Lucy Dacus Shows How We Must Learn From Our Mistakes on ‘Historian’
Lucy Dacus is a personal historian on her sophomore record, and It's all wrapped in a slow simmering yet fiery package.
Christopher Laird
Christopher Laird is a teacher and a writer from Alton, Illinois. His hobbies include writing and teaching and playing floor hockey. Find him on Twitter: @SeaLairdPop
Haley Heynderickx’s ‘I Need to Start a Garden’ Addresses This Sad World with Absurdity
Throughout I Need to Start a Garden, Haley Heynderickx speaks of improvement. She strives to be good, but she's also honest about it all.
Nap Eyes’ New Album ‘I’m Bad Now’ Takes a Deep Look at Life
Nap Eyes are more brain than brawn, more thinkers than thumpers. All this makes the title of Nap Eyes' newest record, I'm Bad Now, an interesting choice.
Superchunk’s ‘What a Time to Be Alive’ Proves Music Is Powerful in Difficult Times
Superchunk were the sleeping giants of indie rock. This time the giant has bared its teeth.
The Wombats Warn That ‘Beautiful People Will Ruin Your Life’
The Wombats, a UK pop-rock band seemingly obsessed with parties and pills, don't seem the sort ready for a solemn break-up record, but Beautiful People Will Ruin Your Life is just that, kind of.
Anna Burch’s ‘Quit the Curse’ Is a Break-up Album with an Unexpected Twist
Anna Burch's debut full-length Quit the Curse is a grand tour through mediocre romantic attachments.
The Weirdos Are the Heroes in This Brief History of Electronic Music
Live Wires rips open the definition of 'electronic' to tell the story of the how those tapes and wires and transistors came to transform music into what we take for granted today.
John Hodgman’s ‘Vacationland’ Is Comfortably Fearless
With Vacationland John Hodgman moves away from comedy and tries a new approach: humble reality.
Half Japanese Asks “Why Not?” on New Album
Why not shoot for whatever lofty goal you have in mind? It's an old cliché worn to a thread, but if there is a musician that really means it, it's Jad Fair.
Americana’s Grace Basement Hangs Out at ‘Mississippi Nights’
Grace Basement's Mississippi Nights gets its title from a much loved yet long-defunct venue that was torn down and turned into a casino parking lot.
Baths: Romaplasm
Electronic artist Baths changes up his focus on Romaplasm, which is about pleasures and fantasies and the past.
Bibio: Phantom Brickworks
The new Bibio album, Phantom Brickworks, takes a turn towards ambient and succeeds.