High Road Touring

[NPR] By Lars Gotrich Beth Gibbons‘ voice can cleave your heart in half and heal it back together. Whether fronting Portishead, singing Henryk Górecki‘s Symphony of Sorrowful Songs or guesting on a Kendrick Lamar track, Gibbons’ frail, yet resilient timbre acts as reassurance that our aching world is worth loving and fighting for. To experience that voice is humbling; up close, ...

[Stereogum] By Abby Jones Though “Doctor Worm” never appeared on any of They Might Be Giants’ studio albums, the 1998 single has become one of the band’s signature songs. Over 25 years after the music video debuted on Nickelodeon’s KaBlam!, they performed it on Jimmy Kimmel Live Tuesday night, in celebration of last year’s live album Beast Of Horns. Watch the very ...

[Paste Magazine] Q&A: Jess Wolfe and Holly Laessig talk with Paste about re-recording their 2014 masterpiece Wildewoman, finding each other again after making Second Nature, working with Adam Granduciel and Madison Cunningham, and their eponymous new album. By Matt Mitchell Maybe you’ve heard Lucius harmonizing the titular chorus in Harry Styles’ “Treat People With Kindness,” or tweaking their singing into celestial patches in ...

[Pitchfork] By Daniel Felsenthal 8.0 The Nashville guitarist’s latest album is an act of reckoning: Collaging together found sounds and field recordings with his own fingerpicking, it feels like an elegy for a nation in free fall. American instrumental guitarists often conjure sprawling frontiers, but those visions can confine them. William Tyler, among the tradition’s preeminent 21st ...

[FLOOD Magazine] The NYC-based project’s second album delights in its confident sense of chaos, with vocalist Cole Haden knowing full well there’s no way we’re going to avert our gaze for a single moment. Words: Matty Pywell Model/ActrizPirouetteTRUE PANTHERABOVE THE CURRENT Model/Actriz aren’t the type of band who are going to make you feel comfortable. The New ...