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...
Is it folk? Is it rock? Stop—you’re both right. O Ye Devastator, the latest album from Denton, TX, troubadour Doug Burr, is a study in how people...
Tribute albums can be tricky little divas. Often, these ragamuffin collections lack a certain cohesion, and are generally void of the indefinable mojo that made the...
Nine years is a considerable stretch of time by most standards. In pop music, that span might as well be an eternity. It’s been an eternity since...
After indulging in a prog-rock period for its past couple of albums, indie veterans The Decemberists return to folk-country sensibilities on The King is Dead, a pleasant and capably...
Taylor Swift’s much anticipated sophomore album finds her at a point of transition, on the brink of two very different and conflicting musical directions—one of which...