Just shy of a decade ago, Damon McMahon—the singular lifeblood of Amen Dunes—began releasing his beguiling music. On the 2009 Locust Records LP DIA, an…
In the 25 years since her Grammy-nominated debut album Plantation Lullabies, Meshell Ndegeocello has traveled quite the musical road with a blend of funk, soul, and…
Few words describe Kim Deal’s songwriting and delivery of emotion better than "terse." In the Pixies and a series of Breeders albums she presented herself…
Almost a year since its release, A Crow Looked at Me remains a singular crucible. Bluntly diaristic and relatively artless, Phil Elverum’s requiem for the…
"Oh, Jens," the English singer-songwriter Tracey Thorn sighed, with gentle impatience, on her 2010 insta-classic "Oh, the Divorces!", a delectable little gallery of estrangements. "Oh,…
On his debut studio album, last year's Teenage Emotions, the then-teenaged Lil Yachty grappled with criticism by trying to prove he was something people said he…
On previous albums New Moon and Tomorrow's Hits, The Men were coming to your town to help you party down, even as their reputation as unpredictable shapeshifters was…
To find vocals in the last eight years of Oneida’s studio work, feed the Brooklyn quintet’s uncompromising rock’n’ruin through a colander. Early on, the band’s…
