Believe it or not, Tricky's never been much of a minimalist. Yes, his soundscapes are hushed and rife with negative space, but boy are they…

"I write most of my music now in the airplane." So says the dude grinning across from me on a July afternoon at…

Part protest, and part indulgence in what they're protesting, Maddie & Tae's summer 2014 debut provocation, "Girl in a Country Song," gently poked fun at…

I have never seen a Montana license plate until today. We’re in the parking "lot" of Legend Valley, a grassy farmland in Thornville, Ohio, a…

No one knows what to expect from such a high-profile album by not just a transgender rock'n'roller, but an established (maybe even mainstream!) rock'n'roller transitioning…

Despite the love songs, the tempered tempos, and the "You say 'cluster' / I say 'fuck'!" call-and-response joke, the Dismemberment Plan's first album in 12…

On Saturday, Against Me! singer Laura Jane Grace kicked off a solo mini-tour with an hour-long acoustic jaunt at Philadelphia's MilkBoy. Though she yowled "Even…

Without Lollapalooza, it feels like we'd be missing an entire generation — a huge void between The Simpsons and the Gathering of the Juggalos. The…

Steve Gunn's guitar playing is undoubtedly original, though his languorous fingerpicking style brings up John Fahey comparisons, for sure, not to mention Nick Drake. Intricacy…

We used to dread our favorite bands reuniting, which says a lot about either diminishing returns or our faith in the people we decide are…

How many bands' outtakes could serve as a primer? Rkives is not the sorely nonexistent sixth Rilo Kiley album, unfortunately, but as a career-spanning loose-ends…

If, a couple years back, you expected the word "chillwave" to be long gone by 2013, well, some people in 1983 thought rap was a…

Just because something embodies the laid-back vibes of "weed rap" doesn't mean it can't be meaty. Curren$y is loving and meditative as he maintains a…

Doesn't the notion of a Ben Gibbard solo album seem quaint? Already, his best-known work is a side project, the Postal Service, which produced the…

"Don't you want to play with the big boys?" Corin Tucker teases on the wonderfully titled "Summer Jams." Translation: Get on her level. With PJ…