Daily Newsletter, October 19, 2024

Album review

OFFICE CULTURE ENOUGH RUINATION RECORDS There are a number of artists that rarely or never took the usual formulaic route when creating their music, something that you can call experimental pop/modern music. Listening to Enough, a sweeping 16-song cycle album by New York’s Office Culture, a number of names come to mind – Scott Walker, […]

Back in the late sixties and early seventies a new musical term cropped up as a description of roots/country music souped up by psych rock, or roots music playe

SHOWER CURTAIN WORDS FROM A WISHING WELL ANGEL TAPES/FIRE TALK It’s always quite comforting when you hear an indie band combine some fuzzy, lightly distorted guitars with gentle, subdued vocal harmonies, particularly if the songwriting is a good match for such a sound. That is exactly what we get to hear on words from a […]

Sly Stone was on top of the world during the 1960s, following the success of Sly and the Family Stone, but his time at the top would not last forever.

Stein’s memoir Moving Music is as colourful and compelling as the famous artists he toured with.

The groundbreaking dream-pop trio’s co-founder reflects on his storied career leading up to his recent solo EP Atlas

"Like a starving lion in a chicken coop"

Delving into the highs and lows of 'Pet Sounds', the 1967 magnum opus that saw The Beach Boys shrug off their surfboards for a more experimental sound.

Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times.