retrospect

Animal Collective’s strange and sublime Strawberry Jam turns 10 this week. Even for a band as willfully experimental and consistently eclectic as this, the album stands out as an abrasive anomaly in their discography. It’s a deliberate…

Fifty years of one James Marshall Hendrix, and what can we possibly add to the conversation that hasn’t already been said? Haven’t critics, fans, guitarists, songwriters, producers, and fanatical cultists gushed enough? Absolutely not, and…