Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds: Chasing Yesterday
Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds Chasing Yesterday (Sour Mash Records Ltd.) Depending on how seriously you take Noel Gallagher’s interviews, the former Oasis mastermind is one of the great heroes or villains More...
Rhiannon Giddens: Tomorrow Is My Turn
Rhiannon Giddens Tomorrow Is My Turn (Nonesuch Records) Rhiannon Giddens is an artist who thrives in the margins. This founding member of The Carolina Chocolate Drops has come into her own with her first solo More...
Imagine Dragons: Smoke + Mirrors
Imagine Dragons Smoke + Mirrors (Interscope Records/KIDinaKORNER) Whatever you think about Imagine Dragons’ sound, you can’t deny that they do their thing rather well. Shouty rock bombast mixes with hip More...
Murder By Death: Big Dark Love
Murder By Death Big Dark Love (Bloodshot Records) Big Dark Love is the perfect title for the seventh LP. Though the band has never sounded as sinister as their name would indicate, vocalist Adam Turla’s delivery More...
Andrew Bird: Echolocations: Canyon
Andrew Bird Echolocations: Canyon (Wegawam Music Co.) Andrew Bird is one of the most dynamic, productive artists working today. Echolocations: Canyon is the beginning of a new music and film project in which More...
Joshua Radin: Onwards and Sideways
Joshua Radin Onwards and Sideways (Glass Bead Music) Joshua Radin’s music provides a perfect soundtrack for emotional moments, particularly falling in love, which is why his tracks so often appear on television More...
Belle and Sebastian: Girls in Peacetime Want to Dance
Belle and Sebastian Girls in Peacetime Want to Dance (Matador Records) If you need any evidence that 2015 is going to be a year for surprising music, then this is it. Belle and Sebastian, those Scottish purveyors More...
Guster: Evermotion
Guster Evermotion (Ocho Mule/Nettwerk Records) Did you know that Guster was still a band? I have to admit that they were never an act that I kept tabs on, but they have continued to keep the alt rock flag held More...
Sleater-Kinney: No Cities to Love
Sleater-Kinney No Cities to Love (Sub Pop Records) To expand on a joke I heard recently, the ‘90s are truly back when gas costs less than two dollars a gallon, Suge Knight has (allegedly) killed someone, and More...
Mark Ronson: Uptown Special
Mark Ronson Uptown Special (RCA Records) Since the beginning of his career, Mark Ronson has been a master of collaboration and nostalgia. Uptown Special relies on an arsenal of distinctive vocalists to carry More...
