The Car is in every way a sequel to Tranquility Base Hotel & Casino, the 2018 album that found Alex Turner pushing Arctic Monkeys in the direction his side project Last Shadow Puppets pursued. Louche and lugubrious, The Car is rife with signifiers of a stylish, seedy past: wah-wah guitars, swelling cinematic strings, tinkling ivories, and analog synths. But What's missing? Newsly app http://newsly.me promo code: RBRMUS
Oct 31, 2022•1 hr 3 min•Season 2Ep. 1
There's no overestimating the importance of Screamadelica, the record that brought acid house, techno, and rave culture crashing into the British mainstream. Newsly app https://newsly.me promo code: RBRMUS
Aug 29, 2022•36 min•Season 1Ep. 15
Throughout his career as an R&B revivalist, Eli "Paperboy" Reed has centered his attention on the soul made in the back half of the 1960s and the early years of the '70s -- He now takes on the Merle Haggard songbook.
Aug 11, 2022•31 min•Season 1Ep. 14
Nearly three decades into his career, Gallagher retains a slight edge to his voice; he remains a rock & roll star, the kind who turns generic material into something worth a listen.
Jul 18, 2022•28 min•Season 1Ep. 13
Merging wiry post-punk minimalism with a dry and sometimes abstract wit, Leeds based Yard Act have built a devoted audience. Their full-length debut, Overload, gets the RBR.Music teams attention this episode.
Jun 27, 2022•21 min•Season 1Ep. 12
White Jesus Black Problems is a tightly constructed collection of funky contemporary blues as it tells a story of forbidden love in the 1750s.
Jun 13, 2022•21 min•Season 1Ep. 11
Few double albums, have been so rich and masterful as Exile on Main St. and it stands not only as one of the Stones' best records, but sets a remarkably high standard for all of rock.
Jun 02, 2022•21 min•Season 1Ep. 10
For five albums now, the songwriter born Joshua Tillman has been the nihilistic jester of indie folk, sweetly crooning comedic takedowns of love, heartbreak and the human race. But where does the RBR team rate Chloë And The Next 20th Century?
May 18, 2022•17 min•Season 1Ep. 9
Orville Peck's image as the glamorous and subversive masked man of country music in the grand show biz tradition, puts the spotlight firmly on a genuine talent, and Bronco is a glorious achievement that fulfills Peck's promise as a performer and then some.
May 03, 2022•22 min•Season 1Ep. 8
Unlimited Love finds the Chili Peppers in jam-band mode, focusing more on sonic moods, surreal lyricism, and the journey itself, not a mainstream hit-fest like turn-of-the-millennium smashes Californication or By the Way but is Unlimited Love worth the hype?
Apr 19, 2022•17 min•Season 1Ep. 7
Sometimes Y is a bold and intoxicating rock and roll hybrid, one that fuses past and future sounds. The songs on the album are as addictive as they are unpredictable, mixing ’80s bombast and arena rock energy with country earnestness and hip-hop swagger
Apr 05, 2022•17 min•Season 1Ep. 6
Multifaceted post-punk group Black Country, New Road pull together genres including jazz and art rock, to form sprawling tracks that switch between quieter moments and peaks of bristling intensity. They debuted in 2021 with their Mercury Prize-nominated album For the First Time, before quickly following it up with 2022's Ants from Up There, which we discuss here.
Mar 23, 2022•25 min•Season 1Ep. 5
The Lumineers Embrace a more spontaneous approach on their 2022 album Brightside; the Denver indie folk duo lets their fun side show on a record that values the creative spark above all else.
Mar 09, 2022•23 min•Season 1Ep. 4
English trio London Grammar combine sparse electronic pop in the model of the xx with lead singer Hannah Reid's dramatic, soulful vocals evoking Annie Lennox and contemporaries like Florence Welch and Natasha Khan of Bat for Lashes. Hear the Rbr.music team chat about their 2021 third album Californian Soil.
Feb 23, 2022•28 min•Season 1Ep. 3
The RBR team discuss a guitarist whose music is based in the blues but also reflects the influence of rock, R&B and hip-hop, Christone "Kingfish" Ingram was just 20 years old when he released his first album and has already earned a reputation after being cited as a talent to watch by a number of respected rock and blues artists.
Feb 09, 2022•32 min•Season 1Ep. 2
We discuss GA-20's covers album of the late great Hound Dog Taylor; It's genuine house Rockin music.
Jan 26, 2022•29 min•Season 1Ep. 1
