Keith Harris

Lydia Loveless makes unreasonable demands, and she damn well knows it. This 23-year-old Ohioan country-punk singer does a line at a party and decides to…

You can maybe stay cool into your forties, but don't bet on it. The hippest in-jokes wither into the limpest dad jokes, and the culprit's…

Fuck yeah, we still need indie-rock bands! As a nation of independent contractors, invoicing each work-for-hire project as if it were our last, we naturally…

This is the album that Justin Timberlake is too famous to make in 2013, its musical scope and track lengths modest, its sexual appetite and…

Universally acknowledged as country music's greatest singer as well as its most enigmatic n'er-do-well, George Glenn Jones was born in Saratoga, Texas, in 1931, and…

A pimp can have a midlife crisis too, you know. And yet, while Calvin Broadus may be married happily with three kids, he's already led…

Nobody much asks what the Strokes will do next anymore. ("No search results found for 'What will the Strokes do next?'" Evidence!) So when "One…

When Yo La Tengo release their next album three years or so from now, no reviewer will think to mention Sonic Youth. Despite a shared…

Maybe you've heard that Transcendental Youth features horns on a few songs, and maybe you've wondered why you should care. After all, it's been 10…

We should’ve heard the last of Adam Young, a.k.a., Owl City. Back in 2009, "Fireflies" simpered virally across America, and annoyed grown-ups wished 1,000 slugs…

The Apples in Stereo are among the least ridiculously named bands in the Elephant 6 collective, a loose aggregate of likeminded indie-poppers that formed in…

Best known for his distinctive takes on "My Funny Valentine," which he first recorded as a member of the Gerry Mulligan Quartet, this white heartthrob…

Though named for red ball organ virtuoso Max Rebo (born Siiruulian Phantele on the planet Orto), this legendary combo was actually controlled behind the scenes…

This Dutch avant-garde composer's fascination with non-traditional harmonies and scales led him to become a pioneer of electronic music. Badings' earliest work expanded the compositional…

In this 1964 Japanese horror film, a stark black-and-white classic, a woman and her daughter-in-law make a living by murdering wayward samurai and selling their…