rock
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Sleep Well Beast is The National’s most vibrant and engaging set of songs in years.
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Timber Timbre has bounced back from the disappointingly synthetic Sincerely, Future Pollution with “Les Egouts,” a bilingual loosey that brings back the moody noir aesthetic that I find so alluring about the band.
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Death from Above slay with a hard rock-inspired direction on their latest album, Outrage! Is Now.
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Here’s the second single from Mark Kozelek’s upcoming collaborative album with Ben Boye and Jim White, which will apparently contain the Koz’s sixth and seventh discs of 2017. Lyrically, “The Black Butterfly” is a step up from the previously released “House Cat,” with Mark spending the first
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A Deeper Understanding is big on sound, but small on substance.
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Mark Ronson’s flat production doesn’t do any favors for Villains, Queens of the Stone Age’s most mixed bag of tracks to date.
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The latest B-side from Mogwai’s new album Every Country’s Sun finds the Glaswegian post-rockers taking a refreshing turn toward more direct songwriting. “Eternal Panther” is a short, sweet, and to the point noise rock tune in the vein of Dinosaur Jr. (I’m far from the first person
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Grizzly Bear returns from a five-year hibernation with a mirror image of their previous album, Shields.
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King Gizzard makes an album with Mild High Club.
