Get Lost 'DayDreaming' With Thanya Iyer
The video for the Montreal group's "DayDreaming" is, according to director Bucky Illingworth, about "the relation between daydreaming and personal identity."
Music Reviews
World Cafe Nashville: Tim Gent's '333' Calls For Hustle As Means To Liberation
The Tennessee-raised artist's upcoming album Life Away From Home is occasionally combative, but more often artfully composed or confiding.
To Comfort A 'Bad Mind,' Erin Rae Unearths Uneasy Truths
The Nashville singer-songwriter offers empathy through her own struggle with identity.
First Listen: Wajatta, 'Casual High Technology'
Reggie Watts teams up with John Tejada, an elder statesman of West Coast dance music, to create soulful and abstract electro-pop.
First Listen: Ry Cooder, 'The Prodigal Son'
The 71-year-old raconteur returns to the old songs and inhabits the guises of death-haunted bluesmen to speak to the issues of the current era.
First Listen: Sarah Louise, 'Deeper Woods'
The fingerpicking guitarist honors the soft landscape and vivid detail of forests, embedding meticulous guitar compositions in lush arrangements.
First Listen: Simone Dinnerstein, 'Circles: Piano Concertos by Bach & Glass'
A world premiere recording of a new piano concerto by Philip Glass sits comfortably beside a Bach classic.
Ashley Monroe Embraces Countrypolitan Classicism On 'Sparrow'
Critic Ken Tucker says that Monroe's moody new album proves that the singer/songwriter is "working in a space that's almost entirely separate from anyone else in country music right now."
'Rent' Is Due And Big Freedia Is Here To Collect
Big Freedia's forthcoming EP, 3rd Ward Bounce, features this outrageously fun '80s rap-rock resurrection.
Wild Pink's 'Lake Erie' Details The Movement Of Life
One year after its debut, Wild Pink is already back with Yolk in the Fur, drawing more elastic textures out of the sensitively-drawn rock trio.