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Some albums take longer than others to gestate. Then there’s Lampshade Earthquake Microphone (Having Fun/We Are Busy Bodies), which began

“Tabula Rasa” is Latin for “blank slate”—though the inspiration behind the song is anything but optimistic. Concussa’s Luke Lotardo began

What’s it like being one of a gazillion indie bands in an increasingly inhospitable music business? The Hails take that

Something Dylan Von Wagner encountered at an exhibition became the starting point for “All The Glitter,” a song about the

Matt Pond has spent much of his career finding the extraordinary in the ordinary. On Permanent Change Part 1 (Sonder

The Leaving Kind (Cloverdale) is the sound of an artist taking stock of a youngish career that’s already gained considerable

Bleu has contributed to gold- and platinum-selling records and worked with everyone from Selena Gomez and Demi Lovato to the

How have certain words denoting means of food preparation become so connected with altered states of consciousness? Perhaps it’s all

It kicks off with the misadventures of a hungover caveman in prehistoric France and ends somewhere in the dregs of

Every week, we’ll be posting a new illustration by David Lester. The Mecca Normal guitarist is visually documenting people, places

A restless preoccupation with the human condition runs throughout Hippies, Thugs And Heroes (New West). But that’s built into any

With “We’re All Dead,” Kramies Windt has devised a dichotomous Halloween Eve ditty that celebrates both mortality and the best

After 29 years of marriage, Miko Marks found herself facing an unfamiliar future. But somewhere amid the uncertainty, there was

When Jet Black Berries’ Sundown On Venus first appeared in 1985, the album embodied a particularly potent collision of punk,

Graham Hill’s “Monster In My Head” was inspired by a late-night conversation with his son. “He was having trouble falling

When Corin Tucker and Tracy Sawyer kickstarted Heavens To Betsy in Olympia, Wash., in 1991, the two were in their

Satoshi Nakamoto is a name that’s confounded cryptocurrency enthusiasts, journalists and conspiracy theorists for years. In January 2009, Bitcoin’s elusive

Angie Goeke has spent countless hours watching true-crime documentaries—to the point where she figures she’s accumulated her fair share of

Mary Gauthier knows something about reckonings. She’s experienced a few herself, most consequentially when a drunk-driving arrest prompted her to

“‘You Remain’ is a song about grief—about how you carry that feeling of loss with you every single day,” says

Though it’s what he does, Josh Rouse wasn’t entirely bent on making another album. “After 14 years working with Yep

“Traditional” is a relative concept when it comes to Roger Clark Miller. As the guitarist, vocalist and co-leader of Mission

For all its carefully constructed textures, The Lodge In Miller County (Easy Does It) retains the intimacy of a batch