Robbie Dupree on Chart Success, Breaking the Latin Market, and Yacht Rock
Veteran musician Robbie Dupree is OK with you calling his music yacht rock. After all, he says, it's not the only trick up his sleeve.
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Mark Deutrom Celebrates 20 Years of the Silent Treatment (album stream + interview)
Tracked during what became a permanent break from his role in the Melvins, Mark Deutrom's The Silent Treatment has had a long and circuitous path but it's now ready to be received by what might be its widest audience yet.
‘The Ru-Jac Records Story’ Is Like Some Alternate-Universe Stax/Volt Compilation
The obscure soul of Charm City: a new four-volume retrospective of Baltimore's Ru-Jac Records provides a goldmine of long-forgotten R&B recordings previously unknown to anyone but the most hardcore of soul aficionados.
Swans: The Great Annihilator / Michael Gira: Drainland
By pairing The Great Annihilator with Drainland, the emotional rawness of Gira and Jarboe's art comes through in full color.
Son Volt: Trace
In 1995 Jay Farrar was viewed as one of the most promising voices in American music. He didn't disappoint.
A Minor Forest: Flemish Altruism / Inindependence
A Minor Forest didn’t live long enough to see their craft surpass their inspiration, and for this reason their legacy is safer now than it was 20 years ago.