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Stephen Becker has acquired some talented friends in the few on-and-off decades since he launched Le Concorde, his artfully cerebral

Titles are often clues to an artist’s intentions, but Words Were Coming Out Our Ears may be more of a

Don’t let the name fool you. Atlanta’s Elijah Johnston is no rustic, deconstructed roots crooner. He’s a craftsman and a

As autobiographies go, David Lowery’s Fathers, Sons And Brothers (Cooking Vinyl) is an outlier. It’s more of a memoir—and even

As a singer and a songwriter, Thalia Zedek is howler with an uncanny grasp of subtlety and dynamics, bringing unconventional

Rorey describes “Nobody’s Fault But My Own” as a love letter to herself. Though you might not get that impression

A product of rural Manitoba, sundayclub’s Courtney Carmichael and Nikki St.Pierre have found their creative mojo in Winnipeg, the province’s

For Oliver Wood, detachment is the key to maintaining a semblance of sanity in this crazy life. “The trick is

Molly Joyce couldn’t be any more transparent about her disability—to the point where surgical records double as lyrics on her

Say what you might about octogenarian acts—Rod Stewart, Paul Simon, Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, Bob Dylan, Pete Townshend, Roger Daltrey,

Imaginary People’s Dylan Von Wagner takes his beef with society to another level on Alibi. His disdain for our current

Civic had little more than purity of the Aussie punk aesthetic in mind when it made 2023’s Taken By Force.

This year’s Governors Ball delivered an electrifying weekend of diverse genres, uniting fans of hip hop, indie rock, pop, soul

Suzanne Vega at World Cafe Live, Philadelphia, Photos by Chris Sikich.

If, as mythos has it, the best band in the world on any given night is playing in some local

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

The members of Kula Shaker were the misaligned weirdos of the ’90s Britpop wave. Perhaps even weirder, the London band

In a radical move (for those who know him, at least), Scott McCaughey was dead set on keeping the tambourine

Though he’s since dedicated the song to both parents, Pete Droge originally wrote “You Called Me Kid” for his father

For Boshra AlSaadi, the decision to procreate hasn’t been an easy one—and that made “Homo Sapiens” a tough song to

We’ve all been waiting for someone to pick apart Titanic’s leading man in song, yes? Dead Tooth’s Zach Ellis is

Grace Jones and Janelle Monáe at BRIC Celebrate Brooklyn! Festival, Prospect Park, Brooklyn, N.Y. Photos by Wes Orshoski.

Diagnosed with OCD, Rebecca Schiffman has struggled with “moral perfectionism” for much of her life. She brings those inner demons