2024 was a banner year for roots music. Artists across the spectrum dropped a massive stack of incredible albums over the last 12 months. Each was packed with carefully crafted songs. Some of those ...

“Play a song about fucking!” an annoying friend yelled at a band between every song at a gig one night. The band of grizzled veterans was purely instrumental — no vocals whatsoever — but I guess they ...

If I told you 40 years ago, when the Cure was in the midst of its new-wave wonder moment, that the band would craft an inventively elegiac epic like “Songs for a Lost World” — a singular record worthy ...