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By Max Freedman We so often think of music as a free-flowing expression of one’s innermost emotions — yearning, love, grief, dismay — that it’s jolting to hear Lucy Dacus speak about it as roughly the opposite. “There are a lot more facts in this,” the Richmond, Virginia-based 26-year-old says of her third album, Home Video, a variety of crystal-clear, folk-inflected rock..
Read MoreRostam Batmanglij is working on some Lucinda Williams covers. In April, he shared a teaser of his progress for now, including with pal and in-demand horn blower Henry Solomon laying down a baritone saxophone part over a shuffling beat. His fandom of the country-music legend is well documented — “hey siri, google why is Lucinda Williams’ music queer although she is not,” he twe..
Read MoreBy Max Freedman Michelle Zauner is a low-key professional. As soon as I reach her by means of the video call on a April morning, she’s sporting a black tee emblazoned with Chester Cheetah (yes, the Cheetos mascot), yet her Brooklyn apartment’s Zoom setup reflects a DJ booth at a well-funded radio station. She apologizes for the blanket jumbled across the plush-looking couch beyon..
Read MoreAny time St. Vincent debuted her newest track, “The Melting of the Sun,” on Saturday Night Live on April 3, she sat the portrait of a ‘70s superstar in a heavy fur coat along with a glittering white and pink dress with her electric guitar in hand. Though it was visually gorgeous, there was a tender, haunting excellent to the efficiency that lay simmering just beneath its surfac..
Read MoreThe origin story of Chicago musical group Moontype goes like this: A trio of music conservatory graduates set out on a journey with each other. While doing so, they learn how to bend three distinct sources of sound — bassist-vocalist Margaret McCarthy, guitarist Ben Cruz, and drummer Emerson Hunton — into harmonious unity. Yet that version doesn't tell the entire story of how Bodi..
Read MoreBeing in a musical group is tricky. Once you begin out, you can't take yourself also seriously or you won't be interchangeable enough to deal with the inevitable challenges. And whenever you do get big — which almost never happens — you aspire to be taken seriously, yet if you're too serious, you risk alienating people. That's why Imagine Dragons's goofy as hell new video for "Fol..
Read MoreBy Loren DiBlasi Two decades have passed, and Life Without Buildings still sound like freedom. Hear the band’s sole full-length record, Any Other City, once and it’ll never leave you — its lush, syrupy warmth oozes from your ears to your insides and stays there, like a glowing flame that never goes out. What keeps it crackling? Soft, sustained rhythms that toss and turn with ge..
Read MoreBy Danielle Chelosky “I go back and forth about whether that could be the correct thing to do,” singer-songwriter Julien Baker says about running away and making music in the woods. On this 10 a.M. Phone call, Baker is doing what she seemingly routinely does — weighing the morality of a situation. “If I isolate myself from this world that I am confused and saddened by, the co..
Read MoreBy Danielle Chelosky Dylan Baldi has a lot of ground to cover. The leader of prolific Ohio indie metal band Cloud Nothings would be talking about July 2020’s quarantine album The Black Hole Understands; December’s follow-up Life Is Only One Event; one of their 27 live albums all unleashed last year; their seven Bandcamp exclusive EPs released from August 2020 up until now; or thi..
Read MoreBy Amanda Silberling Any time Radiohead released their divisive eighth album The King of Limbs in February 2011, it had been nearly four years since the release of the revered In Rainbows. As fans, we were parched. This lull sparked the era that cemented the stereotype of the rabid Radiohead fan: poring over obscure B-sides, searching for clues to solve some puzzle that we weren’t..
Read Morethe opening time I heard John Ross sing, in the back of a Brooklyn venue on a frigid November night, his voice lit up the dark room like an ember. The scene might've been captured cinematically with a long lens peering through a frosted window, his vocal glow warming the two dozen people indoors listening. Considering his formidable height and physical stature, Ross isn't a loud man, ..
Read Morewithin the past few years, Miley Cyrus has customary herself as a queen of covers. No one else in the mainstream pop realm has done what she has, reclaiming her energy by means of the lens of the past and making it new. On Plastic Hearts, that meant including her takes on "Zombie" and "Heart of Glass" along with invited Billy Idol and Joan Jett to sing with her. On Sunday (February 7..
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