Category: BEST OF 2016

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,

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