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Welcome to the 2016 Talkies, Talkhouse Music’s year-end writers poll. We reached out to our amazing stable of contributors — all of them are, of course, musicians — and asked them to rank their ten favorite records of 2016. The results of the poll are...

Part two of my annual round-up 2014 is what I consider to have been the best albums of the year – those that have stood out most from that which I’ve listened to. As usual, there’s been plenty of good-to-downright-great releases, each and every one of...

Dead Oceans What is it about year-end albums lists that drives people to actually loathe music? Is it the numbing sameness of the lists? Is it the arrogance of declaring something “best” in a field as vast and impossible to traverse as popular music...

There are about a million words that a listener would use to describe the music Wild Nothing makes before they got to “angry” or “rebellious.” But on November 9, Jack Tatum and his band ripped through their typically serene setlist with a sense of urgency...

Bill Wright Album: Liars - Mess For 15 years, Liars have been tweaking, reworking, and pivoting their sound.  But if there is one thing that has remained consent over the years, it’s that they always been a little weird. Their front man is even named...