all the way through wasn't a necessity with my generation but I listen to full albums now more than I ever have. I think maybe because now I make albums and I think of them as full albums a little bit more each time. I'm also more interested in seeing how other artists do that. More

Mar 03, 2020 By Matt Fink (As Told To) Issue #66 - My Favorite Album - Angel Olsen and Sleater-Kinney

I was living in Portland in '85-'86, and I wouldn't say I was an apprentice speed freak, because I wasn't on speed all of the time, but I was quite often taking really hard speed-crystal meth. More

Mar 02, 2020 By Max Pilley (As Told To) Issue #66 - My Favorite Album - Angel Olsen and Sleater-Kinney

This album seemed relevant because of my new record, and me thinking about the kind of stuff that was released when I was a teenager and impressionable. More

Feb 28, 2020 By Matt Connor Web Exclusive

"It's gonna be hard to go back." Martin Courtney laughs as he describes the line crossed by Real Estate in the writing and recording of their latest album, The Main Thing. For nearly a decade, the New Jersey-based band have developed their niche of relaxing rock, but an "existential crisis," as Courtney has termed it, pushed the band toward a more thoughtful ethic concerning their craft this time around. More