

Album Review: U2 - 'Songs of Surrender'
Trading in the large, expansive audio productions their songs typically entail, U2’s “Songs of Surrender” strips the band down to its...


Q&A: Charlotte, N.C.'s The Mystery Plan Releases Moody EP, 'What A Day'
Credit: Daniel Coston The Mystery Plan formed as a duo in 2010, with members Jason Herring and Paul Jensen as the sole producers and...


Podcast - Ep. 14: Matt F Basler (Middle Class Fashion) Interview
Defining Matt F Basler is not easy. The shorthand is that he is a solo artist and the drummer for the St. Louis, Mo. band Middle Class...


Q&A: U.K. Duo Broken Bear Releases New Video for 'Toxic Positivity'
If you aren't familiar yet with the independent British duo Broken Bear, you're forgiven. The alternative rock outfit certainly deserves...


Nashville-Based Singer Alicia Blue Covers Fleetwood Mac's 'Dreams'
Alicia Blue has come a long way since she first performed a folk song at an open-mic night in her home city of Los Angeles in 2017. And I...


Film Review: 'Meet Me in the Bathroom'
That “Meet Me in the Bathroom,” the new film adaptation of Lizzy Goodman’s 2017 nonfiction recollection of the early 2000s New York City...


Concert Review: Echosmith at Delmar Hall
Reaching the top 40 of the Billboard 100 chart is not an easy task; reaching it with two of your first three singles is rarer still. But...


Q&A: Ex-Porcupine Tree Bassist Colin Edwin on New O.R.k. Album, 'Screamnasiam'
It might be tempting to call O.R.k. a supergroup, as two of its members have played in a couple of the biggest groups in the history of...


Album Review: Arctic Monkeys - 'The Car'
Five albums into their career, developing a unifying theory of Arctic Monkeys albums was a relatively simple task. They weaved from...


Album Review: Taylor Swift - 'Midnights'
While 2020's “folklore” and “evermore” were semi-surprise albums, “Midnights” marks a full-blown mass-marketed spectacle the likes of...