This week, Jack White, the more outspoken half of the White Stripes, released his first proper solo effort, Blunderbuss, and it’s not half bad! But stepping out from behind the shadow of an established band can be ...

As hard as we try, it’s almost inevitable that a few albums worthy of our time get left out by year’s end. Sometimes, we don’t even realize until more than a year has passed that, embarrassingly, one of the best albums of the last 18 months or so, somehow, never got covered. Now that, my friends, ...

Saturday is Record Store Day, a celebrated day in which that sacred institution of musical discovery and treasured payday pilgrimages gives us a flood of previously-unreleased and coveted items. We wanted to mark the occasion with a list of sorts, but ...

"History's Greatest Monsters" is a regular evaluation of albums deemed some of the worst in history. We do this not for the sake of schadenfreude, but to try to understand how these reputations were earned. Certainly, there are bound to be pleasant surprises. And certainly, there will be some ...

Few indie rock bands have a career that’s been as influential or prolific as that of Dayton, Ohio’s Guided By Voices. Having recorded and released four full-lengths and many more EPs before ever really being noticed by critics or music-junkies, the Dayton, Ohio rockers combined Beatles-style pop, ...

Debut albums can sometimes be a greater curse than the dreaded sophomore slump. If done right, they can leave a lot to live up to. If done poorly, then there's little incentive for listeners to stick around for the next round. That said, it's interesting how many artists, and well known ones at ...

Summer won’t be here for another couple of months, but this Friday, unofficially, the season might as well begin, because summer festival season is upon us. This weekend kicks off the first of two Coachella weekends (which will be identical, lineup-wise), and from there the festivals will continue ...

If we've reached any conclusion from new music in the last three months, it's that 2012 is turning out to be the dreamiest. Several of our favorites from 2012 thus far – Frankie Rose's Interstellar, Chromatics' ...

April Fool's Day is around the corner, and what better way to celebrate this holy day of pranksterism with a list composed entirely of fictional (or partially fictional) stories of rock 'n' roll debauchery, terror, hilarity and misdeeds. We trust most of our readers have heard some variation of ...

To a certain degree, everyone who jumps into the field of music journalism does so because of a passionate hunger for hearing something new and exciting. When it comes to finding that something new and exciting, the deeper one digs into new sounds and unheard styles, the more apparent it ...