Category: BEST OF 2016

GOAT has been trying to convince us that the tiny hamlet from which it hails is home to an ages-old

It’s impossible to tell how the death of Nick Cave’s son, Arthur, during the recording of Skeleton Tree shaped its

We don’t need another new Bob Dylan, Nobel laureate notwithstanding. But we sure can welcome a new Bob Pollard. Although

Lucinda Williams has been making music for nearly four decades. The Ghosts Of Highway 20, her 12th studio album, is

“Play it loud/Play it fast/Play me something that will always last,” growls lead singer James Alex on “Future Mixtape For

Consider, if you will, two bands from Massachusetts that formed in the mid-’80s, broke up for more than a decade,

It’s been an annus horribilis of Nasty Women and Bad Hombres, aggressive groping and building a wall and making them

For Mitski Miyawaki, happiness is neither a self-evident truth nor an unalienable right, instead a boorish lout who eats her

Mangy Love is a slippery album, by turns didactic and Dada-esque, sensitive and pissed-off, somber and humorous. Cass McCombs has

Even after a five-year wait between albums, it’s weirdly easy to take Radiohead for granted. Maybe it’s a slight tempering of

Angel Olsen has one of those voices. She can belt her songs out, but her control is excellent. This is

If Happy Mondays were Antipodean rather than Mancunian and plied their wares using turntables and samplers rather than spaced-out guitars,

Justin Vernon is widely beloved for constructing heartfelt pastorals, but on 22, A Million, the artist radically altered the blueprint.

Parquet Courts are the nation’s finest indie-rock band by a very old-guard measure. They churn out quality releases at the

In food-and-wine pairings, you either go with (congruent) or against (complementary). The same can be said of duos, and Paul

“Will the earthquakes shake our cottage to the ground?/Hear the silence, there’ll be no one left around,” snarls Bob Mould

Wilco’s Star Wars wasn’t just MAGNET’s 2015 album of the year; it was also a surprising soft reboot. After a