You can’t be cute forever. At worst, the world grinds you into bitterness. At best (and much preferable), you grow up a little bit. Such is the case with Brooklyn’s

While some may be growing weary of reissue mania, one undeniable fact is that now people have to dig a little deeper. As a result, forgotten or overlooked

You can never put too fine a point on how environment affects how music is made and enjoyed. Pumping hot salsa seems absurd in the icy plains of Alaska

The fact that Give The People What They Want is even being released is a pretty great thing. The album was slated to come out last year, but Sharon Jones’ cancer

If the music industry was like the movie industry—and it is but that’s a think piece for another time—the executives would be freaking out over scheduling. So many long-awaited returns and superstar records came out this year that, if this was the movie business, someone would have moved some of them to a less busy year. This year has simply been an embarrassment of riches. …

For every hero of the scene, there are plenty of hard working bands that fall under the radar. It’s not that they are lesser bands, it’s just that history

Music fans should be used to the fact that we’re on track to have every band from the ’90s reunited, from the cult bands to the stadium-packers

Sequelitis is commonplace in Hollywood, but its “familiarity breeds comfort” approach has increasingly gotten a foothold in the music industry

Poliça have always been an interestingly skewed proposition. Emerging in 2011 as a spin-off from the Minneapolis super-group/collective Ganygs

With ‘90s nostalgia now churning furiously, it feels as if the tale of the Pacific Northwest rock scene of the early ’90s has been set in stone