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Modernism (Flatiron) functions as both a companion piece to Chris Stamey’s 2025 LP Anything Is Possible and a love letter

Cento Threeo’s Halfway To Mellowtown (SecondBridge) reconnects Don Cento to his earliest musical language. Across a three-decade career spanning jazz,

Houston-based guitarist Kelly Doyle is one of modern Texas music’s most versatile utility players, working over the years with Robert

Going on a decade now, the Lemon Twigs’ Michael and Brian D’Addario have been goosing their obsessively retro DIY craftsmanship

“The song is a testament to the upward spiral of positivity that becomes possible when friends join together as creative

The rituals of OCD are often the stuff of cliché (e.g., endless hand-washing)—and they’re certainly not funny to the sufferer.

Barrooms have always occupied a special conflicted place in country music. With “Ladies’ Dart Night,” Very Old Morris submits its

LOUD: The Art Of Robert Pollard temporarily dissolves the line dividing art show from live gig. By Matthew CutterPhotos by

Every great heist movie kicks off with the same delusion: one last job. Equal parts noir narrative and existential meditation,

“I spent most of my adult life in groups I felt unknown and unwelcome in,” says Brother Bird’s Caroline Glaser,

“Pinto Vs. Pinto” dates back to pandemic lockdown, when Okay Lindon’s Dustin Smith and a group of friends challenged each

“You’d have to be living under a rock to ignore what’s happening," says Elephant Stone’s Rishi Dhir, who’s made a

Some artists spend decades helping other musicians tell their stories. Others eventually find themselves compelled to tell their own. Glenn

It says something about Jeff Parker’s estimation of the value of the ETA IVtet that Happy Today was made at

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

Longtime contributor Hobart Rowland takes a deep dive into the influential albums championed by the magazine, plus brand-new releases from

In name only, BendreTheGiant is a playful riff on legendary pro wrestler André The Giant, his iconic role in The

Alejandro Rose-Garcia emerged 15 years ago as a sort of one-man-band phenom. After the expansive, full-band scope of 2023’s Movie

While much of Jon22’s work finds its sweet spot somewhere between indie rock, chamber pop and ’70s AOR, “Lips Like

Jake Emissions has been a 20-year fixture on the Indiana punk scene thanks to his stint with Fort Wayne’s Flamingo

On his 10th studio album, Libertyville, Ill.’s favorite son is once again associating with the drifters, dreamers, survivors and overlooked

Built around Sierra Spirit’s crystalline vocals and the atmospheric-yet-intimate production of Grammy winner Dan Wilson (Semisonic, Adele), “Walls” finds the