Frank Black Talks ‘Revenge Tour,’ ‘Teenager of the Year’ Anniversary
[Rolling Stone] Thirty years after the release of his “big, pompous” second solo album, Pixies frontman is reviving his solo career to give it its due, finally By Kory Grow In the early Eighties, Charles Thompson was such a swell, upstanding, likable young man that his high school teachers recognized him with “a funny little dinky ...
Nathaniel Rateliff & The Night Sweats at Xcel Energy Center
November 2, Xcel Energy Center, St. Paul MN – our biggest single show ever outside of Colorado and NYC. Show is fucking fantastic too! – Dave Rowan
Soccer Mommy’s Visceral Chronicle of Loss
On the new album “Evergreen,” the artist Sophie Allison makes sadness come alive and transform. [The New Yorker] By Hanif Abdurraqib The earliest iteration of Soccer Mommy emerged out of a bedroom in the summer of 2015, with a handful of lo-fi, home-recorded songs posted to Bandcamp. The songs were sparse and built around acoustic guitar, ...
THE THE Showcase New Album ‘Ensoulment’ As North American Tour Continues
By Jim Ryan [Forbes] “It’s Friday night in Chicago. You can do better than that!” teased The The frontman Matt Johnson on stage last week during a rare stateside appearance at the Salt Shed in Chicago. “Today, you get two sets for the price of one. And we call set one ‘the listening set,’” he explained. “We ...