Most people think of Beck’s Guero when they hear “Black Tambourine,” but Black Tambourine was a band long before a song, and a musical anomaly at that. The four-piece of Pam Berry, Brian Nelson, Archie Moore and Michael Schulman formed in the greater Washington, D.C. area in 1989, recorded a total of 10 original songs, played four live shows and then […]
Read More
Hot Fuss thrust Brandon Flowers and his band to the front of popular music when it came out in 2004.
Read More
Neko Case’s Furnace Room Lullaby displays a convincing character portrait with flaws, if powerfully listenable ones.
Read More
The number of skippable tracks on 69 Love Songs is close to none.
Read More
Yankee Hotel Foxtrot doesn’t require emotional investment, it just gets it.
Read More
Not only is this record a right of passage in the collection of jazz musicians, the Smithsonian Institution considers its manuscript an American national treasure.
Read More
The approach of the record was more “natural” and organic from beginning to end.
Read More
He was a gangster-turned-artist who still had a chip on his shoulder.
Read More
The elegiac Pink Moon is still highly regarded as Drake’s greatest work.
Read More
When the Pawn fixes the right mixture of self-hate, self-pity and vicious snarl.
Read More
The untimely passing of vocalist Ian Curtis led to this career-defining record.
Read More
Here’s to an album that embodies American rock at its finest, before catchy pop flooded the airways and musicianship could suffice with electronic machines.
Read More
