Did 2020 set the bar low enough that it’s safe to hope this year will be better? This New Year's…
Few recordings transport me directly to a time and place like Dusted, the 1987 album by foundational New York noise-rock…
German one-man primal black-metal outfit Old Growth has dropped a remarkable debut. The project of a musician who goes by…
Percussionist Samuel Scranton and bassoonist Katherine Young (who was, in the distant past, a Reader editorial staffer) combine improvised and…
In the bad bad not good year that was 2020, optimism often felt as plausible as a unicorn. That’s a…
Though it came out in mid-December, too late to make most “best of 2020” lists, Megalophobe’s Music for Resistance Fantasies…
When I heard that the lone surviving Bee Gee, Barry Gibb, was releasing a country album, I didn’t bat an…
Music discovery has changed a lot in 50 years, but the Reader is still around—and so is Bonnie Koloc. In…