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And Metal for All
Metallica, Tourniquet and My Lifelong Love of All Things Heavy
November 6, 2018

Church Music
Recent Missives from Another World
October 30, 2018

Rosa and Neneh
And Our Broken Politics
October 23, 2018

Best Brits Over 50
With Doctor Who, Elvis Costello and Richard Thompson
October 16, 2018

Maybe Just Now I Don’t Understand
Tim Chandler, 1960-2018
October 9, 2018

I Feel the Earth Move
Music for Uncertain Times
October 2, 2018

For Crying Out Loud
Adam Again, the 77s and the Raw Pain of Real Life
September 25, 2018

I Missed Again
Two Great Records that Nearly Got By Me
September 18, 2018

The Gospel According to Paul (and Paul)
McCartney and Simon and the Enduring Urge to Create
September 11, 2018

The Neverending ’90s
AiC and 3EB Prove Their Staying Power
September 4, 2018

In My Blood
On 30-Plus Years of Loving Neil Finn
August 28, 2018

Death, Death Cab and Rebirth
Or, When 900 Columns You Reach, Look This Good You Will Not
August 21, 2018

Chip Z’Nuff Goes It Alone
Is Diamond Boy Enuff?
August 14, 2018

Feel the Flood Fall In
My Report from the Prayer Chain Reunion Show
August 7, 2018

Just One More
You Don't Need to Break Ground to Build
July 31, 2018

Heavy With a Twist
New Metal Albums Rewriting the Rulebook
July 24, 2018

The Choir’s Hat Trick
Three New Records Tell the Story of One Extraordinary Band
July 17, 2018

Reasons to Be Cheerful
A Look Ahead at Summer's Bounty
July 10, 2018

A More Thoughtful Way to Go
Florence and Dawes Take the High Road on Lovely New Records
July 3, 2018

Thank Heaven for Little Records
New Tunes in 30 Minutes or Less
June 26, 2018

Now Playing
What I Listened to on My Two-Week Break
June 19, 2018

The Prequel and the Sequel
Von Strantz Takes Us Through the Looking Glass
May 29, 2018

New England in the Summer
Ray LaMontagne and Darlingside and the Prettiest Music You'll Hear All Year
May 22, 2018

The Moon is In the Water, the Sun is On the Rise
Digging Deep with The Choir's Bloodshot
May 15, 2018

Like a Lighthouse I Will Shine
Frank Turner Hopes We Can Be More Kind
May 8, 2018

This is Me
Janelle Monae Bares Herself on the Great Dirty Computer
May 1, 2018

Some Weeks You Just Have to Get Through
Sting and Shaggy Mark a Pretty Rough Seven Days
April 24, 2018

Three Women
And Three Really Good New Albums
April 17, 2018

Episode XII: Return of the Enduring
The Gentle Art of Keeping Things Interesting
April 10, 2018

I Am Jack’s Complete Lack of Cohesion
White's Boarding House Reach is a Mess
April 3, 2018

Volunteering as Tribute
Nada Surf Receives, Meshell Ndegeocello Gives
March 27, 2018

Keys to the Kingdom
Exploring the Ebonies and Ivories on Three New Records
March 20, 2018

The Kid Gets Heavy
Metal, That Is, with Between the Buried and Me and Deliverance
March 13, 2018

I’m With Them
Three New Records from Some of My Favorite Women
March 6, 2018

In Pieces
Reading Great New Records a Chapter at a Time
February 27, 2018

Men of the Woods
Timberlake Fakes It, Mallonee Lives It
February 20, 2018

Brought to You by the Letter F
February's Finds: Franz, Fallon, Field and Frank
February 13, 2018

Not the Usual Voices
Listener Refines and the Bad Plus Regenerates
February 6, 2018

Moving Forward and Standing Still
Tune-Yards Innovate While the Shins Stagnate
January 30, 2018

The Year Gets Underway
2018's First Great Records With They Might Be Giants and First Aid Kit
January 22, 2018

Ghosts of 2017
Eminem, Esperanza and the Oh Hellos
January 16, 2018

18 Reasons to Love 2018
Why This Will Be the Best Year Ever
January 9, 2018

Fifty Second Week
And Farewell to 2017
December 26, 2017

If Your Eyes Can See What’s Killing Me I’ll Need You By the End
The 2017 Top 10 List
December 19, 2017

Here Comes Christmas
Hanson and Tom Chaplin Lead the Yuletide Treasures of 2017
December 12, 2017

Next Door to the World
Local Songwriter Greg Boerner and the Biggest Band on Earth
December 5, 2017

Bjork and the Brothers
New Ones From a Brilliant Lady and Two Rowdy Lads
November 28, 2017

The Final Flight of Miss Sharon Jones
Saying Goodbye to a Soul Icon
November 21, 2017

Pledging for Beauty
Robert Deeble and Sara Groves Deliver
November 14, 2017

The Year Goes Down
A January Album Lights a Dark Winter
November 7, 2017

Look Around, Leaves Are Brown
From Summer to Winter with Weezer and Julien Baker
October 31, 2017

Where’s Our Rocket Packs?
Scandroid Makes a Return Trip to the '80s
October 24, 2017

Sensational Shape Shifters
Beck, Clark, Plant and the Value of Constant Change
October 17, 2017

Staring Into the Void with Fingers Crossed
Derek Webb's searing, powerful, painful new record
October 10, 2017

Into the Great Wide Open
Tom Petty, 1950-2017
October 3, 2017

Burn the Woods, Burn Them Slow
Marah in the Mainsail's Terrific Dark Fairy Tale
September 26, 2017

The Rowdiest Bands at the Old Folks Home
Rock and Roll Isn't Dead, But It Is Pretty Old
September 19, 2017

I Want to Believe
But Tori Amos' New Album is a Letdown
September 12, 2017

When the World Comes In
Neil Finn's Communal, Beautiful New Record
September 5, 2017

Turn Off Your Mind
Relax and Float Downstream
August 29, 2017

Buying Air
How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Downloads... Sometimes
August 22, 2017

Finding You
Kesha's Bold, Revelatory Return
August 15, 2017

Writers in the Sky
Randy Newman and Dan Wilson Show Us How It's Done
August 8, 2017

The Good, the Bad and the Pretty
Finally Some New Music Reviews
August 1, 2017

Why is Everything So Heavy?
Chester Bennington, 1976-2017
July 25, 2017

The Music of AudioFeed 2017
Some New Discoveries, Some Old Favorites, Some Great Records
July 18, 2017

Why AudioFeed Matters
The Festival That's Best of All
July 11, 2017

Independence is Overrated
Why I Live for Recommendations
July 4, 2017

Hey June Part Three
It's a Songwriter's Paradise
June 27, 2017

Hey June Part Two
Complicated Games with Fleet Foxes and Sufjan Stevens
June 20, 2017

Hey June Part One
A Ringing Alarm, Rising Waters and a Swell Buzz
June 13, 2017

The Art of Selling Out?
Linkin Park Confounds on One More Light
May 30, 2017

Fell on Black Days
Chris Cornell, 1964-2017
May 23, 2017

Four-Color Fantasies
Gorillaz and Jonathan Coulton Get Graphic
May 16, 2017

A Slight Pause Whilst We Catch Up
Take a Breath, Look to the Future
May 9, 2017

Full/Empty
Living Through Grief with Sufjan Stevens and Phil Elverum
May 2, 2017

Hoping for the Best
On Kendrick Lamar and Giving a Damn
April 25, 2017

Don’t Make Them Wait For It
Quiet Company Gives Us the Music Now and Later
April 18, 2017

The Form, It Is Returned To
The New Pornographers and Peter Mulvey Come Back Swinging
April 11, 2017

Doing What You Do
Aimee Mann's Best Imitation of Herself
April 4, 2017

Life and Death
The Magnetic Fields and Noah Gabriel Get Existential
March 28, 2017

Synthesized, I Want You Synthesized
Behind the Boards with Spoon, Bazan and Anohni
March 21, 2017

It’s Been a Long Time
The Much-Anticipated Returns of Grandaddy and the Shins
March 14, 2017

Brought to You by the Letter S
Silberman, Son Volt and Suicide Silence
March 7, 2017

It’s All Too Much
Drowning With the 77s in Sight
February 28, 2017

Cuts Like a Knife
Ryan Adams Delivers a Heartbroken Return to Form
February 21, 2017

Adapt and Survive
Andrew McMahon and Ace Enders Show Us How It's Done
February 14, 2017

That Was the Month That Was
Five New Albums from the Last 30 Days
February 7, 2017

Circles, Cells and Scandroids
How Klayton Scored Himself the Best Year Ever
January 31, 2017

Looking for the Light
Pain of Salvation's Grand Ode to Perseverance
January 24, 2017

Living in Discworld
Where Love of Physical Media Meets Fear of Missing Out
January 17, 2017

17 Reasons to Love 2017
Brave Heart, Friends, Brave Heart
January 10, 2017

Fifty Second Week
And Farewell to 2016
December 27, 2016

Our Wide Eyes Aren’t Naive
The 2016 Top 10 List
December 20, 2016

Honorables and Also-Rans
The Not-Quite-But-So-Close Top 10 List
December 13, 2016

December Surprises
Late-Year Winners from John Legend and Kate Bush
December 6, 2016

In the Bleak Mid-Winter
Comfort and Joy from Christmas Music
November 29, 2016

Good Grief
Music as Therapy and Remembrance
November 22, 2016

There is a Crack in Everything
That's How the Light Gets In
November 15, 2016

Voice of Hope
Tom Chaplin Crawls Back to the Light
November 8, 2016

a column by andre salles