Whether she’s backed by a full band or performing solo, Kristeen Young unlocks a puzzle box of dense, intricate sounds and surreal, allusive lyrics. On her late...
Messer Chups are not just any surf-garage-trash-roots-horror rock trio from Russia. On the Saint Petersburg band’s latest album, The Adventures of Zombierella a...
The kids — goats, dogs, kitties, birds and other darling creatures — are alright in composer-pianist Rachel Fuller’s Animal Requiem, a work that is a tribute to...
Even among the early punk rock bands, 45 Grave stood out most scarily. Their songs had all the requisite punk ferocity, but a track like “Black Cross” also drif...
As befits their name, Plague Vendor manufacture a sound that’s unpredictable and unsettling on their second album, By Night (Epitaph Records). “I’m causing comm...
Rhiannon Giddens is best known as the singer-violinist-banjoist of Carolina Chocolate Drops, but she crafts some enchanting spells on her new solo album, There ...
Suzanne Santo beguiled audiences as one half of the L.A. duo Honeyhoney, mixing indie pop with country and folk. She expands her range further on her captivatin...
Led by the charismatic vocalist Zoé Colotis, Caravan Palace stir up a merry blend of jazzy swing and pop chansons that can set dance floors spinning. But in a d...
“Someone’s got to sing the blood, and someone’s got to sing the pain,” Nick Cave’s disembodied voice intoned in a recording of his spoken-word piece “Steve McQu...
Marisol “La Marisoul” Hernandez is the voice behind La Santa Cecilia, the charming local band that segues from cumbia, tangos and other traditional Latin-music ...
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