Songs We Love: Sonder, 'Searchin'
The trio builds on the elements that defined late '90s R&B by incorporating bare drum patterns and simple harmonies into a riskier song progression.
Music Reviews
Listening To The Monkees With Fresh Ears, 50 Years Later
Rock historian missed the "Prefab Four" the first time they came along. Listening now, he finds that the Monkees' best songs have held up, mostly because they used top-notch songwriting talent.
Songs We Love: Dear Eloise, 'Something Beautiful To Share'
Naomi Yang (Galaxie 500, Damon & Naomi) directs a video for the Beijing husband-and-wife duo's languid and blissfully noisy shoegaze song about finding connection in isolation.
Songs We Love: The Dove & The Wolf, 'Seven Days'
Not long after Paloma Gil and Lou Hayat returned home to Paris, the Bataclan theater was attacked. In the video, a dancer improvises to the shimmering "Seven Days" in an empty warehouse.
Viking's Choice: Saltland, 'I Only Wish This For You'
Montreal composer Rebecca Foon, known for her work in Esmerine and Thee Silver Mt. Zion Orchestra, layers somber cello loops in a meditation on climate change.
Songs We Love: Nnamdi Ogbonnaya, 'dOn't turn me Off'
Mal Devisa and JD AKA ThrashKitten join the Chicago multi-instrumentalist for the extraterrestrial "dOn't turn me Off," a song dripping with positivity.
A Club Performance From 1960s Detroit Holds One Key To Motown's Success
Though Motown's hits were recorded in a studio, newly discovered live recordings of session guitarist Dennis Coffey make the case that the label's iconic sound was forged in Detroit's nightclub scene.
BassDrumBone Marks 40 Years Of Playing Together With 'The Long Road'
Trombonist Ray Anderson, bassist Mark Helias and drummer Gerry Hemingway first played together as a trio in 1977. Critic Kevin Whitehead says their new double album proves they can still deliver.
Songs We Love: Charlie Worsham, 'The Beginning Of Things'
The first single from the country singer's new album is a condemnation of one man's irresponsible habits — yet one that still retains compassion for him and the women who survive in his wake.
Songs We Love: Tall Friend, 'Termites'
The Philadelphia band gets at the heart of youthful romance with peculiar — and, frankly, gross — scientific specificity.