Drawn from a fabled string of shows, Van Morrison’s 1974 …It’s Too Late To Stop Now… (named for the shout that caps the outrageously teased-out ending of “Cypress Avenue,” his usual set closer) is rightly considered among the best live LPs ever. This companion culls from three of the 1973… Source: RollingStone Link: ..It's Too […]

The sixth Garbage album could’ve been released in 1995. Yet it’s still totally relevant; singer Shirley Manson’s brooding edge and producer-drummer Butch Vig’s mix of sheer guitar buzz and moody industrial texture stake their claim as forebears to artists like Sky Ferreira and even Lana Del Rey. Manson plays the… Source: RollingStone Link: Strange Little […]

On The Blue Swell, Brooklyn duo Beverly has guitars that tumble, froth and curl like waves. But the closest singer Drew Citron gets to cooling off is sipping a blue Slurpee outside 7-Eleven. “I still think you do/The things that we would talk about in the parking lot,” she sings on… Source: RollingStone Link: The Blue […]

The people on the cover of this Massachusetts quartet’s third LP are naked. So are the songs inside it: raw-hearted bursts of bald guitar churn backing lyrics that hunger for meaning in terms that’d be corny if the music didn’t hit so hard. There’s some latent emo here (one song… Source: RollingStone Link: Goodness

Following in the wake of Chance the Rapper’s critical smash Coloring Book, his Savemoney crewmate Joey Purp debuts with the bright iiiDrops, another Chicago dispatch full of soaring horns and impassioned deliveries. Purp juxtaposes optimistic beats and unflinching lyrics about growing up in “Chiraq”: “I ain’t been church in a… Source: RollingStone Link: iiiDrops