Column 252
Shadow of the Horns: Celebrating Controversial Metal Albums
Some of the best metal albums that metalheads love to hate.
The Best Albums of May 2019
Listen to and read about our 12 favorite albums of the past month.
Shadow of the Horns: Five Labels Keeping Metal Interesting in 2019
A high five to five great labels.
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.