A couple of months ago, Massive Attack announced that they were joining the massive wave of artists removing their catalogs from Spotify, citing CEO Daniel Ek’s investment of $700 million in the AI military startup Helsing. At the time, the duo wrote, “The economic burden that has long been placed on artists is now compounded […]

Last year, the Softies released their long-awaited reunion album. The duo of Tiger Trap’s Rose Melberg and Pretty Face’s Jen Sbragia started making hushed, intimate music together in 1994, and they released a handful of LPs before breaking up in 2000. Last year, the duo returned with The Bed I Made, their first album in […]

Look at those adorable young men up there. That’s the version of Drive-By Truckers that existed in 2003, when the band released the classic 2003 album Decoration Day. Back then, a very young Jason Isbell was in the band. He was one of their three songwriters. Isbell didn’t write anywhere near as many Decoration Day […]