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Shadow of the Horns: Searching for the Next Big Metal Band
Who will be the next stadium-filling metal band?
Treble Roundtable: Our Favorite Record Stores (and what we bought there)
A Record Store Day roundtable!
Pick Your Poison: Fiona Apple’s ‘Tidal’ vs. ‘The Idler Wheel’
A side-by-side look at the singer/songwriter's two most celebrated albums.
Shadow of the Horns: Kill Yr Idols
We should only blame ourselves for littering the metal canon with assholes.
Treble Roundtable: Valentine’s Day Mixtapes
The soundtracks to our courtships, when songs say more than words ever could.
Pick Your Poison: Junior Kimbrough vs. R.L. Burnside
A look at two titans of the Hill Country Blues.
Remake/Remodel: Redrawing the map to Anderson .Paak’s ‘Oxnard’
Making some tweaks to a good album that fell short of its potential.
Treble Roundtable: The Best Old Music We Discovered in 2018
The archival releases that filled in the gaps in 2018.
Pick Your Poison: Jim O’Rourke’s Eureka vs. Insignificance
The idiosyncratic artist and producer's two "pop" records, side by side.
Pick Your Poison: Bob Dylan vs. John Prine in the ’70s
This inaugural edition of our new column pits one giant of folk-rock against another.
Remake/Remodel: Raiding the vault to build Prince’s ‘Purple Rain Part Two’
Adding a follow-up with eight more songs to a perfect pop moment.
Shadow of the Horns: The underappreciated art of the metal song
You won't see a lot of Best Metal Songs lists this year, and that's kind of a bummer.
Treble Roundtable: Halloween party essentials
We discuss the songs we always queue up on All Hallow's Eve.
Remake/Remodel: Stitching up Ministry’s ‘With Sympathy’
Redeeming the good name of a much-slandered synth-pop record.