The glorious noise of Sonic Youth’s Diamond Seas

Plundered and orchestrated by John Oswald, Sonic Youth’s opus takes on an even more cacophonous configuration.

REVIEWS

The Beatles shine a welcome light on their process with Anthology 4
Running from their first album to their final sessions, Anthology 4 helps to fill the gaps in the Beatles' incredible story.

Robert Plant travels down another dusty road with Saving Grace
Plant once again chooses the road less traveled to curate a hypnotic 10-song set.

Ty Segall’s one-man aesthetic gets some satisfying adornments on Possession
Segall returns with another record founded on his ability to overdub himself with ease, but goes a step further with some final flourishes.

Wet Leg returns on Moisturizer, ready to fight
Wet Leg's second album confirms that their brilliant debut was no fluke.

VOICES

Leaping back to Jeff Buckley’s café days at Sin-é
Jeff Buckley's sets in that tiny New York café seem to exist outside of any conventional time.

25 years into the next 20th century with Father John Misty
A quarter of the way through these 100 years, things feel eerily the same. That's where the music kicks in.

There’s a meanness, and there’s a reason to believe: scattered thoughts on Bruce Springsteen and Nebraska
Bruce Springsteen's moment of solitary brilliance has resonated on long beyond its original 1982 release.

Page and Plant traveled from Great Britain to Africa on No Quarter
In 1994, Jimmy Page and Robert Plant endeavored to take Led Zeppelin's music to new places. It took a while for those efforts to be appreciated.

CONCERT REPORTS

Queens of the Stone Age’s dark reverie comes to life on their Catacombs tour
Dragging their Alive in the Catacombs set above ground, Josh Homme and company put together a night unlike any other in the rock world.

Supergrass brings the strange ones back together in Boston
The band closed their I Should Coco tour in style, like the past 30 years had just breezed by.

The Who, with ragged and reckless abandon, bid goodbye to Boston
Pete Townshend and Roger Daltrey rally one more time for a show-stopping finale at Fenway Park.

Dropping the leash and chasing the dragon with Pearl Jam in Atlanta
Making another trip to see the band led to a great time in the city and one of the more notable nights in this band's recent history.