In a shimmering slice of indie pop, Nandi Rose Plunkett reflects on the idea that our geography cannot change our history; we carry our demons with us wherever we go.
Wooden Wand's new album, Clipper Ship, flips James Toth's songwriting process: music first, lyrics second. It's produced genteel, impressionistic music that can stand on its own.
Rock historian missed the "Prefab Four" the first time they came along. Listening now, he finds that the Monkees' best songs have held up, mostly because they used top-notch songwriting talent.
Naomi Yang (Galaxie 500, Damon & Naomi) directs a video for the Beijing husband-and-wife duo's languid and blissfully noisy shoegaze song about finding connection in isolation.
Not long after Paloma Gil and Lou Hayat returned home to Paris, the Bataclan theater was attacked. In the video, a dancer improvises to the shimmering "Seven Days" in an empty warehouse.
Montreal composer Rebecca Foon, known for her work in Esmerine and Thee Silver Mt. Zion Orchestra, layers somber cello loops in a meditation on climate change.
Mal Devisa and JD AKA ThrashKitten join the Chicago multi-instrumentalist for the extraterrestrial "dOn't turn me Off," a song dripping with positivity.
Though Motown's hits were recorded in a studio, newly discovered live recordings of session guitarist Dennis Coffey make the case that the label's iconic sound was forged in Detroit's nightclub scene.
Trombonist Ray Anderson, bassist Mark Helias and drummer Gerry Hemingway first played together as a trio in 1977. Critic Kevin Whitehead says their new double album proves they can still deliver.