Jacob Hyman

Some bands make a career of striving toward the new: new sounds, new techniques, new combinations, new instruments. Few bands live in the ...

It's funny how quickly a judgment can be turned on its head. After 2006's The Crane Wife, I had all but dismissed The Decemberists...

As a music semi-journalist, there's a clause in the contract with myself that says I am required to write a "best of" blog for...

I have made it abundantly clear how much I admire, respect, and enjoy the music of Coldplay and hyperpretentious frontman, Chris Martin. Th...

I approached last night's Iron & Wine show like any other: with a hypercritical mind full of skepticism that Sam Beam and co. could ...