Category: BEST OF 2016

MAGNET’s Andrew Earles picks the best metal releases of the year 1 Funeral Moth Transience (Weird Truth) 2 The Body No One

MAGNET’s A.D. Amorosi picks the best reissues of the year 1 Ray Charles The Atlantic Years In Mono (Rhino/Atlantic) 2

We caught up with Lucy Dacus just after she had returned from a short U.K. tour and almost exactly a

25. Flock Of Dimes | If You See Me, Say Yes (Partisan) It’s tempting to view this Flock Of Dimes

Lucy Dacus had an unfair advantage in getting our attention this year: Her debut album, No Burden, came out twice,

Given the tragic circumstances, David Bowie could’ve uncorked a mediocre sendoff, and it would’ve likely been met with sympathetic ears.

How could any one-off supergroup ever aspire to be more than the sum of its parts, even one that combines

While it could serve beautifully to soundtrack any number of settings and situations, the genre-straddling Nashville guitarist’s latest opus is

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,