When Bob Dylan released his controversial 1970 album, Self Portrait, writer Greil Marcus griped that he'd “buy an album of Dylan breathing heavily ……
Monday, Nov. 9 If the name Howard Junker sounds at all familiar, it's probably because he edits ZYZZYVA, the reliably good and deliberately provincial…
There's more than a subtle reference to The Band in Maxim Ludwig & the Santa Fe Seven's lonesome folk ballad “To Be With Sweet…
Kurt Vile recently got fired. For the past six years, he operated a forklift at a Philadelphia brewery while moonlighting as a home-recording musician…
Of the myriad genre “revivals” over the past 30 or so years, far more effort has been spent in the garage-rock world trying to…
Unless you're fluent in French, Marianne Dissard's new disc, L'Entredeux, won't mean as much to you as other break-up albums like Bob Dylan's Blood…
If Patti Smith's narration to Dream of Life was simplified into a stanza, it might go something like this: As long as I can…
If Patti Smith's narration to Dream of Life were simplified into a stanza, it might go something like this: “As long as I can…
Bob Dylan's “John Brown” is one of the most moving antiwar songs recorded. The track avoids sloganeering, resonating an anti–Vietnam War sentiment with a…
Oakland's Why? will follow up their latest disc, Alopecia, with a cover song. No, not another tune from the Cure. The band takes on…
