In October 2013, Laurie Anderson lost her partner of 21 years, 71-year-old rock icon Lou Reed. The music world has mourned profoundly ever since—but for Anderson, Reed’s death has led …
BIG EARS 2015: Max Richter
For some, it is comforting to believe that the music world is one of discrete genres where listeners inhabit clearly marked-off territories delineated by style, preference, and social group. While …
BIG EARS 2015: Steve Gunn
For years, Steve Gunn built his reputation as a guitarist’s guitarist, in bands like Kurt Vile’s Violators, GHQ, or Gunn-Truscinski Duo, and on his own stylistically diverse solo records. His …
Alabama Shakes Stretch Out on ‘Sound and Color’
The best artists—the Kanye Wests and the Taylor Swifts—have this way of arresting you with their music, taking full hold of your conscious and unconscious brain, forcing you to give …
Night Mist: A Garage-Rock Rarity From Newport
Walking rock ’n’ roll encyclopedia Nathan Moses, of Lost and Found Records, has never steered me wrong, but it just seemed weird when he told me about Night Mist, a …