With stellar songwriting, crisp but heavy production, and roadkill vocals, the Burden Brothers prove that rock can still rock.

Unlike most people I know in the music industry, Passman doesn't think it's broken.

On first listen it seems self-conscious, as if the band had deliberately set out to make an Important Record.

Constitutional bans on gay marriage are last-ditch, extreme attempts to shore up a rapidly weakening point of view.

Love, death, and interior decorating create a worthwhile evening of theater, enlivened by inspired performances, sharp dialogue, and depth of thought.

It's suburban chill music for the post-American Beauty generation.

Who better than a master songwriter-dude to lay it out so even your confused female minds can understand it?

No shoegazers need apply - only happy music reviewed this week.

Maeve McGuire plays Gertrude as a real mother rather than a psychological construct.

Knight blasts the unfairness of life through stories of small-town and rural hopes and dashed dreams.