There’s something seductively audacious about the concept album. While most records aim simply to collect a dozen good songs, the concept album goes further – weaving tracks together with a narrative ...

In the world of music, popularity is often a poor metric for power. There is a specific class of artist known as the 'musician's musician': bands that laboured in relative obscurity, played to empty ...

What does a city sound like when you turn its transit system into a musical instrument? This clever web project answers that ...

An amorous pansexual alien charms the pants off two best friends in Addison Heimann's audaciously offbeat horror-comedy Touch Me.

Indie Basement is a weekly column on BrooklynVegan focusing on classic indie and alternative artists, “college rock,” and new and current acts who follow a similar path. There are reviews of new ...

The band’s second album by the same title is an unclassifiable mood piece: a strangely heightened world of desperate characters and hooks like enervated simulacra of more familiar songs. On Your Day ...

The Toronto jazz-pop musicians embrace the soft-focus twang of ’90s country on an album that summons the spirit of a backyard campfire. Across 11 songs, Krgovich finds bliss in the everyday: meeting a ...

It's been a tough run for the industry, but there's plenty of strong contenders for game of the year, from old franchises to all-new IP And look, there have been some ace blockbusters this year, too.

This Friday’s arrival of Indiana Jones And The Dial Of Destiny serves as a reminder of the pivotal role composer John Williams has played in the cinema for more than five decades. Williams may have ...

When Duran Duran was at the peak of their stardom 40 years ago, conventional wisdom suggested that the quintet was an inevitable flash in the pan—New Romantics destined to be forgotten once their ...