Tom Breihan

Next month, the veteran LA beat-scene producer Jason Chung, known to the world as Nosaj Thing, will return with his first album in five years. Nearly every song on the new Nosaj Thing LP Continua is a collaboration. We’ve already posted “Blue Hour,” with Julianna Barwick,  » Read More

In the past few years, a whole lot of underground bands have been mining inspiration from the big-riff majesty and freewheeling speed of ’80s crossover thrash. Massachusetts’ High Command are one of the very best of those bands. Like a lot of present-day thrashers, High Command have roots in hardcore, but there’s not that much punk in High Command’s sound.  » Read More

The New York indie rock trio Jobber features Hellrazor members Kate Meizner and Mike Falcone, and they’re writing fuzz-pop songs about pro wrestling and about the parallels between wrestling and presend-day life itself. (A jobber is one of those wrestlers who only ever loses — who exists entirely to make the big stars look dominant.  » Read More

Five years ago, the country singer Ashley McBryde came out with “A Little Dive Bar In Dahlonega,” her first major-label single. The song wasn’t a huge hit, but it was an immediate critical sensation. Part of it was the way that McBryde sang the song — a tough, warm, lived-in twang that sounded like it belonged to a character in the song.  » Read More

These days, Kanye West has mostly been in the news for reasons related to his severed relationship with the Gap and for the confusing statements that he’s made about it, but the man is apparently still making music, and he’s still doing it with prominent collaborators. Right now, Kanye is in London for Fashion Week.  » Read More

Next month, the sage songwriting legend Bill Callahan will release a new album with the difficult-to-type title YTI⅃AƎЯ. When he announced the LP, Callahan wrote that he “wanted to make a record that addressed or reflected the current climate,” and he’s specifically hoping to help people get out of their state of “hypnagogic rage.”  » Read More

Beck covered a Neil Young classic. That’s nice, right? One weary singer-songwriter icon saluting another? Beck comes from an alt-rock generation where everyone idolized Neil Young, and Beck himself is no exception. A few years ago, he and Jenny Lewis covered Young’s “Harvest Moon” at Red Rocks.  » Read More

In The Number Ones, I’m reviewing every single #1 single in the history of the Billboard Hot 100, starting with the chart’s beginning, in 1958, and working my way up into the present.  » Read More

Two years after she released her rock-solid Griselda Records album The Liz, the Buffalo rapper Armani Caesar is getting ready to follow it with The Liz 2. The new project was supposed to be out by now, but it got pushed back until next month.  » Read More