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Year of the Month

1999, The Year Power-Pop Broke (My Heart)

April 30, 2025

The author looks at three of his favorite albums from 1999, which all have roots in power-pop but branch out in rather different directions

Year of the Month

The White Stripes' debut album bridged beginnings and endings in 1999

April 29, 2025

The White Stripes is a feedback loop of guitar noise and influences that connects the music that would become rock 'n' roll with the sounds of the genre in both its nastiest and most thoughtful moments.

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Sunflower Bean go petal to the hair metal on Mortal Primetime

April 29, 2025

A weekly column where New Music Tuesdays live on. Conversation is encouraged in the comments.

In Memoriam

I want to ride the baggage car of your old mystery train: David Thomas, 1953–2025

April 25, 2025

To see the world in this way is more than opposition, it is a position that is off the grid.

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There's no need to cut the Mamalarky

April 22, 2025

A weekly column where New Music Tuesdays live on. Conversation is encouraged in the comments.

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Valerie June's latest is a genre-hopping album of the year contender

April 15, 2025

A weekly column where New Music Tuesdays live on. Conversation is encouraged in the comments.

Signals, calls and marches: Surveying the songs at Hands Off!

April 10, 2025

The music and the words.

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Cheekface stay both cheeky and good on Middle Spoon

April 8, 2025

A weekly column where New Music Tuesdays live on. Conversation is encouraged in the comments.

Year of the Month

“…Baby One More Time”

April 8, 2025

Not a girl, not yet a woman, but a star from the moment we saw her.

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Weatherday's latest is worth buzzing about

April 1, 2025

A weekly column where New Music Tuesdays live on. Conversation is encouraged in the comments.

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Everything Changes Everything Stays the Same belatedly makes good on lofty expectations

March 25, 2025

A weekly column where New Music Tuesdays live on. Conversation is encouraged in the comments.

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Courting's new album sounds like a million in prizes

March 18, 2025

A weekly column where New Music Tuesdays live on. Conversation is encouraged in the comments.