The Young are a practically un-Googleable fourpiece from Austin, and Dub Egg, their second fulllength, is sweet, heavy, and sticky—like barbecue sauce under a hot Texas sun.
Everything about Lissy Trullie screams rock ’n’ roll chic: She’s a former model and Manhattan party fixture whose foxy androgyny is tailor-made for the cover of an album.
“I want to be dead with my friends!” Keith Buckley screams on Every Time I Die’s sixth album, and it’s a pretty fair assessment of the Buffalo band’s doomy bipolarity.
The combustion engine that fueled Oasis from their mid-nineties heyday through their muted, midaughts denouement was the enmity between brothers Noel (the songs) and Liam (the voice) Gallagher.
While American Idol has rarely lived up to its lofty title—good luck finding Taylor Hicks— its country cousin, Nashville Star, has at least produced the genuine article.