The Alternative Album Chart: The best new indie albums this week
A dazzling array of releases this week.
Music Archives: 10/2023
‘Before You Gotta Go’: The track Courtney Barnett track doesn’t want to call a “breakup song”
Barnett on ‘Before You Gotta Go’.
Anne Pigalle discusses Ecstase, Madame Sex, and the magic at the heart of Soho
Pigalle’s stories are enough to fill multiple books.
Carole King and Paul Simon’s incredible college connection
Carole King first met Paul Simon as a teenager and they became musical collaborators.
Eilert Pilarm: Sweden’s beloved imperfect Elvis Presley impersonator
“Elvis is Elvis, I cannot imitate that voice.”
The Rolling Stones song Mick Jagger called “punk”
The Stones frontman has always had a soft spot for the genre.
The Murder of the Lawson Family: the true events behind folk music’s scariest murder ballad
The real crime behind folk’s darkest song.