The London band Savages belie their name and their new album title, Silence Yourself, with thoughtful, elliptical broadsides that demand that listeners question everything they know while teaching “ourselves new ways of positive manipulations.” Gemma Thompson’s momentous,... More >>

While NYC big-beat swamis Billy Miller and Miriam Linna’s Sandy-soaked Norton Records warehouse has enjoyed a variety of fundraising events in the last few months, this flat-out astonishing lineup is the most potent testimony yet to the power of Norton’s achievements and... More >>

Although Nirvana and Pearl Jam get most of the credit these days, it was really the mid-’80s Seattle band Green River that set the template for the heavy, sludgy, hard-rock sound that would later be called grunge. Green River singer Mark Arm and guitarist Steve Turner reconfigured... More >>