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There’s a funny, odd scene in an episode of Gilmore Girls where Rory assures her…
Sixteen albums—14 new albums and two reissues—you have to hear this month.
Metal is dark. There are perhaps other qualities we can attribute across the board to…
Tracing a long lineage from Sara Carter to Kacey Musgraves.
An innovative scene that gave rise to a very weird myth.
The sinister centerpiece of 1999’s ‘Mule Variation’ is a bait and switch.
A rejected film score with a reputation that precedes it.
An exploration of joy and faith after trauma through an act of unabashed prog.
Alt-country, “whatever that is,” is a lot harder to pin down than it might seem on the surface.
Thirteen albums that made the month, plus two great ones we missed from the past few.
The lesson? Never pick up hitchhikers.
A six-pack of metal records that provide much-needed primal scream therapy.
Dense sludge, dazzling technical death metal, and some innovative prog metal weirdness from Brazil.
A song response to the most notorious fan the duo ever had.
America always manages to bury the Black people that serve it the most. It’s just…
A rock ‘n’ roll song with a killer riff and a sinister backstory.