Vic Chestnutt

Chock full of songs about crooked bankers, the pleasures of recreational drugs and the evils of organized religion, Todd Snider's reputation as America's favorite alt-folk shit disturber remains firmly intact with the release of his newest album Agnostic Hymns and Stoner Fables. Read More

Those are just some of the words used to describe the country (soul? rock? jazz?) band that is Lambchop. Read More

In anticipation of Richard Buckner's long-awaited Our Blood , out today (8/2) on Merge Records , I asked Buckner fan Jerry DeCicca of The Black Swans (a band that has shared the stage with Buckner) to say a few words about the man : I'm submitting this text as my end of a barter: I received the new Richard Buckner album, Our Blood , several months before its release in exchange for typing about it for this "website."Read More

There's been a quite a bit of 1990s relapse going on lately, whether it's been the threat of new albums from Blink-182 or Bush, or that Soundgarden reunion, or the fact that Primus and Stephen Malkmus have a fresh ones on the way and early Elliott Smith and Modest Mouse have been recently unearthed. Read More

It is a shortened version of one of the very fine tracks to be found on the LP Nixon released in 2000. Read More

What ever you do, don't call it a comeback or anything new. Read More