Twenty-two-year-old internet sensation Clairo has grown from recording in her dorm room in 2017 to the beautiful Allaire studios in the Catskill Mountains, where David Bowie and Norah Jones have also worked out their artistic form. On her much anticipated second album, Sling, she worked with Lorde for backing vocals and…

It’s expected a band’s sound will change over time and Modest Mouse is no exception, releasing nine records since 1996. Its newest, The Golden Casket, offers a dramatic change in tone. Lead singer and songwriter Isaac Brock varies his lyrical topics from racist cowboys to Charles Bukowski or an indifferent…

If you’re a STYX fan but haven’t thought about the ’70s rockers in a while, 17th album Crash Of The Crown will bring memories rushing back. Their classic rock sound remains intact, mixed with some light medieval twinkling and a message about overcoming the depressions of life in America. The album is…

  Perhaps you’ve never heard of ShitKid, and if not, you’re finding out too late, since the release of their newest album, Sort Stjerne! (translated from Swedish to Dark Star!), is their last. The double album is a collection of 22 unreleased tracks by artist Åsa Söderqvist, ranging through phases…

Billy Gibbons of ZZ Top has been playing with drummer Matt Sorum and guitarist Austin Hanks on the side for a while now, and his third solo album, Hardware, the trio were clearly inspired by the California desert where they recorded. Hardware Billy Gibbons Concord, June 4 7/10 Gibbons’ voice is…

Say It Like You Feel It, the fifth album by Cash Cash, is a smokey, dry-ice-filled breath of fresh air. In the “ooh baby” genre and filled with “dance feels like love” metaphors, Cash Cash brings out real emotion and some poignant honesty. The multiplatinum New Jersey dance-pop trio…

On “Anywhere Away From Here,” from Life By Misadventure, the newest release from English musician Rag’n’Bone Man, a light piano accompanies Rory Charles Graham’s strong baritone voice, in perfect complement to guest vocalist P!nk’s raspy and melodic singing. The duo comes together like yin and yang, as the piano plays. While the…

ZHU, “DREAMLAND 2021.” The video for “Sky Is Crying” by ZHU, which features Malaysian singer-songwriter Yuna, depicts many depressing and familiar scenes from the pandemic, giving a hint at his stress levels during quarantine. A man watches a screen with news headlines flashing before him: “Pandemic effect takes hold.”…

You’d think Germans are the biggest fans of Motörhead based on the reactions of the crowd at the band’s 2012 Berlin stop on the “King Of The Road” tour. It’s beautifully captured on the new album Louder Than Noise… Live in Berlin, with 12,000 screaming fans and big hits displayed in all their glory.…

As the London trio London Grammar gets ready to release its third electro-pop album, Californian Soil, its November tour dates have already sold out. Sophomore effort Truth Is A Beautiful Thing hit No. 1 in the U.K. in 2017, and since the group has embraced a fuller, more pure pop style. Californian Soil…