Robert Christgau

Barenaked Ladies: The Sordid History of the World's Most Canadian Band

Patti Smith to Write Children's Book

Patti Smith.​Patti Smith has worked in nearly every medium. She is truly an artist in every sense of the word. Not only is she famous for her proto-punk music and poetry, but she's had exhibitions of photgraphs as well as drawings and paintings, she's modeled, been in film, and even chronicled her ... More >>

Blondie's Debbie Harry Creates Converse Line: Why This is Not Punk Rock

Just one of the new Blondie shoes that will be sold by Converse.​It seems anything involving Blondie and Converse, the quintessential and iconic shoe of late-'70s punk rockers, would be a great idea.Blondie frontwoman Debbie Harry wasn't just known for her golden tresses and her take-charge attitu ... More >>

Pazz and Jop is Out!

Albums Winner: Merriweather Post Pavilion, Animal Collective​Singles Winner: Empire State of Mind, Jay-Z feat. Alicia Keys​ This year's annual collection of the opinions of thousands of music critics regarding the best albums and singles of the year has arrived. The poll was started in 1974 by ... More >>

Why is Sonic Youth Still So Important in Indie Land?

Albums Winner: Merriweather Post Pavilion, Animal Collective​Singles Winner: Empire State of Mind, Jay-Z feat. Alicia Keys​ This year's annual collection of the opinions of thousands of music critics regarding the best albums and singles of the year has arrived. The poll was started in 1974 by ... More >>

Eternally Busy

Why is Sonic Youth Still So Important in Indie Land?

Locals Only

Arizona Artists Cover Each Other on the When in AZ Compilation

Arizona Artists Cover Each Other on the When in AZ Compilation

Arizona Artists Cover Each Other on the When in AZ Compilation

Bruce Springsteen

The Rising (Columbia)

That '80s Sound

With help from Wilco and the Gin Blossoms, Tommy Keene chases down the sound he was after 20 years ago

Famous and Tired

Pop stars complain about their jobs like everyone else. Here's what's happened when some of their gripes have actually made it to tape.

Guitar Man

Built to Spill's Doug Martsch might claim to be an amateur on the six-string, but don't let him fool you

Blues Valentine

After nearly three decades, the fateful desert meeting between Tom Waits and John Hammond is fully realized with the release of Wicked Grin

Write or Wrong

Our quarterly roundup of music books lets us get lost with Chet Baker, nasty with Bill Monroe and saved by Al Green, while Ted Nugent teaches us that happiness really is a warm gun

Lou Reed

Metal Machine Music (Buddha Original Masters Series)

Kids' Play

The Moss Brothers are a novelty act -- until you hear them

At Long Lost Live?

In search of the historic double live album . . . who started it, and who finally finished it off?

Happy Trails

Legendary record producer Snuff Garrett turned his back on Hollywood for a piece of the Arizona cowboy myth

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Legendary record producer Snuff Garrett turned his back on Hollywood for a piece of the Arizona cowboy myth