2013 winner of NMW’s best album of the year, Neko Case, returns from a five year vacation from solo work next week, offering up a new record, Hell-On. It the alt/indie/country hero’s first since her masterful The Worse Things Get, the Harder I [...]
We’ve spoken of jazz guitarist Mary Halvorson before in these hallowed pages – I named her 2016 record with her octet, Away With You, the 7th best record of 2016. Avant garde jazz guitar isn’t necessarily everyone’s cup of tea, I [...]
Kansas City’s favorite mother-son folksy duo Madisen Ward and the Mama Bear, the band that produced “Silent Movies” which was your favorite song of 2015 and a NMW top ten song of the year, have unveiled a deeply soulful new single, [...]
Otherwise known as the artist that can do no wrong, or this generations answer to Brian Wilson, Beck surprisingly launched himself straight to the top of everyone’s Album of the Year lists with his latest release, the simply titled Colors. I dig the [...]
I’m late on this mostly because I stopped paying attention to him a long, long time ago, but it is important to point out that despite all of the bullshit and betrayals and sold out songs and stupid wrestling crap, William Patrick Corgan stands as [...]
One good thing about our president, he certainly inspires musicians. This is the new one from grunge queens L7, a band that, unless I missed something, hasn’t released new music since the last century.
Julie Doiron was Courtney Barnett before Courtney Barnett was Courtney Barnett. I was spinning her records on college radio (wut up KJ kids!) when I was in college. She was in Eric’s Trip too, and she deserves all of your attention. She’s a [...]
I don’t usually go in for bands that, you know, like sell albums or make a profit and stuff, but I’ve always had a soft spot for The Killers. Mainly because “Mr Brightside” and “Somebody Told Me” were surprisingly [...]
I’ve been vocal in the past about my admiration for Erika Anderson, the artist better known as EMA, in the past. Her work regularly hits my endo fo year top ten lists and I’m sure I’ve drunkenly rambled about the genius of her work, from [...]
Due out June 17 on Anti-, case/lang/veirs is a collaboration between three astonishing and accomplished female artists. Laura Veirs is one of the most respected young songwriters in the country, k.d. lang is an alt-pop legend, and Neko Case, whose last [...]
