“Not long ago, I found myself reminiscing the last half decade of my career. I recalled what it was like writing my first songs, recording my first album and touring in a 15-passenger van. […] It was...

In 2014, Joyce Manor released “Never Hungover Again,” a ten-song burst of pop-punk that served as a big leap for a band with roots in emo and punk. Now with 2016’s “Cody,” the band isn’t turning...

Michigan born and Tennessee raised rapper Derek Minor (formerly known as “PRo”) has been adding his flavor of southern hip-hop to the music scene for over a decade now. Under his second stage name,...

Bon Iver, the primary creative vehicle of Justin Vernon, has returned with the follow-up to their 2011 expansive self-titled album. The new album, titled “22, A Million,” is instantly curious, as each...

“Boys do cry, but I don’t think I shed a tear for a good chunk of my teenage years. It’s surprisingly my favorite part of life so far. Surprising, to me, because the current phase is what I was asking...

In what was perhaps the most unorthodox album release in music history — complete with name changes, a live-streamed fashion show, last-minute track listing edits and day-of mastering on an ambitious...

Listening to the sonic spectacle of “Fog Magic,” the second track on “Perennial,” you would be forgiven for thinking its creators were Icelandic. It may come as a surprise, then, that “Fog...

When I sat down to write a review of rapper Kendrick Lamar’s newest venture, I already knew I had a tall task ahead of me. Anyone remotely familiar with the rap/hip-hop scene (and perhaps even some...

Whether progressive rock was ever truly progressive (or ever truly rock for that matter) is a point of much tedious debate among admirers and detractors of the music. It might then be to his benefit...

I beg the reader’s forgiveness for beginning this review by talking not about Sufjan Stevens but about Soren Kierkegaard. French philosopher Henri Lefebvre writes of Kierkegaard, the great Danish...