Feb 5 2018
9
On August 4, 1958, Billboard put Ricky Nelson’s “Poor Little Fool” atop a brand-new chart it dubbed the Hot 100.…
Kelsey J. Waite
kjwaite
Writer and editor from South Louisiana.
Jan 15 2018
1
Nearly 10 years after Tune-Yards made their debut with the lo-fi curiosity Bird-Brains, the Oakland outfit helmed by…
Jan 4 2018
2
The Coup, “Wear Clean Draws”
Jan 2 2018
3
With confirmed releases from the likes of Tune-Yards, Lucy Dacus, and Superchunk—plus expected new albums from My…
Dec 23 2017
2
Three staffers, three unabashed recommendations.
Dec 18 2017
2
In our monthly book club, we discuss whatever we happen to be reading and ask everyone in the comments to do the…
Dec 11 2017
3
As we said in our list of the Best Music Of 2017—as we say every year—winnowing all the thousands of albums that are…
Dec 7 2017
3
In a year as full of outstanding music as 2017, best-of voting can be a difficult task, and the wide variety of…
Dec 7 2017
3
There was too much to listen to in 2017—not just albums, of which there were once again thousands, a barrage of…
Dec 2 2017
3
Three staffers, three unabashed recommendations.
Dec 1 2017
2
Although 2017 is already wrapping up with best-of lists and the like, December still promises a handful of new…
Nov 24 2017
2
Björk finds her way back to love on Utopia, while Sufjan Stevens serves up lovely Carrie & Lowell outtakes on his Gre…
Nov 22 2017
6
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After decades of producing some of pop music’s most challenging works, Björk gave us perhaps her most difficult…
Nov 17 2017
1
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Charlotte Gainsbourg takes full creative control on Rest; the late Sharon Jones takes one final encore on Soul Of A…
Nov 6 2017
3
A live-wire energy and pointed politics made Exploded View’s self-titled debut one of our 2016 Albums Of The Year.…
Nov 3 2017
1
Hardcore veterans Converge play to their strengths on The Dusk In Us, while Shamir’s Revelations is earnest and…
Nov 1 2017
4
As 2017 winds to a close, after a year that’s seen the release of thousands of albums—an unusually large number of…
Oct 28 2017
1
Three staffers, three unabashed recommendations.
Oct 19 2017
1
Faux Fir was a great Milwaukee band I saw frequently when I was in college; it wound down around the time I left and…
Oct 6 2017
3
The Kid marks a new career high for Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith, while Kelela’s first proper album feels watered down.…