[Pitchfork] By Hattie Lindert On Friday (May 8), Phoebe Bridgers performed her first live solo show in three years at the Liberty, a 400-capacity theater in Roswell, New Mexico. During the no-phones-allowed performance, Bridgers reportedly played favorites including “Motion Sickness,” “Kyoto,” and “Garden Song,” as well as multiple new songs and a video short previewing her forthcoming (but ...

[Stereogum] By Tom Breihan Kurt Wagner's Nashville-based indie project Lambchop has been going in one form or another since 1986, and it's been responsible for some devastating music over the years. Today, Wagner announces plans to follow Lambchop's 2022 album The Bible with a new one that has the beautifully evocative title Punching The Clown. Almost since its beginnings, ...

[Brooklyn Vegan] “Hi, we’re a band called Sugar,” Bob Mould told the packed house at Webster Hall on Saturday night. “It’s been a little bit since our last show.” That’s putting it mildly — this was Sugar’s first show in 31 years — but Bob was running around the stage, spinning like it was 1994. Mould, bassist David Barbe and ...

[New York Times] More than 250 music insiders and six New York Times critics weighed in on who defines the new American songbook. Here, in an unranked list, are the artists they chose. Whatever anybody means about a song’s texture turns tactile with Lucinda Williams. Sweat salt. Ice crunch. Oyster grit. Matches. Grease (bacon, engine, ...