February 2024

In many of its manifestations, dance music has often been derided and dismissed, from “disco sucks” to “heck no to techno,” but few genres have...

PJ Harvey’s Let England Shake makes for difficult listening. That’s nothing new for an artist whose work has always veered toward the dark and the...

Merle Haggard was on a roll when he and his band the Strangers took to the stage of the Civic Center in Philadelphia on February...

Love makes the world go round, but it also goes round itself, in the grooves of the majority of the greatest pop songs ever made....

By the mid-80s, the idea of female-fronted bands taking ballsy hard rock to the top of the charts had ceased to surprise. Credible all-girl metal...

Does the thought of Valentine’s Day just make you want to draw the blinds and sit in a darkened room, watching old repeats on TV...