The Hunches surfaced in the waking years of this century to hit a nerve that desperately needed hitting. Playing a cacophonic, gritty kind of rock & roll, they

Hitting their stride in the late ’90s, Scottish four-piece Travis is often depicted as the first of a new wave of British bands to follow once the fervor surrounding Brit-pop earlier in the decade had died and left a lull in its wake. But while they may have shared some of their peers’ penchant for instantly fetching melodies, the band separated itself from the pack …

If you didn’t know better, it would probably be safe to assume, judging from the title, that the new solo album from Daniel Ash is a mellow, stripped-down

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There are countless tales of rock & roll dreams busted by excessive indulgences, personal ghosts, and/or muddied relationships. But while there are tragedies

As Jonathan Richman’s career has extended into its fourth decade, new albums from the singer-songwriter have grown increasingly ancillary. Even when the

When thinking of the music of the ’80s, most people probably envision some extreme version of new wave squeaked out of synthesizers by a band

Formed in 1983 by songwriting principals singer Mark Mulcahy and guitarist Ray Neal, New Haven’s Miracle Legion crafted a finely tuned blend of jangly pop-rock, folk intricacies, and Van Morrison-esque soulfulness that by all rights should have grabbed the as of yet unrecognized alternative masses by the ears. Indeed, though they couldn’t get a record review without at least a mention of REM, they never …

That the Delgados were underappreciated during the band’s existence is only further underscored by how infrequently you hear the Scottish quartet’s name

I’m not so predisposed to luddism as to tell you that things were better in the days before the internet put a gabillion superbytes of information at our