The English Beat Goes On
Dave Wakeling of The English Beat still tours like a man decades younger than he is, and now he’s got a new album to support it. It’s been almost 30 years since Wakeling has sang on a studio Beat …
Dave Wakeling of The English Beat still tours like a man decades younger than he is, and now he’s got a new album to support it. It’s been almost 30 years since Wakeling has sang on a studio Beat …
Something truly magical happens when Amelia Meath (from Sylvan Esso), Molly Erin Sarlé and Alexandra Sauser-Monnig are in the same room, huddled around the same mic, breathing and harmonizing …
This past summer Elvis Costello cancelled a handful of tour dates so that he could recover from cancer surgery. In the same Facebook post where he delivered that news, there was a bright side. …
Candi Staton has earned the right to title her 30th album Unstoppable. Candi grew up poor in Hanceville, Alabama and used her remarkable voice to change her life. As a teen in the 1950s, Candi …
Traditional styles grow differently depending on who cultivates them and where. For two decades, Old Crow Medicine Show has helped make old-timey American music vital for a generation raised on …
The Crossing is the new concept album Alejandro Escovedo wrote with Italian composer Don Antonio and his band. The record tells the story of Diego and Salvo, two immigrant boys, one from Mexico, the …
Nini Fabi and Benny Gebert started dating in Germany when they were 15. Since then, they’ve done a lot together. They moved to New York, got married, and now make music as Haerts. Recently, Nini and …
Michael Trotter had to “literally crawl over rock and… debris from the explosions to get to this piano”. He was serving in Iraq, when his Captain suggested Michael learn to play music to cope with …
Dolly Parton, Devendra Banhart, Flor de Toloache and They Might Be Giants all contributed original songs to a new compilation called 27: The Most Perfect Album. They were invited by Jad Abumrad and …
That’s how the artist behind Christine and the Queens describes herself, although we prefer to think of her as pop music’s bright future. Her evocative and danceable new album Chris explores chaos …