How Luther Wright found a bluegrass album buried in a prog-rock classic.
Joseph Arthur stretches out on Redemption’s Son.
Neil Hamburger slays himself.
Supreme Beings of Leisure find delight in the details.
For the Gourds, trad is the new avant-garde.
Brother Wayne Kramer testifies on art, adulthood, and American Idol.
Will the real Slim Shady please stand up?
New York was going to hell, so Radio 4 wrote an album.
Sam Beam is a one-man tent revival.
Wilco: Giving American music a shot in the arm.
Critics, Academics, Musicians, and Writers Come together at EMPs second annual Pop Music Studies Conference.
Thievery Corporation bring more learned electronic jazz.
The Queers are sensitive boys, you motherfuc. . . .
Doves point the way for a guitar-pop revival.
Legendary iconoclast John Sinclair walks and talks the history of the blues.
Three-disc set showcases the work of visionary jazz composer Eric von Essen.
Television are still cooler than you.
Unknown Hinson fights for country music, bay-beh.
Ishmael Butler on the past, the present, and the brightness of blackness.
Los Hombres Calientes are a band on a mission.
W.K.’s coming up, and he wants to get the party started.
The Bay Area’s Blackalicious light up the darkness.
Presenting Bob Dylan, the Hardest Workin’ Man in Show Business.