Category: BEST OF 2016

Angel Olsen has one of those voices. She can belt her songs out, but her control is excellent. This is

If Happy Mondays were Antipodean rather than Mancunian and plied their wares using turntables and samplers rather than spaced-out guitars,

Justin Vernon is widely beloved for constructing heartfelt pastorals, but on 22, A Million, the artist radically altered the blueprint.

Parquet Courts are the nation’s finest indie-rock band by a very old-guard measure. They churn out quality releases at the

In food-and-wine pairings, you either go with (congruent) or against (complementary). The same can be said of duos, and Paul

“Will the earthquakes shake our cottage to the ground?/Hear the silence, there’ll be no one left around,” snarls Bob Mould

Wilco’s Star Wars wasn’t just MAGNET’s 2015 album of the year; it was also a surprising soft reboot. After a

Nada Surf songwriter Matthew Caws tends to wear his heart on his sleeve, and relationships remain a recurring theme on

Beth Wawerna wrote the songs on Get Off during one of the most trying periods of her life. She was

2016 was a good year for protest records, and none was more bitter or more beautiful than Hopelessness. It’s a

It’s tempting to view this Flock Of Dimes release party as the genre-neutral ground where Jenn Wasner’s worlds collide: the