Like thousands of other music lovers, I, too, was entranced by the invasion of “Creep” by Radiohead in 1993. But like everyone else, I also became sick of it, and chalked Radiohead up to another post-grunge Nirvana wannabe.
Until I heard The Bends.
Radiohead’s second release picked me off the floor by my ears, slapped me upside [...]

Maria McKee is best known for being the lead singer of Lone Justice, an alt-country band of the 1980s that had a small hit with “Shelter.” McKee herself had a No. 1 single in the UK with “Show Me Heaven” from the Days of Thunder soundtrack.
Her first two solo albums continued the cowpunk style of [...]

Every so often, in a state of anxiety, I’ll wonder if, like oil, melodies are a finite resource and that we’ll soon run out of them. And judging from the lawsuits arising from hip-hop’s unauthorized uses of riffs and snippets of other songs, you wonder if that day is quickly looming
Then you hear Calling Distance [...]