Dave Alvin turns it up. The intensity, the focus, the volume. On Alvin's new album Eleven Eleven, the man who many credit with pioneering what has come to be known as 'roots rock,' revisits the...

Of Nick Lowe, NPR once observed, "Few musicians get better with age, Nick Lowe is an exception." While it's undeniable that his last album garnered Lowe the best reviews -- dubbed "utterly...

Heart sewn firmly to his sleeve, Elliott continues his tuneful dissection of life & what makes it difficult.

The Decemberists know that the psychology of a culture at war is complex; that historical archetypes can inform the masses on current events far better than the evening news; and, perhaps most...

Making It is the first new album by Stew & The Negro Problem, the collaborative partnership that is Stew and Heidi Rodewald, since Passing Strange, their Tony award winning play turned Spike Lee...

Chicago trio Russian Circles return with not only their fourth and heaviest album to date -- but also with Empros they're poised to take the crown as innovators reinvigorating the staid trappings of...

Chicago trio Russian Circles return with not only their fourth and heaviest album to date -- but also with Empros they're poised to take the crown as innovators reinvigorating the staid trappings of...

Compiled by renowned DJ Baris K, this is a 14-track compilation featuring Turkish classics from the 70s -- from rock stalwarts Erkin Koray and Cem Karaca, to disco folksters Baris Manco, Nazan Soray,...

There is an unbelievable clarity of sound and vision to Veckatimest: vocals (a duty shared by all band members) are sharper and more complex, arrangements are tighter, production is more venturous...

As its title would suggest, Castaways and Cutouts is a record populated with an eclectic array of unlikely characters in various states of abandonment and revelry. While the likes of Spanish gypsies,...

It is true that Gloss Drop is a bewitching, entrancing album that defies both categorization and easy analysis. Just as Mirrored was a massive leap on from the early EPs that first got them noticed,...

Jonathan Wilson’s music is steeped equally in the woodsy contours of his Blue Ridge origins and the atmospheric guitar reveries of Neil Young and Quicksilver Messenger Service. Gentle Spirit, an...

When global bass music matriarch Mary Anne Hobbs recently told The Fader "Flying Lotus, for me,is like the Hendrix of his generation", it seemed more than an audacious opinion, and with the arrival...

Produced by T Bone Burnett. Released April 9, 1996. Grammy nominated for Best Contemporary Folk Album. Track Listing: 1. Orphan Girl 2. Annabelle 3. Pass You By 4. Barroom Girls 5. ...

Unlike the iconic Ft. Wayne NJ garden store that inspired its name, Fountains of Wayne are still very much open for business. In fact, their new album Sky Full of Holes sounds like a whole new...

Produced by David Rawlings. Released July 31, 2001. Grammy nominated for Best Contemporary Folk Album. Track Listing: 1. Revelator 2. My First Lover 3. Dear Someone 4. Red Clay...

Future Islands' romantic synth sound scales new heights with On the Water, the Baltimore trio's most ambitious and fully realized statement yet. Built around a song cycle exploring love, loss, and...

Since breaking on to the music scene in the early nineties, CAKE has not only survived, but thrived in a tumultuous industry where major labels have continued to merge themselves out of existence,...

Strut presents a brand new retrospective of one of the Caribbean's most towering musical figures, Mighty Sparrow, covering 1962 to 1974. During a career of over 40 years, Sparrow has been an...