Meet Davina Michelle

With several No. 1 hits already in her native Holland, Davina’s second album, Higher, released last September, is taking her global. It’s a beautiful record, blending pop with a sharp…

ALL ABOARD THE TREN DE ARAGUA

For the first time since 1916 when Pancho ‘La Cucaracha’ Villa and hundreds of revolutionary gangbangers (los Villistas) stormed the southern border to sack the New Mexico town of Columbus,…

We’re New Here – Case Oats

“I wanted to write a coming-of-age novel and I made an album instead,” says Casey Walker, fulcrum of Chicago’s lustrous alt.country newcomers Case Oats. Their upcoming debut Last Missouri Exit…

The Shirley Manson Manifesto

On May 21, 1998, I saw Garbage at what used to be The Palace in Hollywood. I wasn’t there for Garbage—I came for the opener, bizarrely, Talvin Singh—but I left…

The Best Albums of 1995 (According to Us)

Smack dab in the middle of the final decade before the millennium—when some truly believed the world would end—chaos and catastrophe marked a year of strong attempts towards peace and…