Just like any other year, 2018 brought us some great (and not so great) music. But some albums flew far above the rest, many of them showing how growth, change, and struggle can help make us better as...

Every so often there comes an album that doesn’t seem all that interesting or different from it’s companions on the surface, but is actually a finely-tuned, great album deeper down. This is...

Ty Segall’s “Fudge Sandwich” opens with a cover of War’s “Lowrider,” transforming the upbeat and somewhat strange original into an even weirder composition, sounding like a marching anthem...

Blac Rabbit is a Queens-based psychedelic band, coming at us with their self-titled debut EP. It’s practically against the rules to judge an album by its cover, but in this case, I did just that. With...

"Eruption Bounce" is the sixth studio album by Brisbane-based post-punk rockers The Stress of Leisure, bringing their own unique twist to an already decorated genre. The simple orange cover, void of anything...

I did not expect this album from Twenty One Pilots in 2018. To be honest, I’d be surprised if anyone did. After “Blurryface” catapulted them into the mainstream three years ago, it seemed certain...

Mountain Man, despite what you may infer from the name, isn’t a bluesy-rock group of 40-somethings with long, white beards. The trio of Molly Erin Sarle, Alexandra Sauser-Monnig and Amelia Rundall Meath...

Noname’s “Room 25” opens with a self-examination of the Chicago-born artist’s music, involving a series of guessing-statements involving the listener, for example: “Maybe this the album you listen...

Courtney Hartman and Taylor Ashton’s first collective effort, “Been on Your Side,” provides a reasonable acoustic alternative for Iron and Wine’s latest EP. In fact, you’d be hard-pressed...

For nearly two decades, Animal Collective have been showcasing their distinctive brand of experimental pop to an unsuspecting audience, an audience that fluctuates nearly as much as their music. It...

Donald Glover, better known by his stage name Childish Gambino, released his latest single and accompanying video for “This is America” Sunday after a performance on Saturday Night Live.   [embedyt]...