The Monday Morning Brew #145
This week’s Monday Morning Brew features music from Aldous Harding, Josienne Clarke, Chris Brain & Natalie Wildgoose, Bonnie “Prince” Billy and Natalie Jane Hill alongside selections from Shana Cleveland, Nora Brown, Cass McCombs, Marissa Nadler, Nadia Reid, Joan Shelley, Erin Rae and more. Highlights include Brain’s Yorkshire Dales-inspired Big Hill, Clarke’s spartan reimagining of Katie […]
Musical treasures collected by late Indianapolis Colts owner up for auction
The late Jim Irsay built one of the great collections of musical artifacts. His family is now auctioning it off, including instruments played by The Beatles, Nirvana, Eric Clapton and Bob Dylan. Nathalie Ferneau {NAT-ah-lee fer-NO} from Christie’s previews the auction.
‘Even when the world is collapsing, life continues’: the return of indietronica legends the Notwist
The Bavarian band known for a love of tinkering embraced a fresh ethos, ditching remote collaboration for a collective recording done in a week ‘It all went so fast,” Markus Acher says. “We’ve never been this fast at making a record.” He is sitting at the far end of a sofa in the Notwist’s Munich […]
The best old music we discovered this year
Strange folk, lost pop, disco oddities and, um, Dido – here are the forgotten tracks that became this year’s most replayed revelations• The 50 best albums of 2025• More on the best culture of 2025 I grew up listening to the Mamas and the Papas’ hits but had never heard their albums before this year. […]
Zach Top: George Strait and Randy Travis Had to “Save Country Music”
Fresh off his win for Best Traditional Country Album at the 2026 Grammy Awards, Zach Top had some great insight into this moment in country music from his perspective as an artist. Right now the signal is a little noisy on just where the country genre sits at the moment. Morgan Wallen is still indisputably […]
New Adds to Saving Country Music’s Top 25 Current Playlist (#173)
If you only pay attention, interact, or share one thing from Saving Country Music, make it be this playlist. It’s all about boiling it all down to the songs, artists, and albums that are saving country music right here, right now. Braxton Keith – “I Own This Bar” – Braxton continues to build a strong case […]