High Road Touring

[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 ...

[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 ...

On the new album “Evergreen,” the artist Sophie Allison makes sadness come alive and transform. [The New Yorker] By Hanif Abdurraqib The earliest iteration of Soccer Mommy emerged out of a bedroom in the summer of 2015, with a handful of lo-fi, home-recorded songs posted to Bandcamp. The songs were sparse and built around acoustic guitar, ...

By Jim Ryan [Forbes] “It’s Friday night in Chicago. You can do better than that!” teased The The frontman Matt Johnson on stage last week during a rare stateside appearance at the Salt Shed in Chicago. “Today, you get two sets for the price of one. And we call set one ‘the listening set,’” he explained. “We ...