Kalie Shorr on Making the Country Record of 2021 (Except It’s Not Country)
Country’s brightest new voice discusses her first rock record, her love of Liz Phair, and why country singers deal with so much drama
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Author: Dan Weiss
You Gotta Orient Myself: One of Jon Hassell’s Last Interviews
The groundbreaking soundscaper and reinventor of modern trumpet died on June 26th at age 84
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Pregnant With All This Space: Deftones’ White Pony at 20
Why the art metal band’s third album is still their best
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Death Poems for the Living Gods of America: Sonic Youth’s NYC Ghosts and Flowers Turns 20
Where Pitchfork went wrong about SY’s most underrated LP
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What Bothers You Today: Yo La Tengo’s Electr-O-Pura Turns 25
Hoboken’s greatest band made sure you remembered their name in ’95
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Spit and Retrieve: The Hives’ Veni Vidi Vicious at 20
Before Is This It or White Blood Cells was the debut from an even more mysterious Swedish quintet that dressed like Shriners sans fez
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Who Makes the Traffic Interesting: Steely Dan’s Two Against Nature Turns 20
Why Walter Becker and Donald Fagen deserved to win that Grammy over Radiohead and Eminem
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My Mind’s Amiss, I’ve Lost the Kiss: Lou Reed’s Ecstasy at 20
For any other artist, Lou’s final proper song cycle would’ve been a great last album
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I Am She Who Stinks of Men: Tricky’s Maxinquaye at 25
Plenty of works can lay claim to the title of the Horniest Album of All-Time, but only rarified company like Prince or PJ Harvey can straddle both that shortlist and the one for Greatest Albums Ever Made
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Hell Ain’t Half Full: PJ Harvey’s To Bring You My Love Turns 25
The third Island LP from Polly Jean and her machine remains her singular blues punk masterpiece
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Something I Wrote High to Massive Attack v Mad Professor’s No Protection Which Is Now 25, Hooray!
In other words, how to properly experience the best remix album of the 1990s for its silver anniversary
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IN CONCERT: Poppy’s Pet Sounds
This “one woman Faith No More” is wowing young crowds across the country on her latest tour
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Let Me Tell You ‘Bout the Chicken Grease: D’Angelo’s Voodoo Turns 20
Assessing its status as the quintessential soul album of the 2000s
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Grammys 2020: Who Will Win and Who Should Win
A look at the strongest prospects for music’s biggest night
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Locked Up Like a Trophy: Vampire Weekend’s Contra Turns 10
A look back at the most underrated album of the most hyped band of the last decade
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