Music & Culture

Early in his career, clarinetist Andy Biskin worked as an assistant to the folklorist Alan Lomax. Biskin's new album features new settings of songs drawn from Lomax's The Folk Songs of North America.

Iron & Wine has been performing the song live since at least 2013, but has just given it its first proper release ahead of the band's upcoming EP, Weed Garden.

When three friends are good at what they do and they're having a lot of fun with each other doing it, we're all in for a good time. That's what this session promises.

The London post-hardcore band finds strength in sisterhood on a new single from its forthcoming EP, The Future is Dark.

Nate Chinen's new book Playing Changes: Jazz for the New Century identifies the key players in the genre's resurgence. Chinen's aim with the book is to get the root of the resurgence.

They are often beloved classics, or works of pure genius. And you never, ever need to hear them again. They are the songs that must be retired.

Collins is no stranger to protest songs. The storied folk singer weighs in on the current immigration debate with a personal, new song.

Sarah Davachi's electro-acoustic compositions seek the corners of quiet with a studious and patient curiosity.

As a kid Tweedy lied about knowing how to play the guitar, but he must have figured it out eventually because he went on to form the bands Uncle Tupelo and Wilco.

In his autobiography, Siren Song, Stein writes about how he started out in the music business as a teen before going on to sign groundbreaking artists like Talking Heads, Madonna, Ice-T and k.d. lang.

Call it psychedelic, call it classic or call it the sound of new Nashville. Liz Cooper and The Stampede is leading the rock pack in Tennessee right now.

On the band's ninth album, Ben Gibbard addresses an array of life's aftermaths, set against propulsive arrangements that know just when to sparkle and sway.