By Thomas Richards The everchanging Australian group King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard keeps its reputation of being one of the most eclectic bands intact with its 16th full-length album, K.G. This being the first album released after the departure of band manager and drummer Eric Moore, some were…

Novelist William Faulkner famously wrote, “The past isn’t dead. It’s not even past.” The maxim is not simply applicable to the study of history. People are haunted by the things they have and haven’t done, as well as those they’ve known. Artists are haunted by their influences, desperate simultaneously…

In the first half of the 1970s, Neil Young—like a number of rock stars of his generation—battled to stay relevant as industry demands attempted to direct his creativity. After a pair of commercially successful albums, he struggled to get one released as the now-classic Tonight’s The Night sat on the…

With so many storylines converging, Night Network, the new album by The Cribs, was destined to be a compelling album. It emerges after a rare 18-month period of relative silence from the band due to a protracted legal battle in which the band became self-managed and had to put…

Guitar shredders are a dime a dozen. A quick perusal of Instagram reveals a seemingly endless string of bedroom guitarists who can unleash a firehose spray of pentatonic scales that sound like angry hornets. But a guitarist who lends his fretboard talents in service of the song is a…

Country artist Chris Stapleton has been praised for his work as a songwriter. The recipient of five Grammy awards, Stapleton has realized success binding the multiple strands of Americana together in a honky-tonk mishmash. Though his songs marinate in country twang, Stapleton’s genre is the art of songcraft. On…

Ever-elusive underground hip-hop recluse Aesop Rock has returned from the ethereal depths of his recent journeys to deliver his Spirit World Field Guide. Known for his complex and verbose prose informed by his neurotic disposition, Aesop Rock’s newest album follows critically acclaimed 2016’s The Impossible Kid. Spirit World Field Guide Aesop Rock…

As the Ace of SM’s experimental boy band, SHINee, Taemin solidifies his status as one of the top solo artists in K-pop today. Following the release of Act 1 of his third full album, Never Gonna Dance Again, the 27-year-old returns with Act 2. The record is a concept…

For AC/DC to even put out a new record in 2020 is a serious accomplishment. Power Up AC/DC Columbia Records, Nov. 13 7/10 Just in the past few years, the band’s musical backbone, Malcom Young, died in 2017. Brian Johnson had hearing problems severe enough to send him to…

Unless you’ve been living underneath a sub-woofer for the last 40 years, you already know that Brian Eno is one of the most important figures in modern music—providing sonic sorcery as a producer for everyone from David Bowie to U2 to Coldplay, along with making some very cool albums…