In many ways, at least in regards to the music I listen to, Rock and Roll is a lost art.  By Rock and Roll, I mean Rock and FUCKING Roll!  In an era where the best music seems to lead with the head or the heart, it is sometimes refreshing

Band of Horses stole a lot of hearts in the early aughts.  They wrote songs with big emotional peaks; dreamy falsettos and ethereal guitars eventually crashed by crunchy distortion.  Following their first few records, the band veered further from their foggy coastal sound, and into a more country aesthetic, more

A true American troubadour, guitarist and multi-instrumentalist Jack Adkins set sail in the early 80's to various small venues as sort never-ending tour.  This would go on through the early 90's, when he hopped off the road to take a real job in the tech industry. He was already part

Beach House have always had an uncanny knack for using mood to create a warm space; a vaporous fortress of atmospheric feelings.  The Baltimore duo are certainly great songwriters, but their real prowess lays in creating the vibe. And, boy, did they ever with their most recent double LP, Once