By: Josh Kitchen / December 28, 2025 Photo Credit: Ashley Osborn Weyes Blood's 2022’s And In the Darkness, Hearts Aglow  is a truly immense record—a multi-storied world that provides endless of solitude, respite, wonder, and that titular fiery, burning glow. It’s a deeply satisfying set of songs, offering a kind of refuge you can return to again and again. Like 2019’s Titanic Rising , Hearts Aglow   is a record where Weyes Blood , aka Natalie Mering , spends every track fle

By: Josh Kitchen / December 22, 2025 Face-melting solos, bone-breaking riffs, perfectly timed and meticulously planned chords and fret decisions. (Or at least they’d have you believe they were.) One of the year’s best movies features a real-life blues legend guitar hero. There was a lot of insanely good guitar playing in 2025. Here are some of the best, with insights straight from the players’ mouths. Goodbye - Tchotchke (Emily Tooraen) Photo by: Kelsey Hart My favorite solo

By: Josh Kitchen / December 9, 2025 Quiet rage, a thirst for art in a time of great political strife and unrest, finding love, community, and life through body, motion, and dance and in resistance. It's in these themes and ideas that the music of 2025 has come to solidify. From ROSALIA's aching yearning for beauty and love through pain by way of Vivaldian opera-pop, to Geese's alt-rock sins of their fathers bursting through in absolution and rage, to Japanese Breakfast's come

By: Josh Kitchen / July 2, 2025 Photo courtesy of Tchotchke Doe-eyed Dolly has her parents fooled, Cryin’ Crissy is crying because the...

By: Josh Kitchen / June 27, 2025 For over a quarter of a century, the Bruce faithful have held out hope that an epic second set of...

By: Josh Kitchen / June 6, 2025 "Missing" directed by Stephanie Jane Day, produced by Badlands “What kind of man gets his kicks from...

By: Josh Kitchen / May 24, 2025 He's so Julia. The man has many names. Robert Zimmerman, Lucky Wilbury, Jack Frost, Blind Boy Grunt—you...

By: Josh Kitchen / May 23, 2025 It seems like the world has finally caught on to Sparks. The Mael Brothers, Ronald and Russell, have...

By: Josh Kitchen / April 1, 2025 Updated April 3 Follow Setlist Kitchen on Instagram for more Bruce updates: https://www.instagram.com/se...

By: Josh Kitchen / March 25, 2025 "I need motion/part the ocean/walk us through/crescent moon," Carriers' Curt Kiser sings on his soaring...

By: Josh Kitchen / March 24, 2025 Photo Credit: Cloudy Thoughts: @cloudyytots If like me, you were completely horrified by the shocking...

By: Josh Kitchen / March 14, 2025 2025 is almost 25% over (thank God!) and the best part of this shitty year has been the tunes, so here...

By: Josh Kitchen, January 23, 2025 Photo courtesy of James Duran @deathbyjames If you've been lucky enough to see Niis (pronounced like...

By: Josh Kitchen / December 10, 2024 brat Summer! Cowboy Carter Spring! Magdalena Bay Fall! Father John Kendrick Winter! 2024 in my...

By: Josh Kitchen / May 10, 2024 “It’s my favorite song I’ve written, and I feel very lucky that my real life high school best friend...

By: Josh Kitchen / April 15, 2024 A lot can happen in five years. Back in the year 2019, things were pretty bad, but little did we know...

March 8, 2024 / By: Josh Kitchen “He Loves Me Yeah!” is not the most sophisticated song on Faye Webster’s superb fifth album,...

March 8, 2024 / By: Josh Kitchen St. Vincent is back. Annie Clark’s seventh studio album, All Born Screaming is out on April 26 from...

March 8, 2024 / By: Josh Kitchen When Angel Olsen stopped by Jonathan Wilson’s studio recently and heard Grace Cummings’ vocals on her...

March 8, 2024 / By: Josh Kitchen The Last Dinner Party's brilliant debut album, Prelude to Ecstasy begins with an Aaron Coplandesque...