Welcome to part two of The 250 Rock and Roll and Folk Albums: 2000-2025. Please feel free to read part one HERE, but don't feel like it's necessary in order to undersatnd the plot. As explained in part one: Is this list the "best" or "top" 250 rock & folk albums

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THE NEW PORNOGRAPHERS THE FORMER SITE OF NEW PORNOGRAPHERS MERGE RECORDS  Despite the initial controversy with its name when the band first appeared, The New Pornographers made it big instantly, and it was the quality of the music, lyrics and pure persistence that did it for this then collective, now a fully-fledged band. Now, with […]

Viggen notes that booking agents often have a problem deciding which venues to give her- classical, jazz or post rock - but her listeners shouldn’t or wouldn’t care because it makes all the sense musically.

“He painted trees as by some special divining instinct of their essential qualities. He understood them.” So begins Algernon Blackwood’s 1912 novella, ‘The Man Whom the Trees Loved’, a rich and unsettling tale that follows a man who, influenced by a painter specialising in portraits of trees, develops a strange obsession with the woodland surrounding […]

The 2000s was a booming time for indie, but down the line, all those bands seem to have somewhat stagnated. What are the reasons for it? Find out here.

These 17 groups came together for one defining album. Tensions, creative differences or tragedy stopped them from ever producing another

In a just world, the music of Shoes would have been blasting out of radios throughout America in the late '70s and early '80s. This long-running band from

A look at the reason why heavy metals bands began to put umlauts in their names, and how of all the bands to do it, Spinal Tap might have done it best.

We are looking back at The Clash self-titled debut album and how it not only changed the way punk rock was perceived but became the greatest debut ever

Whether in fragile singer-songwriter mode or summoning great walls of noise with his electric guitar, Neil Young is a songwriting hero

Bob Dylan has launched a new Patreon series, 'Lectures From The Grave', featuring “letters never sent” from the likes of Mark Twain.

Miles Davis' celebrate jazz record 'Birth Of The Cool' and John Coltrane's masterpiece, 'Impressions', are both set for vinyl reissue.

“Who we are and who we become depends, in part, on whom we love.”

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