Polly Jean Harvey’s biggest strength is her restlessness: She’s been an abrasive punk, a wailing blues siren, eerie glitch-pop sorceress, and solo pianist. Executing each with such ease, the chameleon makes every turn sound exactly like what she should be doing. ![PJ Harvey and Seamus Murphy](/content/images/…
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Rough Trade: How a Record Label Defined an Era
Having barely survived a few tumultuous decades and outlasted more than one era of popular music, London’s Rough Trade [http://www.roughtrade.com/] label now finds itself successful and surprisingly unabsorbed into the corporate apparatus of the majors. It also shares a name, a history, and a set of…
R.E.M.’s ‘Out of Time’ Turns 25
Put on R.E.M. [http://www.rhapsody.com/artist/rem]‘s 1991 album Out of Time [http://www.rhapsody.com/artist/rem/album/out-of-time]— a post-collegiate 25 years old today — and in less than three minutes you’ll be transported to a time when fans could take a band…
South By Southwest 2016 Preview
As always, Austin, Texas’ gargantuan South By Southwest festival is too big for you — even if you eschew the opening four days of movies. (Don’t think that will be easy just because you’re a music fan; screening this year are The Art of Organized Noize, Goodnight Brooklyn — The…
Miike Snow: Giving Pop the Cold Shoulder
Here’s a question that can tell you a lot about an artist: What’s your day job? Until you hit the big time — which these days is the point when you no longer need to have a day job — the work you do for food and shelter tints your…
The 1975’s Sprawling, Ambitious ‘I Like It When You Sleep’
Like itsdebut,The 1975 [http://www.rhapsody.com/artist/1975]‘sI Like It When You Sleep, For You Are So Beautiful, Yet So Unaware Of It [http://www.rhapsody.com/1975/i-like-it-when-you-sleep-for-you-are-so-beautiful-yet-so-una-explicit] opens with a minute-plus self-titled overture — a slow welling of synths and Matt Healy’s Mancunian purr. But…