Nathaniel Rateliff & The Night Sweats Top Adult Alternative Airplay With ‘Call Me (Whatever You Like)’
[Billboard] Rateliff now has six leaders with the Night Sweats and one solo. By Kevin Rutherford Nathaniel Rateliff & the Night Sweats ascend to No. 1 on Billboard’s Adult Alternative Airplay chart dated Dec. 7 with “Call Me (Whatever You Like).” Band leader Rateliff now boasts seven Adult Alternative Airplay leaders overall – six with the Night Sweats and one, ...
Brittany Howard, Jake Xerxes Fussell on The New Yorker’s Best Albums of 2024 List
[The New Yorker] By Amanda Petrusich 14. “What Now” Brittany Howard If anyone is presently poised to inherit Prince’s mantle, it’s Brittany Howard, the former front woman of the indefinitely sidelined Southern rock band Alabama Shakes. Howard is a visionary; she can write an earworm, but is more interested in work that melts the boundaries between genres. “What ...
Review: Dawn Richard & Spencer Zahn’s ‘Quiet in a World Full of Noise’
[Pitchfork] By Linnie Greene The singer and composer scale down their collaboration for a grief-saturated set of songs filled with austere piano melodies and diaristic reflections. Grief saturates Dawn Richard & Spencer Zahn’s Quiet in a World Full of Noise, as integral to the record’s beauty as ghosts are to a gothic novel’s tone. The air between ...
Frank Black Talks ‘Revenge Tour,’ ‘Teenager of the Year’ Anniversary
[Rolling Stone] Thirty years after the release of his “big, pompous” second solo album, Pixies frontman is reviving his solo career to give it its due, finally By Kory Grow In the early Eighties, Charles Thompson was such a swell, upstanding, likable young man that his high school teachers recognized him with “a funny little dinky ...