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Album Spotlight: Black Midi’s 'Schlagenheim'
May 31, 2019
The debut album from London-based band layers piercing guitar intensity atop rhythmic finesse to achieve beautifully chaotic power.
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Album Spotlight: Five Times Surprise
May 6, 2019
Avant guitarists Henry Kaiser and Anthony Pirog have formed a stunning ensemble that delivers a tonal siesta with a bonus 40-minute improv surprise ending.
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Album Spotlight: Joe Robinson’s 'Undertones'
April 16, 2019
Shelve the John Mayer comparisons. This Australian virtuoso establishes his voice and makes the best album of his career.
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Album Spotlight: The Writhing Squares’ 'Out of the Ether'
March 4, 2019
A sugar-rush basement brew of choogle, slo-mo kraut, and garage cosmic jazz.
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Album Spotlight: David Torn’s 'Sun of Goldfinger'
February 10, 2019
Uneasy listening from a master of mood, sound, and texture.
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PG Editors’ Best Albums of 2018
December 29, 2018
Serving up our editors’ eclectic selections from the year’s musical smorgasbord, and looking toward their most anticipated releases for 2019.
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Album Spotlight: Susto’s 'Ever Since I Lost My Mind'
December 24, 2018
Take a bleeding heart, some passion, make the guitars rage, and you’ve got an entire package.
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Album Spotlight: King Buffalo’s 'Longing to Be the Mountain'
November 25, 2018
The Rochester psych-rock trio takes listeners on a steady-building sojourn through a perfect storm, well-timed with epic guitar breaks and expansive touches.
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Album Spotlight: Richard Bennett’s 'Ballads in Otherness'
October 29, 2018
Travel through time with this master of twang.
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Album Spotlight: Anna Calvi’s 'Hunter'
October 9, 2018
A passionate British guitarist creates a supremely confident album full of feedback and fury.
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Album Spotlight: Patrick Droney
August 27, 2018
A virtuoso guitarist with heart delivers a charged debut.
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Album Review: Jeff Beck’s Bigger, Better, Badder "Loud Hailer"
July 12, 2016
The Strat master says he wants to move past “guitar nerd” albums, but his latest effort is still brimming with chops, funky rhythms, and untouchable mystique.
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Best Music of 2015 … and Beyond
December 31, 2015
20 albums that dominated PG’s playlists. Plus, our most-anticipated albums of the New Year.
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'Nathan East: For the Record' Movie Review
January 12, 2015
A behind-the-scenes look at the low-end legend's career and the making of his latest solo album.
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Best Albums of 2014
December 31, 2014
PG’s music-loving staffers reveal their favorite records of the past year.
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Ear to the Ground: Sleep's “The Clarity”
September 4, 2014
The doom titans’ first recording in more than 20 years is even more monstrously throbbing than their genre-defining early work.
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Ear to the Ground: Chris Smither’s “Link of Chain”
September 2, 2014
To celebrate a lifetime of music, the Boston folk-blues luminary recruits like-minded friends to help out with two volumes featuring new versions of old favorites.
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Ear to the Ground: Witch Mountain’s “Psycho Animundi”
August 27, 2014
When you hear Uta Plotkin’s soulful wail, you’ll wish more doom metal bands had female singers.
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Ear to the Ground: Tom Heyman’s “Black Top”
August 18, 2014
The Bay Area’s go-to pedal-steel man cuts smoldering, J.J. Cale-style grooves on his new pawnshop-gear-powered album.
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Ear to the Ground: Woods’ “Tambourine Light”
August 12, 2014
With its chiming, 12-string Rickenbacker leads and boyish vocal harmonies, this is anything but a nod to Dylan.
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