Music & Culture

Ross Shapiro, photographed in his home for the Athens Potluck project, in 2012.

Songs We Love: The Glands, 'Straight Down'

by Lars Gotrich

Ross Shapiro was that surly record store clerk, but was also the frontman for one of the great late '90s Athens bands. We remember the late musician with a perfectly perverse rock 'n' roll dance song.
Gallant's debut album, Ology, is out April 8.

First Listen: Gallant, 'Ology'

by Frannie Kelley

The young soul singer refuses to take sides in R&B's generational divide, so his songs all sound familiar, even when they're several things at once.