Music Archives

Rarely have best-selling pop constructs seemed as prefabricated as Britney Spears, the 17-year-old behind such virtually identical hits as...

S.O.N.O.G.R.A.M., the awkwardly titled solo debut from One Be Lo, has steadily developed a healthy subterranean buzz. That's largely thanks...

A champion freestyler tries to conquer hostile territory: the studio.

Hitting on an approach that begs to be called post-post-rock, Out Hud plays instrumental guitar jams that summon the wiggle and shake missing from...

From deep within someone's archives comes S/T + Singles/Unreleased, a reissue of music by Tobin Sprout's pre-Guided By Voices band Fig.4....

The torchbearers of classic thrash get modern, and tortured.

Few groups are approached with the knee-scraping reverence afforded to Krautrock legend Can, so it makes sense that a two-disc set of different...

If the best evidence of genius is the ability to hold two contradictory ideas at once, few of Randy Newman's songs fail to offer evidence of...

The sticker affixed to the cover of Sailing To Philadelphia, the second solo album from Mark Knopfler, boasts "from the voice and...

Adrian Belew is a guitarist most people have heard whether they realize it or not. From the late '70s on, Belew has recorded or performed with a...