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“From Above” is just another silly love song. And Ebed “Bed” Moreno seems OK with that. “Love is such a

A lot of rock ’n’ roll backstories are more matter of fact than glamorous. Case in point: The Claudettes’ Johnny

For all the reverence surrounding the blues, it too often gets treated like something frozen in time. But the recent

Raised on four generations of family land in western North Carolina, Nathan Evans Fox grew up immersed in NASCAR culture.

For more than three decades, Laurelyn Dossett has quietly established herself as one of the most respected songwriting voices in

Montreal’s Nora Kelly doesn’t just flirt with alt-country conventions on the new So Wrong For So Long (Mint)—she dismantles them,

There’s a particular brand of heartbreak that’s impossible to explain because, technically, nothing really happened. On “So Close,” Kim McClay

The connection between Bill Santen and Evan Mui feels like a creative conversation that began long before the songs arrived.

Among the many hidden treasures of Los Angeles’ DIY underground, Young Lovers have found a sustainable place for themselves through

On ITERAE, American musician/engineer Joseph Branciforte and Belgian Fender Rhodes player Jozef Dumoulin operate in the spaces in between. Each

The latest single from Tory Silver is equal parts garage/rock burner and exposed confessional, barreling forward on blown-out riffs as

On the eve of Philly’s primary election, Lucinda Williams engaged in some masterful world-building at Union Transfer, delivering a perfectly

Mike D at Xanadu Roller Arts, Brooklyn, N.Y. Photos by Wes Orshoski.

Every week, we’ll be posting a new illustration by David Lester. The Mecca Normal guitarist is visually documenting people, places

MAGNET’s Mitch Myers says all movie adaptations are equal, but some movie adaptations are more equal than others. He also

Though they’ve always lived on separate coasts and occupied different scenes, Mike Watt has always held J Mascis in high

For better or worse, Romeo Void will always be associated with the early days of MTV, where the film-noirish video

Ethan Gold’s life story has taken on a mythic hue. He was raised in San Francisco by his mother, Melissa

EG Vines has proven himself particularly adept at pairing sharp hooks with emotional candor. His latest single, however, funnels that

For nearly a decade, Wild Up has approached the music of Julius Eastman as something volatile, alive and worthy of

The Yea-Ming And The Rumours of a few years ago fed off the frantic motion of transition. Lately, though, the

At its core, Lisa Molinaro’s latest single is about stagnation—those stretches of time where momentum evaporates, change feels just out