Lupe Fiasco’s third studio album hits shelves with a lot of heavy baggage. As the Chicago rapper tried out new concepts (a triple album, for instance) and...
Vic Chesnutt wasn’t simply one of the best songwriters of his generation; he was also one of the most idiosyncratic. The Georgia native dreamed up compositions...
Not long ago, Grinderman would have been redundant. Nick Cave’s side project covers much of the same boisterous and bawdy terrain that the Birthday Party covered...
It’s impossible to talk about Wavves without addressing the band’s troubles. In May 2009, after releasing a debut album that met with grassroots support and critical high-fives,...
It’s been eleven years since Slim Shady cleared his throat on what was essentially Eminem’s debut single, “My Name Is…” and asked, “Hey, kids do you...
Ty Segall doesn’t write songs. He scrawls them. Favoring purposefully sloppy performances captured in grainy garage lo-fi, the San Francisco musician flaunts his influences, as if he’s...