Most of the time, our Friday release day spotlight falls on artists who fit squarely within the scope of stereotypical “American roots music.” This week, we’re lifting up a handful of albums that deliver the unexpected. While North Carolina’s Chatham […]
Since singer-songwriter Will Sheff began his Okkervil River project in the late ’90s, the band has consistently released exceedingly good albums, from Don’t Fall in Love with Everyone You See (2002, Jagjaguwar) to The Silver Gymnasium (2013, ATO Records). Okkervil […]
It takes a clever bastard to link, in the space of a three-and-a-half-minute song, acts that include Eurotrash footnotes Nena, college-rock pioneers R.E.M., panty-removal soul brothers the Commodores, and MOR survivor Paul Simon. Even more impressive, Okkervil River singer and […]
Although he made records of his own, oddball folkie Tim Hardin was better-known for interpretations of his work recorded by other iconoclasts: Nico, Scott Walker, and especially Bobby Darin, who went Top-10 in 1966 with “If I Were A Carpenter”. […]
The same America that gave us the Beach Boys also gave us Charles Manson, and for every Woodstock there’s an Altamont. Amid the gatefold-sleeved nostalgia for summer breaks, first loves or your first joint is the half-memory of that house […]
The same America that gave us the Beach Boys also gave us Charles Manson, and for every Woodstock there’s an Altamont. Amid the gatefold-sleeved nostalgia for summer breaks, first loves or your first joint is the half-memory of that house […]
